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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...
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...
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...
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...
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)…
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...
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...
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...
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…
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...
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...
The European Commission has approved Roche’s Gazyvaro (obinutuzumab) in combination with bendamustine chemotherapy followed by Gazyvaro maintenance in people with follicular lymphoma.
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...
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...
The EC has approved the subcutaneous formulation of MabThera for people with previously untreated and relapsed/refractory chronic lymphocytic leukaemia...
