Keyword: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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EMA Approves AstraZeneca’s Lung Cancer Drug

08.02.2016 - European regulators have approved a lung cancer drug from UK-Swedish drug maker AstraZeneca. Tagrisso was the first new drug to win accelerated approval by the European Medicines...

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US Gives Merck’s Antitoxin Priority Review

02.02.2016 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted priority review to US drug maker Merck & Co for bezlotoxumab, an antitoxin for preventing the recurrence of Clostridium...

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Breakthrough Status for AstraZeneca Cancer Drug

01.02.2016 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation (BTD) to UK-Swedish drug maker AstraZeneca for its oral poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP)...

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FDA Accepts Valeant-AstraZeneca Psoriasis Application

29.01.2016 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for review the Biologics License Application (BLA) submitted by UK-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca in partnership with Canadian...

Research & Innovation

Route Planner for Research Chemists

29.01.2016 - Time is money; this holds particularly true for drug research and development. The global pharmaceutical industry spends about $100 billion a year on R&D. Researchers are...

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New Immunotherapy Coalition Launched in US

13.01.2016 - Five major internationally active drugmakers, including American biotech firms Amgen and Celgene, along with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and non-US players such as Glaxo SmithKline...

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Merck-Pfizer Alliance Joins Syndax on Ovarian Cancer

07.01.2016 - Germany’s Merck KGaA and Pfizer of the US are collaborating with US biopharmaceutical company Syndax to evaluate a combination of avelumab and entinostat to treat advanced ovarian...

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FDA Bans Three Toxic Food Packaging Chemicals

07.01.2016 - The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will ban three perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) used in food packaging that have been linked to cancer and birth defects. The ban...