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Skyepharma revenues were up 25% in 2013, the company said, in large part due to increased sales of its Flutiform fluticasone/formoterol MDI. The company also announced that it will seek to raise £112 million through… Read more . . .

NanoBio has announced that Merck has acquired exclusive rights to NanoBio’s NanoStat nanoemulsion adjuvant for an intranasal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine. Merck also acquired non-exclusive rights to the adjuvant for use in an intranasal… Read more . . .

Non-profit R&D organization Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has announced that it has received a 28-month contract extension worth $8.3 million from the US Department of Health and Human Services Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority… Read more . . .

Vectura has announced that under a license agreement with “the US division of a leading international pharmaceutical company” signed in 2011, it has reached a milestone associated with the US development of its VR315 salmeterol/fluticasone… Read more . . .

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, a court in Cologne, Germany has issued a preliminary injunction preventing Sandoz from marketing its AirFluSal Forspiro in Germany. GlaxoSmithKline had argued that Sandoz’s salmeterol/fluticasone DPI… Read more . . .

According to Mylan, the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia has upheld the validity of all of its patents related to Perforomist formoterol fumarate inhalation solution. The company says that… Read more . . .

According to St. Renatus, Blue Ocean Holdings is investing an additional $5 million in the company. The funds will go toward completion of St. Renatus’s New Drug Application (NDA) for its nasal mist dental anesthesia… Read more . . .

Alexza Pharmaceuticals has announced that its European partner Ferrer has launched Adasuve loxapine inhalation powder for the treatment of agitation in schizophrenic or bipolar patients in Romania. Ferrer has a distribution agreement with Galenica for… Read more . . .

Vectura has announced that it will acquire Activaero for a total of €130 million ($181 million). The company cited both Activaero’s nebulizer technology and its pipeline of respiratory drugs as part of the rationale for… Read more . . .