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Merck Receives Breakthrough Therapy Designation from U.S. Food and Drug Administration for KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) in Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma (cHL)
2016-04-18 14:00:00| Merck.com - Product News
Dateline City: KENILWORTH, N.J. Fourth Designation for KEYTRUDA Follows Breakthrough Status in Advanced Melanoma, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, and Colorectal Cancer KENILWORTH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation to KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab), the companys anti-PD-1 therapy, for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory classical Hodgkin lymphoma (cHL). This is the fourth Breakthrough Therapy Designation granted for KEYTRUDA. Language: English Contact: MerckMedia:Pamela Eisele, 267-305-3558An Phan, 908-255-6325orInvestors:Teri Loxam, 908-740-1986Justin Holko, 908-740-1879 Ticker Slug: Ticker: MRK Exchange: NYSE read more
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PTC Jumps Most Since 2014 as U.K. Regulator Recommends DMD Drug
2016-04-16 18:41:20| Biotech - Topix.net
PTC Therapeutics Inc. soared the most since May 2014 after the U.K.'s health-cost regulator recommended its drug for a deadly muscle disease. The U.K.'s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, known as NICE, recommended PTC's drug Translarna for some patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in England, according to a statement Friday.
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Drug manufacturer must pay $125M in health care fraud case
2016-04-16 02:35:06| Biotech - Topix.net
" A federal judge in Boston has ordered the former pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott to pay $125 million to resolve criminal and civil claims in a health care fraud case. U.S. District Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV imposed the sentence Friday, six months after the company pleaded guilty in connection with a scheme to illegally promote its drugs.
Carbadox, a drug hog farmers cant afford to ditch
2016-04-15 18:35:00| National Hog Farmer
Carbadox is a drug of choice among U.S. hog producers to safely control bacterial diseases. Last week, the FDA took the first steps to take this valuable drug away. read more
Lilly moves Alzheimer's drug into late-stage testing
2016-04-12 05:34:56| Food - Topix.net
Alzheimer's disease is a stubborn malady. Not only does it cripple a person's ability to think and remember, it has baffled researchers for years on how to attack or treat it, causing numerous expensive setbacks.
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