Indianapolis, and Ingelheim, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - - Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim Announce Changes to Their Contractual Agreements for Yentreve(R)/AriClaim(R) Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim announced today that the alliance will change the nature of its ...
London, England and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (ots/PRNewswire) - GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) announced today the commencement of a worldwide clinical trial to investigate the safety and efficacy of eltrombopag (SB-497115-GR) as a once-daily orally-administered drug for adult patients with previously-treated ...
Madrid, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) - PharmaMar announced today that its Investigational New Drug application (IND)[1] has been accepted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the clinical testing of Zalypsis(R) (PM00104/50), PharmaMar's novel marine anti-tumour agent. Zalypsis is already in Phase I clinical development in Europe, where three multicenter ...
Davos/Geneva (ots) - On 26 January 2006 the State of Geneva convened a CEO-level meeting on global security in new technologies at the ski resort of Davos on the occasion of the Annual Meeting 2006 of the World Economic Forum. At the event, Pierre Francois Unger, President of the State of Geneva announced that ...
Callisto Pharmaceuticals. Inc.
New York (ots/PRNewswire) - - Drug Class Developed at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Callisto Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Amex: KAL; FWB:CA4), a developer of new drug treatments in the fight against cancer and other major health threats, has announced that it signed an agreement with ...
Bothell, Washington and Indianapolis, Indiana (ots/PRNewswire) - - 2005 Fourth Quarter Net Income Surges to US$61.4 Million - 2005 Worldwide Sales Grow 35% - Company Provides Update on Clinical Plan for BPH Lilly ICOS LLC (Lilly ICOS) (NYSE: LLY and Nasdaq: ICOS) is releasing its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2005. For the 2005 ...
Basel, Switzerland and Morrisville, North Carolina (ots/PRNewswire) - - Early Preclinical Data on TR-291144 and TR-290999 to be Presented at Major HIV Congress in February BASEL, Switzerland and MORRISVILLE, North Carolina, January 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Roche and Trimeris today announced their collaboration ...
Geneva and Singapore (ots/PRNewswire) - STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) and Veredus Laboratories today announced that they are developing a fast, point-of-need diagnostic capability that will enable health practitioners to quickly detect strains of Avian Flu and other influenza viruses. The diagnostic capability, ...
Edmonton, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Isotechnika Inc. announced today that the Company enrolled its first patient in a North American Phase IIb kidney transplant trial for its lead immunosuppressive drug, ISA247, on January 4, 2006. The trial will be performed at thirty-four centers across North America , including twenty-nine centers in the United States and ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Merck KGaA today announced an organizational change in the Merck Generics Group (MGG), naming J. Melville ("Mel") Engle to the post of MGG Regional Director, North America. Mr. Engle will retain his current position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Napa, CA-based DEY, L.P., a Merck subsidiary. (Photo: ...
Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich
Munich, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - A new study published today in the European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience demonstrates that quetiapine (SEROQUEL) and risperidone (RISPERDAL) have equivalent efficacy in the treatment of patients with schizophrenia exhibiting predominately negative symptoms, ...
Alderley Park, England (ots/PRNewswire) - - Filing Seeks Approval of SEROQUEL as a Monotherapy Treatment for Bipolar Depression AstraZeneca today announced submission of a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to seek approval for a new indication for SEROQUEL(R) (quetiapine fumarate) for the treatment of ...
Lyon, France (ots/PRNewswire) - Sanofi pasteur, the vaccines business of the sanofi-aventis Group (EURONEXT: SAN and NYSE: SNY), has entered into an agreement with BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX) to license the Micro-Delivery technology of BD Medical-Pharmaceutical Systems for use in the administration of sanofi pasteur's human vaccine products. ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Power of "FUZEON effect" Provides Much Needed Hope for HIV Patients Facing Treatment Failure Exciting interim data presented at the annual ICAAC(i) conference show that adding FUZEON (enfuvirtide) to the investigational boosted protease inhibitor (PI), TMC114/r, more than doubles the proportion of patients reaching ...
Madrid (ots/PRNewswire) - - IDMC Recommends Adoption of 24hr Dosing in Pivotal Trial PharmaMar today announces that the independent data monitoring committee (IDMC) for the pivotal trial of YONDELIS(R) in Soft Tissue Sarcoma (STS) has reviewed data from a pre-planned interim analysis of the primary end-point, Time to Progression (TTP), which indicate that ...
Lyon, France (ots/PRNewswire) - - Data Show That the Vaccine is Safe, Demonstrates Immunogenicity and Provides Future Direction for Development Sanofi pasteur, the vaccines business of the sanofi-aventis Group, announced today that preliminary results of clinical trials fielded in France of an adjuvanted ...
Alderley Park, England (ots/PRNewswire) - AstraZeneca announced today that it has received positive opinion from the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products (COMP) recommending orphan drug designation for ZD6474 (ZACTIMA(TM)) for the treatment of patients with medullary thyroid cancer in the European Union (EU). ...
Madrid (ots/PRNewswire) - PharmaMar today announces the results of the Aplidin(R) Phase II trial which were presented at the American Society of Hematology 47th Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, on Sunday 11 December. Aplidin reached its objective of overall response rate established in the first stage of ...
Indianapolis (ots/PRNewswire) - Data presented today offer evidence that an investigational targeted therapy may be useful in treating patients with the most common form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL). The five-year survival rate of U.S. patients with NHL is only 59 percent with standard therapies, according to the Lymphoma Research Foundation. Diffuse large ...
Edmonton, Canada (ots/PRNewswire) - Isotechnika Inc. (TSX:ISA) announced today nine month interim safety and efficacy data obtained from its 24 week Phase III psoriasis trial and 12 week extension for its lead immunosuppressive drug, ISA247. Patients completing the 24 week Canadian Phase III SPIRIT trial were given the opportunity to continue therapy for an ...
Macclesfield, England (ots/PRNewswire) - 'New Data Outcomes in Early Breast Cancer: Improving the Odds for Survival' News that could change the landscape for hormonal treatments in postmenopausal women Room: 0001B, River Level, Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, ...
Cephalon, Inc.; Zeneus Holdings Limited
Frazer, Pennsylvania. and Oxford, England (ots/PRNewswire) - - Transaction Opens European Oncology Market for Cephalon; Creates Additional Direct Presence in Europe's Five Major Markets Cephalon, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEPH) and Zeneus Holdings Limited announced today that the companies have signed a definitive purchase agreement under which Cephalon, Inc. will acquire all of the outstanding share capital of Zeneus ...
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (ots/PRNewswire) - - Now has clinical development offices in eight Asia countries Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced the extension of its Asia operations with the opening of an office in Hanoi, Vietnam. "Vietnam is an increasingly important market in the region, with its population of 80 million, a strong educational system and a robust healthcare industry," ...
Zurich (ots) - cablecom has secured an order in Geneva worth CHF 20 million that involves modernization of three cable networks. For 25,000 households in Onex, Lancy and Carouge, the project will provide access to cablecom's triple play service, featuring digital television, broadband Internet and digital telephony. Under this multi-year contract, the three municipalities have commissioned cablecom to modernize ...
Alderley Park, England, November 23 (ots/PRNewswire) - - First patient enrolled into double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled study to investigate overall survival in a broad NSCLC population AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) announced today the start of recruitment into a pivotal Phase II/III study of the ...
Boca Raton, Florida, November 22 (ots/PRNewswire) - PharmaMar announces the presentation of data from two research projects at the 11th Annual CTOS (Connective Tissue Oncology Society) Meeting, which took place in Florida, USA, from November 19-21, 2005. The first presentation highlighted data from a retrospective study conducted in tumour samples from patients of soft tissue sarcoma treated with Yondelis(R) in ...
Dublin, Ireland, November 21 (ots/PRNewswire) - - New hope for HIV/AIDS patients: APTIVUS(R) outperforms several commonly prescribed drugs in the protease inhibitor (PI) class DUBLIN, Ireland, November 21 /PRNewswire/ -- - Experts Emphasize Need for Effective Therapy in Response to Increased Prevalence of HIV/AIDS throughout Europe At the 10th European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS) conference, experts ...
Dublin, Ireland, November 21 (ots/PRNewswire) - - Additional Data Provide Further Guidance on Maximizing Treatment Response with APTIVUS(R) New data presented at the 10th European AIDS Conference (EACS) in Dublin demonstrate that through 48 weeks, APTIVUS(R) (tipranavir) provides a convincing and durable benefit, achieving and maintaining a superior treatment response in patients with resistant HIV.(1) ...
Dublin, Ireland, November 18 (ots/PRNewswire) - - Latest Advances in Health Psychology may Help Physicians Implement Improved HIV Care - News From 10th European AIDS Conference, Dublin, Ireland Initial results from the OpenMind study, the largest behavioural study to look at both patients' and ...
Lund, Switzerland, November 17 (ots/PRNewswire) - For Non-US Medical Journalists Only A new report on the importance of treating Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) exacerbations is launched today, on World COPD Day. Global dissemination of the report to family physicians/General Practitioners around the world is being supported and facilitated by ...