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Nov 28, 2019

Sanofi’s Toujeo has received FDA recommendation for its expanded use in Type 1 Diabetes. Toujeo is an insulin glargine injection to control the highs and lows of blood sugar in the body. Indicated to be used in adults and paediatric patients of age six and older. Earlier, the injection was considered suitab...

Nov 26, 2019

Novartis plans to buy The Medicines Company for USD 9.7 Billion to gain access to a heart drug inclisiran, almost ready to get into the market. Under the terms of the deal, Novartis will pay USD 85 per share to the Medicines Company, a cholesterol drug developer, making the deal up to USD 9.7 Billion. The whole...

Nov 19, 2019

Novo Nordisk has announced to enter into a collaboration with Dicerna’s RNAi platform to focus on metabolic and liver-related diseases. The companies will be focusing to advance the treatment landscape of the diseases such as non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), Type 2 diabetes and obesity. Nordisk will be inv...

Nov 14, 2019

AbbVie has traded off its bonds worth USD 30 Billion to finance the purchase of the Allergan.   AbbVie this year in June has agreed to buy Allergan for USD 63 Billion, which is one of the largest deals this year. The acquisition will help AbbVie to diversify its drug portfolio which mostly revolves around H...

Nov 12, 2019

The US FDA for the third time has refused to give approval to Lipocine’s oral testosterone drug, Tlando. The drug is an oral testosterone replacement therapy in clinical trials for the treatment of Primary and Secondary hypogonadism in males. The drug contains containing Testosterone Undecanoate (TU) which help...

Oct 31, 2019

AstraZeneca has announced the licensing-out of two of its drugs Seroquel and Seroquel XR in Europe and Russia to Cheplapharm Arzneimittel GmbH. According to the deal signed between the companies, AZ will receive an upfront payment of USD 178 Million, in addition to other payments upon achieving sales milestones...

Oct 29, 2019

AstraZeneca recently has announced the results of the clinical trials POSEIDON which included the study of a combination of drugs Imfinzi (durvalumab) and tremelimumab with chemotherapy in lung cancer. Imfinzi is a human monoclonal antibody which blocks the interaction of PD-L1 with PD-1 by binding itself with ...

Oct 22, 2019

The US FDA today has given its nod to Trikafta (elexacaftor/ivacaftor/tezacaftor) of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, the first of its kind triple combination therapy for the patients with cystic fibrosis. The drug, Trikafta, has been approved for patients of age 12 years and older who have at least one F508del mutation...

Oct 10, 2019

The US FDA has approved Rybelsus (semaglutide) oral tablets to improve blood sugar in adult patients with Type II Diabetes. Rybelsus is an oral glucagon-like peptide (GLP-1) receptor protein treatment which has been approved after 15 years of the approval first GLP-1 agonist. GLP-1 is a hormone found in insuffi...

Oct 03, 2019

Roche’s Genentech has presented positive Phase III results from the IMvigor130 study aimed at studying Tecentriq (atezolizumab) tested in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy. The drug, Tecentriq, combined with Pt-based chemotherapy showed a noteworthy improvement in patients with untreated advanced bla...