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FDA approves Roche’s assay to assess ovarian reserve
10 January 2017 | By Niamh Marriott, Digital Editor
The blood test produces standardised results for assessing ovarian reserve as compared with the use of vaginal ultrasound...
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NICE says Roche’s trastuzumab emtansine too expensive for routine NHS use
29 December 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Editor
Trastuzumab emtansine is currently being funded through the Cancer Drugs Fund (CDF). NICE is looking again at its 2015 guidance to see whether it should...
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Price discount helps give green light for Roche’s breast cancer drug
21 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
A discount to the price of pertuzumab agreed with the company was an important factor in enabling NICE to overturn its earlier provisional decision...
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GSK tops list ranking big pharma’s global access to medicine
14 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Read how the 2016 Access to Medicine Index ranks the top 20 pharmaceutical companies on their efforts to improve access to medicine in low- and middle-income countries...
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Prothena’s Phase 1b Parkinson’s disease study showed robust antibody CNS penetration
11 November 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Prothena’s Phase 1b multiple ascending dose study of PRX002 trial found an acceptable safety and tolerability profile in patients with Parkinson’s disease...
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FDA approves Roche’s immunotherapy assay to support treatment decisions in lung cancer
31 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche’s PD-L1 assay as a diagnostic to identify PD-L1 expression levels in patients considering treatment with Tecentriq (atezolizumab) for previously treated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The PD-L1 (SP142) assay is also indicated to identify patients with urothelial cancer (UC)…
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FDA approves Roche’s blood screening assay for donor screening
24 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The cobas MPX assay enables donor screening laboratories to apply the most advanced PCR-based diagnostic technology to the surveillance of donated blood...
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Roche’s ALK-positive NSCLC drug granted FDA breakthrough designation
4 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
This second alecensa breakthrough therapy designation granted is based on phase 3 J-ALEX study, treat ALK-positive non-small cell lung cancer...
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NICE says Roche’s skin cancer drug not cost effective
6 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
The committee agreed the combination offers life extending benefit compared to vemurafenib alone, however compared to alternative treatments it is too expensive. About 1,000 people would have been eligible each year...
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Roche’s cancer immunotherapy drug has longer OS vs. chemotherapy
1 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Roche’s study for tecentriq (atezolizumab) met its co-primary endpoints and showed a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival (OS) compared with docetaxel chemotherapy in people with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease progressed on or after treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy. Adverse events…
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Blood cancer study yields disappointing results
19 July 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott
Gazyvaro did not meet its primary endpoint of significantly reducing the risk of disease worsening or death in people with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma...
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Ocrevus marketing applications under review by the EMA and FDA
28 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
If approved by the EMA and FDA for both indications, Ocrevus would be the first and only treatment for both forms of multiple sclerosis...
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EC approves Gazyvaro plus bendamustine in follicular lymphoma
The European Commission has approved Roche’s Gazyvaro (obinutuzumab) in combination with bendamustine chemotherapy followed by Gazyvaro maintenance in people with follicular lymphoma.
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Tecentriq to dominate the bladder cancer market, says GlobalData
14 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The launch of Roche’s Tecentriq will usher in a dramatic change in the treatment paradigm of bladder cancer, according to an analyst with GlobalData...
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EC approves Avastin plus Tarceva in NSCLC
8 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
The combination is approved for the first-line treatment of adult patients with non-squamous NSCLC with EGFR-activating mutations...
