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Pharma News: In a significant step forward for public health, Sanofi has announced a groundbreaking agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a Johnson & Johnson company, to develop and commercialize a potential first-in-class vaccine targeting extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC). This innovative vaccine, currently in Phase 3 clinical trials, aims to combat ExPEC's deva...
Thailand Medical News Team Aug 29, 2023 1 month ago
Pharma News: In a significant breakthrough for the treatment of lower-risk myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Reblozyl® (luspatercept-aamt), developed by Bristol Myers Squibb. This approval marks a turning point in addressing chronic anemia in adult patients with very low- to intermediate-risk MDS who may require regular red bl...
Thailand Medical News Team Aug 18, 2023 2 months ago
Pharma News: The rapid pace of innovation in the pharmaceutical industry has led to the frequent launch of new cancer drugs, promising hope for patients battling this formidable disease. However, a concerning trend has emerged, revealing that many of these drugs receive approval before substantial evidence of their long-term effectiveness can be established. In an era where resources are finite an...
Thailand Medical News Team Aug 17, 2023 2 months ago
Pharma News: A lawsuit has been filed against pharmaceutical giants Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, makers of the widely used type 2 diabetes drugs Ozempic and Mounjaro. The lawsuit claims that these medications, which are also prescribed off-label for weight loss, have caused severe stomach problems in patients, including a condition known as gastroparesis, or stomach paralysis.
The Laws...
Thailand Medical News Team Aug 09, 2023 2 months ago
Pharma News: In a groundbreaking development, Novo Nordisk's revolutionary weight loss drug, Wegovy, has not only captured the attention of the weight-conscious population but has now demonstrated a remarkable potential to significantly lower the risk of major cardiovascular events (MACE).
The results of an extensive clinical trial have unveiled a 20% reduction in the occurrence o...
Thailand Medical News Team Aug 09, 2023 2 months ago
Pharma News: You've probably seen the unsettling commercial that warns that the virus responsible for shingles might already be lurking within you if you had chickenpox as a child. This chilling message serves as a reminder for people to consider getting the shingles vaccine. But, alas, the vaccine doesn't provide foolproof protection against shingles; it simply helps mitigate the symptoms...
Thailand Medical News Team Aug 07, 2023 2 months ago
Pharma News: According to data from the pharma industry, the global market for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) treatments is on track to reach nearly US$11 billion by 2030, making PAH drugs highly sought-after assets in the biopharmaceutical industry. While the projected figures for other markets, such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and obesity, may be more substantial, the unique appeal o...
Pharma News - diclofenac - UGT2B17 May 01, 2023 5 months ago
Pharma News: New research has unveiled the potential reason behind the alarming side effects of a widely-used painkiller, diclofenac, putting millions of people at risk for severe complications. A misunderstood enzyme responsible for metabolizing the drug may be the key factor leading to serious health consequences, including heart damage.
In a groundbreaking study, scientists have discovered a s...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Altered Blood-Brain Barrier - Drug Transport Apr 01, 2023 6 months ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by Mexican medical scientists has found that SARS-CoV-2 virus is able to alter the Blood-Brain Barrier of the human host with concerning implications as many of the drugs used during treatment can also thereafter gain access to the brain when in the first place, during development and research, they were made knowing very well that their active molecules would never be a...
Pharma News -Nitroglycerin Spray Shortage Mar 22, 2023 6 months ago
Pharma News: Shortage Of Nitroglycerin Spray, A Heart Medication In Canada Is Expected to Extend To The America and Europe Due To Raw Materials Crisis.
Pharma News: A shortage of a critical heart medication, nitroglycerin spray, has sparked concerns among patients and healthcare providers in Canada, particularly in Alberta.
The fast-acting nitroglycerin spray is used by spraying on...
U.S. Medical News - Pfizer Recalls Nurtec ODT Migraine Tablets Mar 19, 2023 7 months ago
U.S. Medical News: Pfizer has initiated the withdrawal of millions of Nurtec ODT Migraine tablet packs in the United States due to the lack of necessary child-resistant blister packs, which, according to U.S. regulators, present a poisoning hazard to children.
In all, more than four million blister packs of Pfizer’s prescription migraine drug Nurtec ODT is being recalled in Amer...
Medical Warnings - Online Influencers Mar 14, 2023 7 months ago
Medical Warnings: A new study led by researchers from University of Colorado-USA has found that many online “Patient Influencers” are being paid by pharmaceutical companies to mislead viewers on prescription drugs!
In some cases, these online medical influencers are not just previous patients but also doctors, researchers and so called “experts’ and even advocacy o...
Pharma News -Silver Nanoparticles - Antivirals - COVID-19 - H5N1 Mar 13, 2023 7 months ago
Pharma News: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic with the emergence of new variants and sub-lineages have made identifying effective treatments become even more challenging.
Unknown to many, drug resistance has developed in many of these new sub-lineages not only with the used of officially approved antivirals such as remdesivir, paxlovid, molnupiravir, favipiravir but even with drugs unofficially an...
Pharma News: Apotex, Canada's largest generic drug maker, has announced a recall of six batches of the glaucoma and ocular hypertension drug brimonidine tartrate ophthalmic solution due to sterility concerns.
https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/apotex-corp-issues-voluntary-nationwide-recall-brimonidine-tartrate-ophthalmic-solution-015-due
The company is...
Pharma News - Sandoz Dicillin Feb 24, 2023 7 months ago
Pharma News: The Danish Medicines Agency has initiated a recall of Sandoz’s Dicillin antibiotics after it was discovered that the drugs were contaminated and lead to users developing an infection involving Carbapenemase-Producing ST79 Enterobacter Hormaechei.
https://laegemiddelstyrelsen.dk/da/nyheder/2023/antibiotikalaegemidlet-dicillin-fra-firmaet-sandoz-tilbagekaldes/
The recall ...
Pharma News - Ibuprofen - Naproxen Nov 25, 2022 10 months ago
Pharma News: A new study lead by researchers from the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at the University of California, San Francisco- USA have found that the usage of pain relievers like Ibuprofen and Naproxen actually worsens arthritis inflammation.
The study team warns that the use of NSAIDS such as ibuprofen and naproxen might not have the desired effect patients are see...
Pharma News: A new study by Italian researchers has shockingly found that Nirmatrelvir which is a key component of the drug Paxlovid that is being peddled by American and British medical ‘experts’ to treat COVID-19 actually blunts the development of antiviral adaptive immune responses in mice infected with SARS-CoV-2!
According to the study team, this might help explain the vi...
Source: Pharma News - Gepotidacin - UTIs Nov 05, 2022 11 months ago
Pharma News: Pharma giant, GSK has developed a new antibiotic called Gepotidacin that could fight tough-to-treat drug resistance urinary tract infections (UTIs).
Phase 3 clinical trials proved to not only be successful but demonstrated the efficacy of the drug beyond the researchers’ expectations that the trials ended earlier than expected.
https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/media/press-rele...
Pharma News: Florida based AzurRx BioPharma, a company specializing in the development of non-systemic therapies for gastrointestinal (GI) diseases has announced that it has signed an exclusive worldwide licensing agreement with First Wave Bio, Inc for the use of their patented and proprietary oral and rectal formulations of niclosamide for the treatment of immune checkpoint inhibitor-as...
Pharma News: Pharma giant Roche has partnered with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to develop, manufacture and distribute Regeneron’s antiviral antibody combination, REGN-COV2, as a potential treatment of COVID-19.
The new antibody combination REGN-COV2 could help treat patients with symptoms and also prevent the disease in individuals exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
An init...
Pharma News: One of the world’s biggest pharma giant Novartis, in a PR move publicly announced the launch an initiative to assist patients in low-income and lower-middle-income countries in getting access to affordable drugs for COVID-19.
The pharma company said that they are specifically making 15 drugs from its Sandoz division available that can be used to treat symptoms...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 18, 2020 4 years ago
Sales figures for the first cannabis-based medicine in the United States are in and they’re telling a bullish story, according to GW Pharmaceuticals CEO Justin Gover.
The drug, Epidiolex, which contains cannabidiol to treat severe forms of epilepsy, brought in $104 million in net sales in the fourth quarter and a total of $296 million in 2019 across the globe, the British pharma...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 17, 2020 4 years ago
The pharmaceutical news and media segment is abuzzed about a new development that will disrupt the way that individuals with allergies or reactions having anaphylaxis episodes are treated or able to treat themselves. A privately held Raleigh medical device company called Bryn Pharma, is on track to soon provide people who have severe, possibly life-threatening allergies a needle-free option t...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 08, 2020 4 years ago
Galen Pharma, a Northern Ireland-based, globally focused pharmaceutical sales and marketing firm has acquired Swedish-headquartered POA Pharma in a multi-million pound takeover agreement.
This takeover allows Galen to expand its global footprint further into Scandinavia and Northern Europe. POA Pharma has offices and facilities in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland.
The buy out will also broad...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jan 06, 2020 4 years ago
Pharma giant, Merck also known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, has announced an exclusive worldwide research collaboration and license agreement with Taiho Pharmaceutical Co, Ltd., (“Taiho”) and Astex Pharmaceuticals (UK), a wholly owned subsidiary of Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (“Astex”), focused on the development of small molecule inhibitors agains...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 26, 2019 4 years ago
Pharma Industry News
Roche and Sarepta have signed a legal deal providing Roche exclusive commercial rights to SRP-9001 (AAVrh74.MHCK7.micro-dystrophin), Sarepta’s investigational gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), outside the United States.
Under the terms of the deal, Sarepta will receive US$1.15 billion in an upfront payment and an equity investment; up to $1.7 billion ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 21, 2019 4 years ago
Novartis, the Swiss pharmaceutical company is preparing to give away 100 doses of the world's most expensive drug, which treats a rare childhood disorder, through a special recipient selection process.
The pharmaceutical giant announced this week that starting next month, its AveXis unit will begin distributing doses of Zolgensma, a one-time gene treatment for spinal muscular atrophy, also ...
Source: Thailand Medical news Dec 17, 2019 4 years ago
Pharmaceuticals giant Roche said it had received the necessary approval from competition authorities to acquire US gene-therapy group Spark, after the two companies reached a multibillion-dollar deal earlier this year.
Incorporated in 2013, Spark Therapeutics specialises in a new and growing segment of medicine for genetic diseases such as blindness, haemophilia, and neurodegenerative...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 11, 2019 4 years ago
It was announced that AstraZeneca will partner with DeepMatter to improve the productivity and reproducibility of compound synthesis by combining the pharma giant’s automated compound synthesis platform with DeepMatter’s DigitalGlassware™ data collection and structuring technology, through a collaboration whose value was not disclosed.
Glasgow based DeepMatter,is a big data and ...
Source: Thailand Medical Newss Dec 11, 2019 4 years ago
Pharma giant Roche has announced that it is terminating its precision medicine partnership with software developer Syapse later this month, the pharmaceutical and diagnostics giant confirmed Friday. The deal will end Dec. 18, less than two years after it began, a company spokesperson said.
Roche spokesperson Patrick Barth told Thailand Medical News, "As partnerships evolve, prioritie...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 4 years ago
Pharma News
The American Regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first generic versions of Novartis multiple sclerosis drug Gilenya (fingolimod).
Applications for the generic fingolimod by HEC Pharm, Biocon and Sun Pharmaceutical Industries secured the FDA authorisation to treat adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.
Multiple sclerosis ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 10, 2019 4 years ago
Pharma News
The global HIV specialists pharma company, ViiV Healthcare, majority owned by GSK, with Pfizer and Shionogi Limited as shareholders, has filed a New Drug Application in the US for fostemsavir, an investigational, first-in-class attachment inhibitor for the treatment of HIV-1 infection.
Fostemsavir, the drug is being developed for use in combination with other antiretroviral agents ...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 02, 2019 4 years ago
Many big pharma and biotech conglomerates are going through a tough time. As businesses struggles, significant debt and legal liabilities put some industry players at particularly high risk of declaring bankruptcy in the near future, including large drugmakers like Teva Pharmaceutical and Bausch Health as well as small biotechs including Clovis Oncology and Puma Biotechnology.
A pharma industry...
Source: Thailand Medical News Dec 02, 2019 4 years ago
Biopharmaceutical company Incyte has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for priority review its New Drug Application (NDA) for pemigatinib as a treatment for patients with cholangiocarcinoma.
Typically, Cholangiocarcinoma is cancer that forms in the bile duct, with patients often diagnosed at a late or advanced stage.
The drug Pemigatinib is a selecti...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 27, 2019 4 years ago
Bempedoic acid is an oral, once-daily ATP citrate lyase (ACL) inhibitor that reduces cholesterol synthesis in the liver and is currently undergoing regulatory review
Bempedoic acid lowered LDL-Cholesterol by 17% on top of maximally-tolerated statin therapy at 12 weeks, and the effect was durable through 52 weeks1
Overall adverse events in the bempedoic acid treatment arm were comparable to pla...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 26, 2019 4 years ago
Thailand Pharma News
Patients with multiple sclerosis often pay, on average, nearly US$7,000 out of pocket to treat their condition each year. And, even though drug companies have provided no new treatment breakthroughs, the price of these disease-modifying medications is rising by 10% to 15% each year for the past decade.
A team of researchers at Oregon Health & Science University and the...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 17, 2019 4 years ago
A panel of specialists from the US Food and Drug Administration has approved allowing Amarin Corp Plc's fish-oil derived drug, Vascepa to be used as an add-on therapy for reducing the chance of heart attack and stroke in high-risk patients with cardiovascular disease.
Everyone of the 16 panelists voted that the drug should be sold as a medicine to reduce the risk of cardiovascular eve...
Source: Thailand Medical News Nov 07, 2019 4 years ago
Pharma giant, Biogen has signed a commercialisation agreement with Samsung Bioepis for biosimilar candidates SB11 (ranibizumab) and SB15 (aflibercept).
SB11, referencing Lucentis, is in Phase III clinical trial and SB15, referencing Eylea, is a pre-clinical candidate. The deal will allow Biogen to commercialise the biosimilars in the US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia. Lucentis ...