August 2012
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Hong Kong-based Lee’s Pharmaceutical will advance Windtree Therapeutics up to $3.9 million through the end of October 2017 during negotiations for Lee’s to acquire a controlling interest in Windtree. The first installment of the loan… Read more . . .
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Adherium has now manufactured and sold 100,000 of its Smartinhaler inhaler monitoring devices, the company has announced. According to Adherium, the Smartinhaler has been sold in more than 40 countries to date. The Smartinhaler platform… Read more . . .
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Hemispherx Biopharma has announced that a safety study of Ampligen plus FluMist in 25 healthy volunteers showed that intranasal Ampligen was generally well tolerated. Ampligen is a TLR-3 agonist, which the company is already developing… Read more . . .
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Aradigm Corporation has received a 2-year Small Business Initiative Research (SBIR) grant of about $972,000 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) for development of Linhaliq… Read more . . .
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According to Verona Pharma’s mid-year update, the company is developing MDI and DPI formulations of its RPL554, an inhaled PDE3/PDE4 inhibitor. Nebulized RPL554 is currently in Phase 2 development, and Verona reported positive results from… Read more . . .
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Innovus Pharmaceuticals says that it has ordered 220,000 units of FlutiCare, an OTC fluticasone propionate nasal spray, in preparation for its US launch in the fourth quarter of 2017. The company says that it will… Read more . . .
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The European Commission has approved Chiesi’s Trimbow beclometasone dipropionate/formoterol fumarate/glycopyrronium bromide MDI for the treatment of COPD in patients for whom an ICS/LABA combination is insufficient to control symptoms and prevent exacerbations, the company said.… Read more . . .
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Laboratory automation company Astech Projects, which manufactures the Xelair, Xelize, and Xelox ranges of automated inhaler testing systems, has announced a recent transition to the ISO 9001:2015 revised international standard for Quality Management Systems (QMS).… Read more . . .
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Lonza has announced the acquisition of Swiss contract micronization company Micro-Macinazione. The company recently completed its acquisition of Capsugel which had acquired US micronization specialist Powdersize in 2015. Capsugel announced an expansion of its micronization… Read more . . .
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The FDA has approved 40μg and 80μg strengths of Teva’s QVAR RediHaler beclomethasone dipropionate breath-actuated MDI for treatment of asthma in patients aged 4 and older, the company said. Teva said that it expects to… Read more . . .
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