Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Not intended for UK- or US-based media - Chinese pivotal Phase III study meets its primary endpoint of increased progression-free survival in first-line treatment of patients with RAS wild-type metastatic colorectal cancer - Merck will work with relevant authorities to make ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - First published clinical data show prime-boost Ebola vaccine regimen produced an antibody response in 100 percent of healthy volunteers that was sustained 8 months following immunization An Ebola vaccine is still urgently needed to address the problem of Ebola persistence in affected ...
Shire Pharmaceuticals Group Plc
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Zürich, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - This material is intended for global medical media only. For journalistic assessment and preparation before publication. Today, on World Haemophilia Day, Novo Nordisk announces that the grant scheme to support and encourage research projects focused on the psychosocial issues faced by people with haemophilia is open for ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Debiopharm International SA (Debiopharm), a Swiss-based company, part of Debiopharm Group(TM), today announces that non-clinical data on the clinical-stage investigational compound Debio 1347/CH5183284 (FGFR 1,2,3 inhibitor) will be presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the ...
Venlo, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - QIAGEN N.V. (Nasdaq:QGEN) (Frankfurt:QIA) has posted its 2015 Annual Report on its website at http://www.qiagen.com/About-Us/Investors/Financial-Information/Financial-Reports QIAGEN's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2015 has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 26, 2016, a copy of which can be found on the website ...
Paris (ots/PRNewswire) - Echosens (http://www.echosens.com/en/) extends its product range with the launch of a new FibroScan® product, the reference liver diagnosis equipment, at EASL 2016 in Barcelona: FibroScan® 530 Compact. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160411/353647LOGO ) (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20160411/353648 ) The FibroScan® 530 ...
Amsterdam, The Netherlands (ots/PRNewswire) - In patients with IBD, CDI is a key risk factor for both morbidity and mortality, with disease interactions increasing the severity of patients' colitis[1] Results from an international consensus project involving a multidisciplinary group of clinicians have been ...
Darmstadt, Germany (ots/PRNewswire) - Not intended for U.S. based media - Merck obtains CE mark certification for consumables of Gavi(TM) and Geri(TM) as well as for the embryo culture media suite Gems(TM) - Geri(TM) now incorporating innovative software module Geri(TM) Connect + Assess, allowing fertility labs enhanced control and consistency in embryo assessment - ...
Lausanne, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Debiopharm will be present at ECCMID in Amsterdam to share new data supporting the clinical development of its first in class Staphylococcus-selective antibiotic Debio 1450 Debiopharm International SA (Debiopharm), part of Debiopharm Group(TM), a Swiss-based global biopharmaceutical company, today announced three communications ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - - Landmark European Iron Deficiency Survey highlights the lack of awareness of the condition, which currently impacts more people than both diabetes and chronic heart failure worldwide. - The survey findings published to coincide with World Health Day 2016, which this year will be dedicated ...
Lyon, France (ots/PRNewswire) - The European Commission granted marketing authorization for a two-dose schedule in 9-14 year old girls and boys for GARDASIL®9, the 9-valent HPV vaccine Sanofi Pasteur MSD announced today that the European Commission has approved a 2-dose schedule for adolescent girls and boys aged 9 to 14 for GARDASIL®9, its 9-valent Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, for use in the 31 countries ...
Boston (ots/PRNewswire) - For non-US medical media only. For journalistic assessment and preparation before publication. Oral Presentation# OR36-1 Today, new data from the three-year part of the phase 3a SCALE(TM) (Satiety and Clinical Adiposity - Liraglutide Evidence) Obesity and Prediabetes trial were presented at ...
Boston (ots/PRNewswire) - For non-US medical media only. For journalistic assessment and preparation before publication. Abstract #689-P Findings from a clinical trial comparing Victoza® (liraglutide 1.8 mg) and sitagliptin (100 mg), both in combination with metformin, demonstrated that switching from sitagliptin ...
Boston (ots/PRNewswire) - For non-US medical media only. For journalistic assessment and preparation before publication. Abstract #OR15-1 Findings from the first phase 3a clinical trial for semaglutide, an investigational glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) analogue, demonstrated that treatment with semaglutide ...
Cork, Ireland (ots/PRNewswire) - Includes several late breaking and oral presentations from across R&D pipeline Highlights potential of R&D pipeline to deliver several new hepatitis B and C regimens Janssen Sciences Ireland UC and certain Janssen affiliates* today announced it will present thirteen abstracts ...
Cambridge, England (ots/PRNewswire) - Mundipharma announced today that they have submitted a file to the UK regulatory authority, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) seeking a licence for its new product flutiform® K-Haler®. The indication sought is for the treatment of asthma in adults and adolescents where the use of a combination product ...
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Lexington, Massachusetts (ots/PRNewswire) - LIALDA Patent Upheld and Extends through June 8, 2020 Shire plc (LSE: SHP, NASDAQ: SHPG) and its subsidiary, Shire Development LLC, announced today that the United States District Court for Southern Florida has upheld its patent for LIALDA® (mesalamine) delayed release tablets for the induction of remission in adults with active, mild to moderate ulcerative colitis and for the ...
Munich (ots/PRNewswire) - - Four abstracts highlight new subgroup analyses from the global phase 3 ENGAGE AF-TIMI 48 and Hokusai-VTE studies to be presented in oral and poster sessions Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH Group (hereafter, Daiichi Sankyo) today announced that data from three new subgroup analyses from the ...
Toronto (ots/PRNewswire) - The Gairdner Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Canada Gairdner Awards, recognizing some of the most significant medical discoveries from around the world. This year the awards center on two defining themes including the revolutionary Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technique for gene ...
Oxford (ots/PRNewswire) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has posted the conclusions and recommendations of the Vector Control Advisory Group (VCAG) meeting from March 14-15, 2016, regarding vector control tools for use in response to the recent Zika virus outbreak. After their review of several new tools with the potential to reduce vector populations, the VCAG ...
Ballerup, Denmark (ots/PRNewswire) - The marketing approval of Enstilar® would make it the first fixed combination topical foam treatment for people living with psoriasis vulgaris in the EU. LEO Pharma today announced that it received scientific approval of Enstilar® (calcipotriol/betamethasone dipropionate 50 micrograms/g / 0,5 mg/g) for the treatment of psoriasis ...
St. Gallen (ots) - ForaCare Suisse AG located in St. Gallen, Switzerland, announced today its Diamond GD50 health monitoring device is featured in the "United4Health European Project" via its partnership with Meter Ltd., FORA's Italian distributor. The United4Health European Project aims to demonstrate the value of ...
Gothenburg, Sweden (ots/PRNewswire) - Isofol Medical AB, a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, developing novel products for unmet needs within oncology, will use the investment to support the clinical program with Modufolin®, Isofol's lead drug candidate. Modufolin® is a novel folate-based compound being ...
Moscow (ots/PRNewswire) - UC RUSAL (SEHK: 486; Euronext: RUSAL/RUAL; Moscow Exchange: RUAL/RUALR), a leading global aluminium producer, co-organized a roundtable discussion "Ebola vaccine from Russia: the first lessons and outlook into the future". The Minister of Health, Veronika Skvortsova and the Head of the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer ...
Milan (ots/PRNewswire) - GfK has announced its latest figures for key European optics markets (Italy, France, Spain and Germany), confirming a turnover of over EUR17 billion for total year 2015. GfK's Optics Panel tracks sales data for sunglasses, frames, spectacle lenses, contact lenses and care products for contact lenses. The 2015 figures show a 7.0 percent growth in sales value for the optical market across Italy, ...
Oxford, England (ots/PRNewswire) - The US Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine (FDA-CVM) today released in the Federal Register a preliminary finding of no significant impact (FONSI) on Oxitec's self-limiting OX513A Aedes aegypti mosquito for an investigational trial in the Florida Keys. The finding agrees with the draft environmental ...
Athens, Greece (ots/PRNewswire) - Topline-results of the first randomised clinical trial in the world to investigate the effects of a nutritional intervention in very early AD (pre-dementia) [1] Topline results from the European LipiDiDiet clinical trial were presented today as part of a late-breaking presentation ...
London (ots/PRNewswire) - Direct access to the morning after pill in pharmacy has made making asmart, positive decision easier, for women not ready to have a baby New research, released on International Women's Day, shows that across Europe, more than three in four women (77%) are aware of the morning after pill as an option for managing the risk of an unplanned ...
Tolochenaz, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - European innovation delivers titanium family of cages to support twin surgical objectives of bone fusion and sagittal realignment for improved patients' outcomes. Medtronic PLC (NYSE: MDT), the global leader in medical technology, today announced the launch of AVILA(TM), its new family of interbody fusion devices for L2-S1 levels in open and minimally invasive ALIF and OLIF ...