18.06.2018
- The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted two more approvals for US Merck’s Keytruda, an anti-PD-1 therapy. In the first, the drug gained its first regulatory clearance...
22.02.2018
- US drugmakerMerck & Co. has agreed to buy Australia’s Viralytics for $394 million, in a deal that will boost its immuno-oncology portfolio. Through the acquisition, which will see...
16.02.2018
- US drugmaker Merck & Co. has said it will halt its APECS randomized, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, double-blind Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of...
05.12.2017
- As a UK Parliament-select committee prepared for a public evidence session on Dec. 5, examining scenarios for trading arrangements with the UK post-Brexit, reports were circulating...
07.11.2017
- Sanofi is pursuing another US competitor for alleged breach of the patent for its top-selling diabetes drug insulin glargine (branded as Lantus and Lantus SoloStar), which together...
24.10.2017
- The US Food and Drug Administration on Oct. 20 approved Shingrix, the long awaited recombinant, adjuvant new shingles vaccine manufactured by UK drugmaker Glaxo SmithKline (GSK)...
12.10.2017
- US drugmaker Merck has agreed to pay KalVista Pharmaceuticals more than $750 million to gain the rights to KVD001, an investigational treatment for diabetic macular edema (DME), as...
14.09.2017
- US drugmaker Merck has announced plans to acquire Germany-based Rigontec, regarded as a pioneer in accessing the retinoic acid-inducible gene I (RIG-I) pathway as a novel and...