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Bristol-Myers Squibb announces dividend

10 December 2014 | By Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

The Board of Directors of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company declared a quarterly dividend of thirty-seven cents ($0.37) per share on the $.10 par value Common Stock of the corporation...

New follow-up data for IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib) presented at ASH show longer term efficacy in patients with chronic lymphocytic Leukaemia and mantle cell lymphoma

10 December 2014 | By Janssen

Janssen-Cilag International NV (Janssen) is pleased to announce the presentation of new longer term follow-up data from two IMBRUVICA® (ibrutinib) studies at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) meeting in San Francisco, CA. IMBRUVICA is a first-in-class, once-daily, oral Bruton’s tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor.

Pricing for new drugs lacks transparency

10 December 2014 | By The Royal Society of Medicine

The system that allows patients rapid access to expensive new treatments lacks transparency and penalises small and low-income countries unable to negotiate lower prices with pharmaceutical manufacturers...

Roche presents data for hemophilia A therapy ACE910

9 December 2014 | By Roche

Roche presented data from a first-in-patient study of the novel humanised bispecific antibody ACE910 (RG6013) in hemophilia A patients during the 56th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting...

Scottish Medicines Consortium accepts use of Alimta (pemetrexed) for treatment of non-small cell lung cancer

9 December 2014 | By Eli Lilly and Company

On 8th December 2014, the Scottish Medicines Consortium accepted for use within NHS Scotland Alimta (pemetrexed) monotherapy for the maintenance treatment of locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (other than predominantly squamous cell histology) in patients whose disease has not progressed immediately following platinum-based chemotherapy...