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Actavis has announced that it is relaunching 0.25 and 0.5 mg vials of budesonide inhalation suspension, a generic version of AstraZeneca’s Pulmicort Respules, after the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit lifted… Read more . . .

Pennsylvania-based Egalet Corporation has announced that it will begin promoting Sprix ketorolac tromethamine nasal spray in the second quarter of 2015. Sprix is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) for the short-term treatment of moderate to… Read more . . .

California-based InCarda Therapeutics (formerly Pleiades Cardio-Therapeutics) has announced that it raised over $5 million with the possibility of an additional $1.5 million in a private financing round led by Morningside Venture. According to the company,… Read more . . .

According to Mylan, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has affirmed a lower court’s March 2014 decision upholding the validity of four Mylan patents related to Perforomist formoterol fumarate inhalation solution… Read more . . .

AstraZeneca announced that it has entered into a five-year partnership agreement with patient network PatientsLikeMe for access to patient-reported data in several treatment areas, including respiratory. PatientsLikeMe offers a program called “data for good,” whose… Read more . . .

CDMO Molecular Profiles has announced that the company has a new name: Juniper Pharma Services. The company, whose services include formulation development and clinical trial manufacturing of dry powder inhalers, was acquired in 2013 by… Read more . . .

Vectura has announced that it will close the former Activaero nebulizer manufacturing site in Gemünden, Germany by March 2016, transfering many of the site’s operations to other Vectura facilities in Germany and the UK. Commercial… Read more . . .

The European Patent Office has granted Evoke Pharma patent no. 2376075 for its EVK-001 intranasal metoclopramide for the treatment of diabetic gastroparesis symptoms in women, the company said. Earlier this year, Evoke announced that Phase… Read more . . .

Aptar Pharma has announced that a new budesonide DPI launched in China by Shanghai Sine Promod Pharmaceutical is the first marketed product to incorporate Aptar’s new Twister device. The new 200µg dose budesonide inhaler is… Read more . . .

Insmed Incorporated has announced that it is offering 10 million shares of its common stock at $20.65 per share, which it expects to generate net proceeds of about $194 million. The company says that it… Read more . . .