Business
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Winston Pharmaceuticals a $375,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to support Phase 1 development of its civamide nasal spray for the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia (PHN)… Read more . . .
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Merck has issued a statement saying that the company “firmly believes its patent for Nasonex nasal spray is valid and infringed and will vigorously defend its intellectual property rights in a bench trial against Apotex… Read more . . .
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Two dry powder inhalers have been named as finalists in the 2012 Medical Design Excellence Awards sponsored by Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry. Sun Pharmaceutical’s Combitide Starhaler and Novartis’s TOBI Podhaler with Pulmosphere technology are… Read more . . .
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Almirall has licensed European rights to aclidinium bromide, both as a monotherapy and in combination with formoterol to Italian pharmaceutical company Menarini. The agreement covers most of the EU except for the UK, the Netherlands… Read more . . .
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After spurning repeated offers from Valeant, ISTA Pharmaceuticals has agreed to be acquired by Bausch + Lomb for $9.10 per share in cash, a total of about $500 million. Valeant had offered $7.50 per share.… Read more . . .
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A Massachusetts engineering firm called Enginasion has disclosed details of proprietary DPI-filling technology it says that it developed for a pharmaceutical client that needed accurate dispensing of a highly cohesive inhaled dry powder formulation into… Read more . . .
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According to GlaxoSmithKline and Theravance, the two companies have now completed all studies for the Relovair fluticasone furoate (FF)/vilanterol (VI) DPI for both COPD and asthma, and they plan to move forward now with regulatory… Read more . . .
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OINDP testing specialist NextBreath has successfully completed an evaluation by the World Health Organization (WHO) Performance Quality System (PQS) as a testing facility for nasal spray vaccine administration. The company is now accredited to perform… Read more . . .
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Belgian biopharmaceutical company Ablynx has announced that Boehringer Ingelheim will extend funding for discovery, development, and commercialization of Ablynx’s Nanobody therapeutics for an additional two years, until September 2014. One of the Ablynx programs ALX-0171,… Read more . . .
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Novartis has launched its once-daily Arcapta Neohaler indacaterol inhalation powder 75 mcg for the maintenance treatment of COPD in the US. The FDA approved the indacaterol product at the 75 mcg level in July 2011… Read more . . .
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