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January 18, 2017 11:25

Bioventus Selects MEDSERVICE to Distribute DUROLANE® in Russia

Bioventus, a leader in orthobiologic solutions, announced it has selected MEDSERVICE to distribute DUROLANE® in Russia. DUROLANE is a single-injection joint-fluid based on a natural, safe and proven t

January 16, 2017 13:25

Tocagen Expands Toca 5, Phase 2/3 Clinical Trial for Recurrent Brain Cancer, to South Korea

Tocagen Inc., a clinical-stage, cancer-selective gene therapy company, today announced its randomized, controlled Phase 2/3 clinical trial, called Toca 5, is now enrolling patients in South Korea. The

January 12, 2017 17:33

HUREN awarded citation by Korean Optometric Association

Daemyung Optical’s brand ‘HUREN (www.huren.co.kr)', carrying out an aggressive marketing in the Optical lens sector, was awarded a citation by Daejeon Metropolitan City Eyeglass Society for the Korean

January 12, 2017 11:20

Maverick Therapeutics and Takeda Announce Five-year Collaboration to Advance T-Cell Engagement Therapies

Maverick Therapeutics Inc., an MPM Capital portfolio company, and Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) announced today that they have entered a collaboration to develop Maverick’s T-cell e

January 10, 2017 16:50

Market Research Proves Success of Galderma’s Harmony Programme for Aesthetic Practice

Market research concludes that Galderma’s Harmony Programme for aesthetic Health Care Professionals (HCPs) significantly increases patient satisfaction. Using Harmony resulted in more returning patien

January 10, 2017 11:05

Ferring Partners with Intralytix to Develop Bacteriophage Treatments for Conditions Associated with the Microbiome and Drug-Resistant Bacteria

Ferring Pharmaceuticals is partnering with Intralytix, Inc to develop and commercialise bacteriophage-based treatments for conditions associated with the presence of pathogenic bacteria or dysbiosis o

January 10, 2017 10:50

Takeda to Acquire ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TSE:4502) (“Takeda”) and ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARIA) (“ARIAD”) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Taked

January 09, 2017 10:55

LFB S.A. Announced Today the Acceptance by U.S. Food and Drug Administration of the Filed Biologic License Application for Coagulation Factor VIIa Recombinant, (eptacog beta activated)

LFB S.A., announced that its Biologic License Application (BLA), requesting marketing approval of Coagulation Factor VIIa (Recombinant) as a treatment for congenital hemophilia A or B in adolescent an

January 09, 2017 08:35

Takeda and PvP Biologics Announce Development Agreement around Novel Therapeutic for Celiac Disease

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (“Takeda”) (TOKYO:4502) and PvP Biologics, Inc. (“PvP”) today announced a global agreement for the development of KumaMax, a novel enzyme designed to break down t

January 06, 2017 13:35

BridgeBio Pharma Launches with a Focus on Precision Medicines for Genetic Diseases

California-based BridgeBio Pharma has come out of stealth mode to reveal more detail about its novel approach to developing new therapies for genetic diseases. These diseases, often inherited and indi

January 04, 2017 13:35

Patient Safety Movement Announces the 3rd Fishing Trip with President Jimmy Carter & First Lady Rosalynn

The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) announces its third annual contest to win a fishing trip with former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter. The top two healthcare institu

January 04, 2017 12:00

Hong Kong Professor in Food & Nutritional Sciences Appointed to the Herbalife Nutrition Advisory Board

Herbalife, a global nutrition company, today announced that Dr. Zhen-Yu Chen, an expert in food and nutritional sciences has been appointed to its Nutrition Advisory Board (NAB). Dr. Chen has over

January 03, 2017 13:55

Masimo Reaffirms Commitment to India with Launch of Advanced Monitoring Technologies Made for India

Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today the launch and availability of the Rad-97™ Pulse-CO Oximeter®* and Next Generation SedLine®* Brain Function Monitoring in India. The announcement was made in Bang

January 03, 2017 11:40

Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim Confirm Closing of Business Swap on January 1st 2017

Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim confirmed today that the strategic transaction signed in June 2016, which consists of an exchange of Sanofi’s animal health business (Merial) and Boehringer Ingelheim’s

December 23, 2016 11:55

Octapharma donates Nuwiq® to the WFH Humanitarian Aid Program to provide patients with haemophilia A in developing countries access to therapy

Octapharma is proud to announce that the company has made a charitable donation of 4.5 million units of its fourth generation, human cell-line derived recombinant factor VIII product, Nuwiq®, to the W

December 22, 2016 15:25

Octapharma Presents Key Data with Nuwiq® in Previously Untreated Patients from the NuProtect Study at the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting in San Diego, USA

On Sunday, 4th December, 2016 Octapharma presented interim data from the ongoing phase 3 study, NuProtect at the 58th ASH Annual Meeting & Exposition in San Diego, California. The presentation was nom

December 21, 2016 11:40

Oral PDE-4 Inhibitor, OTEZLA®, Approved for the Treatment of Plaque Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis in Japan

Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) today announced that OTEZLA® (apremilast), Celgene’s oral selective inhibitor of phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4), has been granted full marketing authorization by Japan’s

December 20, 2016 16:51

Give HUREN to your family for a Christmas gift!

It is expected that the product line of domestic optical lens which is well known for the advertisement phrase “Eyes know the difference” will hit this winter. HUREN (optical lens brand of Daemyung

December 20, 2016 10:25

Ferring and IMAB Sign Licensing Agreement Granting IMAB Exclusive Rights in Asia to Olamkicept for the Treatment of Autoimmune Disease

Ferring Pharmaceuticals and IMAB today announced that they have signed a licensing agreement which grants IMAB exclusive rights to olamkicept (pINN) in Asia. Olamkicept is a new recombinant protein

December 19, 2016 09:35

CHMP adopts a positive opinion acknowledging that Jardiance® reduces the risk of CV death

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) today adopted a positive opinion to update the Jardiance® (empagliflozin) label including a change to t

December 16, 2016 15:06

Daemyung Optical Opens New Official Website

Daemyung Optical(DMO)(www.dmo.co.kr) has reformed its website to enforce communications with clients both domestically and internationally with its 31st year anniversary . The new webpages after th

December 16, 2016 09:59

Brainlab ExacTrac Integrates Varian’s PerfectPitch to Enable Highly Accurate Radiosurgery Treatments With Advanced 6D Correctional Accuracy

Brainlab released ExacTrac® 6.2, a new version of its successful room-based patient positioning system providing full interoperability with the PerfectPitch™ six-degrees of freedom couch from Varian M

December 14, 2016 13:20

Vietnam’s City International Hospital Makes Commitment to Patient Safety Movement Foundation

The Patient Safety Movement Foundation (PSMF) announces that City International Hospital in Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam, is the newest international healthcare provider to make a commitment toward the PS

December 13, 2016 11:20

Alvogen Launches the First Generic Equivalent to Tamiflu® Capsules in the United States

Today, Alvogen has launched the first generic equivalent to Tamiflu® (oseltamivir phosphate) capsules in the United States. Alvogen expects the generic equivalent to Tamiflu® capsules to deliver signi

December 09, 2016 12:00

Provision Healthcare Receives FDA Clearance of the ProNova SC360 Proton Therapy System

Provision Healthcare’s research, development and manufacturing subsidiary, ProNova Solutions, has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its SC360 proton therapy system only four years after commencing res

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