The New England Journal of Medicine has published the second of two late stage studies showing that GW Pharma’s cannabinoid Epidiolex cut seizures in patients with the rare childhood epilepsy Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome.
17th May 2018
Roche’s Tecentriq will be routinely available on the NHS in England and Wales to patients with advanced, pre-treated bladder cancer, following a nod from cost-regulators.
17th May 2018
A late-stage study of Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent in adolescents with atopic dermatitis has met its key targets, paving the way for a regulatory submission for drug targeting this younger patient group in the third quarter.
17th May 2018
The European Commission has approved Ipsen/Exelixis’ Cabometyx for the first-line treatment of adults with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
17th May 2018
The Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult (CGT Catapult) has announced a major investment in skills and capability training to help accelerate integration of cell and gene therapies into health services following their regulatory approval.
16th May 2018
Lilly has reported mixed trial data for its experimental therapy galcanezumab, showing efficacy in patients with episodic cluster headaches but failing in those with chronic cluster headache.
16th May 2018
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer’s Retacrit, a biosimilar of Amgen's Epogen and Johnson & Johnson's Procrit.
16th May 2018
Says $100,000-per-month contract with president's lawyer was "legal but an error"
16th May 2018
Eli Lilly has unveiled a deal to buy AurKa Pharma, bringing back in-house experimental fisrt-in-class cancer drug AK-01.
15th May 2018
A new analysis of safety reporting data by analytics group Elsevier and Bayer has found that some animal tests are far more predictive of human response than others.
15th May 2018
The Medicines Discovery Catapult, the Centre for Drug Safety Sciences at the University of Liverpool and the National Centre for the Replacement Refinement & Reduction of Animals in Research are working together to “propel” the UK into the race to advance organ on a chip technology.
15th May 2018
A scheme being tested by the NHS that considers the mental health of patients with long-term conditions is being hailed a success, having reduced related hospital admissions by some 75 percent.
15th May 2018
The NHS Confederation has launched a petition urging the government to commit to a funding plan for health and social care to 2035, to help address “crippling effects” of rising demand, underfunding and workforce shortages.
15th May 2018
Coeliac UK and the UK’s Innovation Agency, Innovate UK are now taking applications from businesses and researchers wishing to access a fund of £750,000 to improve the detection and management of coeliac disease.
14th May 2018
A UK biotech working on a pioneering a new approach to developing vaccines for infectious diseases has been awarded a grant of £979,318 by Innovate UK.
14th May 2018
