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Erythropoietin in Medical Technology

XTL Biopharmaceuticals Announces the Acquisition of the Use Patent on Recombinant Erythropoietin (rHuEPO) for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

... for the rights to a use patent on Recombinant erythropoietin ("rHuEPO") for the prolongation of multiple ... second or third quarter of 2009. ABOUT erythropoietin (EPO) erythropoietin (EPO) is a glycoprotein cytokine produced mainly ...

Observational Study Finds Changes in Medicare Reimbursement for Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents Associated With Increased Need for Blood Transfusion

... associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients treated with ... for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, PROCRIT ... Treatment of patients with grossly elevated serum erythropoietin levels (e.g., >200 mUnits/mL) is not ...

Data From Investigational Use of PROCRIT(R) (Epoetin alfa) Presented at American Society of Nephrology Annual Meeting

... associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients treated with ... for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, ... Treatment of patients with grossly elevated serum erythropoietin levels (e.g., >200 mUnits/mL) is not ...

Medgenics' Phase I/II Clinical Trial Now Shows EPODURE Continuous Anemia Treatment Lasting 5 Months in Kidney Disease Patients

... thus effectively treating their anemia without receiving any injections of erythropoietin (EPO) during this period. One of the patients received his last EPO ... based on this technology: EPODURE - producing erythropoietin (EPO) to treat anemia INFRADURE - producing interferon-alpha ...

Observational Studies Assess the Potential Impact of Limiting Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agent Availability on Frequency of Blood Transfusions

... without other cytopenias, associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients with chronic renal failure receiving ... to perform assays for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, PROCRIT should be permanently ...

New Data Highlighting Possible Impact of ESA Reimbursement Policies on Patient Care, Nation's Blood Supply, to be Presented at American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting

... without other cytopenias, associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients with chronic renal failure receiving ... to perform assays for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, PROCRIT should be permanently ...

Data From Ortho Biotech-Sponsored Studies to be Presented at National Kidney Foundation 2008 Spring Clinical Meetings

... without other cytopenias, associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients with chronic renal failure receiving ... to perform assays for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, PROCRIT should be permanently ...

BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals and ASKA Pharmaceutical Co. Announce Results from Phase III Clinical Trial of Tavocept(TM)

... or prevent chemotherapy-induced anemia and to maintain or stimulate erythropoietin function or synthesis. Erythropoiesis is the process by which red blood cells are produced, and involves the release of a hormone called erythropoietin that stimulates the red bone marrow to begin red blood cell production. ...

Ortho Biotech Statement on U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee Vote

... without other cytopenias, associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients with chronic renal failure receiving ... to perform assays for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, PROCRIT should be permanently ...

Totality of Available Data Reaffirms PROCRIT(R) (Epoetin alfa) Is Safe and Effective When Used Appropriately as Labeled to Treat Chemotherapy-Induced Anemia

... without other cytopenias, associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients with chronic renal failure receiving ... to perform assays for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, PROCRIT should be permanently ...

Observational Data Show Transfusion Patterns in Chemotherapy-Induced Anemia Patients Receiving Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents

... without other cytopenias, associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients with chronic renal failure receiving ... to perform assays for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, PROCRIT should be permanently ...

PROCRIT(R) (Epoetin Alfa) Data to be Presented at American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting

... without other cytopenias, associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients with chronic renal failure receiving ... to perform assays for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, PROCRIT should be permanently ...

Ortho Biotech Reiterates Confidence in PROCRIT(R) (Epoetin alfa) Safety and Efficacy When Used According to Label

... without other cytopenias, associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients with chronic renal failure receiving ... to perform assays for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, PROCRIT should be permanently ...

Results from Study Evaluating PROCRIT(R) in Intensive Care Unit Patients Published in New England Journal of Medicine

... without other cytopenias, associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients with chronic renal failure receiving ... to perform assays for binding and neutralizing antibodies. If erythropoietin antibody-mediated anemia is confirmed, PROCRIT should be permanently ...

Final Results of Boceprevir Phase II HCV SPRINT-1 Study Showed Significantly Higher SVR Rates Compared to Standard of Care in Treatment-Naive Genotype 1 Hepatitis C Patients

... HCV SPRINT-1 study, anemia occurred in approximately half of the patients in the boceprevir arms and over a third of patients in the control arm. erythropoietin (EPO) supplementation was allowed in the study at the discretion of the investigator and was used by 26 percent of patients in the control arm and ...

Medgenics Announces Positive Data From Phase I/II Clinical Trial of EPODURE Treatment of Anemia in Chronic Kidney Disease

... ongoing Phase I/II clinical trial, a one-time administration of EPODURE, producing and delivering the low dose of 18-25 IU/kg/day of the protein erythropoietin (EPO), was sufficient to sustain therapeutic elevation of hemoglobin in most patients. The earliest patients to receive treatment have shown ...

Soliris(R) Improved Fatigue Independent of Changes in Anemia in Patients with PNH by Controlling Hemolysis

... in their anemia. This improvement was larger than the improvement in fatigue reported in a separate study of anemic cancer patients treated with erythropoietin (EPO). Furthermore, in contrast to the improvement in fatigue of anemic cancer patients treated with EPO which occurred only when anemia was ...

Takeda Doses First Patient in a U.S. Phase 1 Study of Hematide(TM) to Treat Chemotherapy Induced Anemia

... additional later stage clinical trials. About Hematide Hematide is a novel synthetic, pegylated peptidic compound that binds to and activates the erythropoietin receptor and acts as an erythropoiesis stimulating agent. The product is being developed for treatment of anemia in patients with chronic renal ...

Exelixis Presents Encouraging Phase 1 Data For XL019, A Novel Selective Inhibitor of JAK2

... of inducible transcription factors. JAK2 plays a pivotal role in the cellular response to growth factors that drive blood cell expansion, including erythropoietin and thrombopoietin. Mutational activation of JAK2 is observed in the majority of patients with polycythemia vera, essential thrombocythemia ...

Rockwell Medical Technologies, Inc. Begins Dosing Patients for SFP Phase IIb Clinical Study

... administration costs. Recent academic studies have shown that more frequent maintenance doses of iron improve the therapeutic benefits of recombinant erythropoietin treatments. Rockwell has licensed the exclusive world-wide rights to SFP and is seeking FDA market approval. Patents for SFP have been secured in ...

Study Published in Endocrinology Reports Potential of Modigene Technology to Extend Duration of Protein Drugs

... attaching the CTP peptide did not affect the therapeutic activity of FSH or cause a negative immune system response. 1. Development of a Long-Acting erythropoietin by Fusing the Carboxyl- Terminal Peptide of Human Chorionic Gonadotropin b-Subunit to the Coding Sequence of Human Erythropoietin," Fuad ...

Researchers Urge Caution in Using ESAs for Cancer-Related Anemia

... stronger effects on these receptors than natural erythropoietin does. If so, then it is possible that ESAs may ... studies at their laboratory suggest that erythropoietin may have abnormal effects on the erythropoietin receptors in cultured tumor cells. If this also ...

Modigene Announces Successful Completion of Pharmacokinetic & Pharmacodynamic Pre-Clinical Experiments for Proprietary Long-Acting Human Growth Hormone, Long-acting Interferon Beta and Long-acting Erythropoietin

... In addition, Modigene's long-acting erythropoietin has demonstrated, in a pre-clinical animal model ... over Amgen Inc.'s Aranesp(R), a long-acting erythropoietin with reported sales of $4.1 billion in 2006, out ... total estimated EPO market size of $11.7 billion. erythropoietin is prescribed for the treatment of anemia. "We ...

Affymax Announces Results From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Hematide for the Treatment of Anemia in Dialysis Patients

... with the hemodialysis patient population. About Hematide Hematide is a novel synthetic, pegylated peptide that binds to and activates the erythropoietin receptor. The product is being developed for treatment of anemia in chronic kidney disease and cancer. About Affymax, Inc. Affymax, Inc. is a ...

Data Analyses Outline Efficacy and Safety of Mircera for the Treatment of Renal Anemia Associated With Chronic Kidney Disease

... shortened survival and increased the risk of death in cancer patients. Pure Red Cell Aplasia (PRCA) has been observed in patients treated with erythropoietin therapy. However, PRCA has not been observed with MIRCERA in clinical trials to date. About Roche Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Roche), based in ...

Aranesp ``145 Study'' Shows No Difference in Survival in Patients with Small-Cell Lung Cancer

... period. Cases of pure red cell aplasia (PRCA) and of severe anemia, with or without other cytopenias, associated with neutralizing antibodies to erythropoietin have been reported in patients treated with Aranesp. This has been reported predominantly in patients with CRF receiving Aranesp by subcutaneous ...

Affymax Announces Phase 2 Clinical Trial Results of Once-Per-Month Hematide for the Treatment of Anemia in Patients with Early- and End-Stage Chronic Kidney Disease

... optimizing anemia management in their patients." About Hematide Hematide is a novel synthetic, pegylated peptide that binds to and activates the erythropoietin receptor. The product is being developed for treatment of anemia in chronic kidney disease and cancer. About Affymax, Inc. Affymax, Inc. is a ...

Mircera Effective in Stabilising Haemoglobin Levels in Elderly Patients With Kidney Disease on Dialysis

... of renal anaemia, can be successfully treated with MIRCERA on a simple twice-monthly dosing schedule. About MIRCERA MIRCERA, a continuous erythropoietin receptor activator, is the first of a new class of long-acting chemically synthesized erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) having reached ...

Pharmion to Present Clinical Data on Commercial and Pipeline Products at 2007 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Meeting

... multiple myeloma (RRMM) -- P. Sonneveld; Abstract #8023; June 3, 2007; 3:00-3:15pm; McCormick Place Convention Center, E354b An analysis of erythropoietin (EPO) and VTE in MM patients treated with anthracycline-based chemotherapy and the immunomodulatory agent thalidomide -- R. Baz; Abstract #8107; ...

Adding Thalidomide to Standard Therapy Improves Survival in Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma Patients Over Age 75

... for approval of Thalidomide Pharmion as a first line therapy for multiple myeloma in Europe. Data Presented Saturday, June 2 An analysis of erythropoietin (EPO) and VTE in MM patients treated with anthracycline-based chemotherapy and the immunomodulatory agent thalidomide -- R. Baz; Abstract #8107; ...

Affymax Reports Phase 2 Clinical Dose Ranging Results of Once-Per-Month Hematide for the Treatment of Anemia

... to outpatient intervention). About Hematide Hematide is a novel synthetic, pegylated peptidic compound that binds to and activates the erythropoietin receptor. The product is being developed for treatment of anemia in patients with chronic renal failure and cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. ...
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