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First Gene Therapy Human Trial For Muscular Dystrophy In Progress

... could ultimately benefit muscles affected by DMD, approval was granted March 3, 2006, to proceed with the human trial. "After years of encouraging pre-clinical results, I'm excited that AskBio will help bring this promising new therapy into the clinic, and look forward with a great deal of optimism to off...

Drug Xeloda as effective as Traditional Chemotherapy

... Demont. .Roche has plans of filing a regulatory approval to treat advanced gastric cancer worldwide. Xelo...s already been licensed in over 90 countries, with approval to treat colorectal cancer that has spread, and even as a treatment for post-surgery colon cancer in...

Drug Firm Disowns Liability

... this risk of cytokine release. The study obtained approval from German and UK authorities....

Chhattisgarh Government To Set Up Hospital In Bastar For Tribals

...ials said the Medical Council of India had granted approval for the college. --Edited IANS...

Pop a pill once a month and free yourself from alcoholism

...ar injection. Vivitrol was granted a conditional approval by FDA in December but said the companies had to p...fore a final decision could be made, pushing final approval back by more than three months. The deal is between two companies where the drug was developed by ...

The Lancet Calls For Review Of Regulatory Process Of Drug Trials

...nal Lancet has called for immediate changes in the approval processes and regulation of human trials of biological drugs. This call came after the trial of TGN1412 ended in disaster with six patients admitted in the // hospital in serious condition. The journal says that since the UK Medicines and Healthc...

Pfizer Acquires Worldwide Rights For New Overactive Bladder Drug

...warz had submitted an application for fesoterodine approval to both the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) earlier this year. Initially Pfizer will pay $100 million to Schwarz Pharma. This amount can be increased provided the drug meets certain milestones. Roya...

Raloxifene Better Than Tamoxifen For Breast Cancer

...id it would seek U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval to market Evista for this purpose. "Tamoxifen will remain the drug of choice for reducing breast cancer risk in pre-menopausal women," Vogel said. However, Raloxifene was found to cause more pre-cancerous lesions, which has puzzled doctors. "For now ...

High Cost Forces NHS To Reject Inhaled Insulin

...l experts in the US and Europe to grant widespread approval for this medicine. The choice here is quite simple: force patients to keep enduring the burden of multiple daily injections and poor compliance, as they have since the 1920s, or give them an alternative,' responded Pfizer, a leading pharmaceutical th...

Cancer wonder drug will not be a slip between the cup and the lip!

...eatment of early stage HER-2 Breast cancer. // The approval binds Roche, the drug manufacturer to ensure that ...mance. The drug is on its last lap of government approval after which subsidy to use this drug will not be a distant dream. The drug is estimated at an annual...

Campaign to Eliminate Cervical Cancer

...s in the United States over the last 60 years. The approval of a new screening test for HPV infections, which,...0 percent. An HPV vaccine is expected to receive approval from the FDA, which if widely used, could significantly decrease the number of cervical cancer cas...

Arrest of Professor over Distribution of Banned Drug

...compliance with international formulae and without approval from NDA - supplying a restricted drug from uncertified premises; publication of description matter for Khomeini I, II and III for prevention or treatment of tuberculosis, a disease in the 5th schedule of NDA and preparation and supply of a drug by a...

FDA Not In Favor Of Legalizing Medical Marijuana

...ndergo the rigorous scientific scrutiny of the FDA approval process and are proven safe and effective.," it said. The FDA's decision means that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) can take action against marijuana users even in states that have legalized it. Last year, a Supreme Court decision also found f...

Cure For Pompe Disease

... a variety of tests and trails has won the federal approval to sell the drug in the market. Genzyme officials said that the dug Myozyme, would cost about $200,000 to $300,000 a year. The disease incidence is less than 10000 people and they are all grateful for Genzyme's drugs. Genzyme said that it will provi...

New Drug to Fight against Obesity

...dicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended the drug for approval for weight loss//. After this its shares rose 2.7%...ht or obese patients. But Sanofi failed to win the approval of the agency, EU committee and FDA to make Acomplia available as an anti-smoking drug. But the F...

European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Recommends Herceptin For Early Stage Breast Cancer

...e trust to fund Herceptin. The news of Herceptin's approval by the EMEA was welcomed by charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, "Not only does this confirm the drug's importance, it should also help reassure those who may have previously doubted its effectiveness and safety," said Chief executive Jeremy Hughes. "...

Eyeing Trouble! Doctor in a blind spot.

...d to initiating// medical trials without obtaining approval from the patients. Dr Deepak Chitkara, 46, from Liverpool, found himself in a blind spot after he inserted "untested" lenses into patients' eyes as part of a study. Following this, Mr. Chitkara, lost his job at the Rosen Eye clinic, but has since s...

Dacogen comes to the rescue of MDS

...t affect fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S. the approval has been an alternative for people suffering from MDS as they can avoid blood transfusions says Steven Galson, MD, Director of FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. As of now there is no clear evidence for the cause of MDS. They can develop...

Ontario minister seconds patient-pay plan for expensive cancer drugs

...llowed to pay for those cancer drugs that have the approval of Health Canada but are frightfully expensive, which may be needed to extend the life of patients suffering from incurable cancers. The proposal will permit thousands of Ontario patients to buy the IV drugs at half the price in comparison to the Uni...

Iran Bans Smoking In Public Places

...ovides for a fine of $1,278. The bill now awaits approval by the Guardian Council, which had rejected a similar bill last year, saying it was against national economic interests. Health Minister Kamran Baqeri-Lankarani is an exponent of the non-smoking bill and has several times stated that he wants to fi...

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