Substandard medicines could be three times more prevalent than the government says, two new studies show. These data have serious implications on health in a country where 58.2 percent of the total health expenditure is an out-of-pocket cost burden on people, according to the World Health Organization, and where medicines alone account for between 70 percent and 77 percent of health spending.
45-year-old patient suffering from Parkinson's disease showed sharp improvement after undergoing stem cell therapy, according to claims made by the doctor who treated him.
Biocon Ltd., announced that it has received European approvals for its Rosuvastatin Calcium 5 mg, 10 mg, 20 mg and 40 mg tablets, a generic equivalent of Crestor® tablets, indicated for hyperlipidemia or mixed dyslipidemia.
Clovis Oncology, Inc. announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has scheduled the New Drug Application (NDA) for rociletinib for discussion by the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) on April 12, 2016.
Optovue announced FDA clearance and immediate U.S. commercial availability of the AngioVue™ Imaging System, a groundbreaking technology that provides a non-invasive way to visualize abnormal blood vessels in the retina to help physicians determine an appropriate course of treatment.
Sandoz, together with leading global charity World Child Cancer (WCC), is pleased to announce a new health initiative in the Philippines, aimed at improving the standard of care for children suffering from cancer.
Cancer survival rates for children in the Philippines are less than 20%, compared to an average of 80% in developed countries. The goal of the new partnership, further details of which will be announced next month, is to help “even the odds” by supporting the development of specialist treatment centers in the island region of Mindanao.
The WCC partnership highlights Sandoz’s commitment to address key global healthcare challenges by pioneering new approaches to increase access to medicine.
Guerbet announced that it has received 510K clearance from the US Food and Drug Agency (FDA) for its OptiOne™ Single-Head Contrast Delivery System, featuring advanced multi-purpose functionality for CT imaging procedures.
RedHill Biopharma Ltd, announced the successful completion of a first-in-man pharmacokinetic (PK) study of BEKINDA™ 12 mg formulation, intended to be administered in the Phase II study for the treatment of diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D). RedHill further announced the submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the Investigational New Drug (IND) protocol for the Phase II clinical study with BEKINDA™ 12 mg for IBS-D, planned to be initiated in the coming weeks, subject to final preparations.
A new class of antigens has been identified that may be a contributing factor to type 1 diabetes. Type-1 diabetes is the auto-immune form of diabetes, in which insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas are destroyed by body's own immune cells, a study finds.
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