Pharma News, 2016

NEW YORK, NY, USA I December 1, 2016 I Pfizer Inc.

AstraZeneca has signed a wide-ranging deal with private biotech firm Bicycle Therapeutics to develop a novel class of small molecule medicines for treating respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic di...

A federal jury in Dallas on Thursday ordered Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today apologized to the people of Haiti, expressing deep regret for the loss of life and suffering caused by the country’s cholera epidemic, and outlined...

KONSTANZ, Germany & OSAKA, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TOKYO.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is now backing the use of three medicines to prevent breast cancer in women with a family history of the disease, adding anastrozole to the mix fo...

US regulators have agreed to undertake a priority review EMD Serono's avelumab as a potential treatment for metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), a rare and aggressive disease in which c...

A recent study from the University of Eastern Finland shows that among users of antidementia drugs, persons using memantine have the highest risk of pneumonia.

TOKYO — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has instructed his cabinet ministers to review the pricing system for drugs and draw up a basic policy by the end of the year in a bid to curb ballooning medical co...

The Herston Health Precinct in Brisbane, Queensland, is in the center of seven of the city’s medical institutes, including the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) that already imple...

Janssen has filed its potential new psoriasis therapy guselkumab with the European Medicines Agency, hot on the heels of the drug's submission in the US.

A World War One antiseptic could step in both as a frontline anti-viral treatment and a key to the fight against antibiotic resistance.