AMAG Launches Anemia Drug in Europe
AMAG launches anemia drug in Europe
Filed under: drug treatment news 2012
… European regulators for Rienso in June 2012 for treatment of iron-deficiency anemia in patients with chronic kidney disease, which is the same indication as the U.S. version, Feraheme, which was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in …
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Sanofi draws fire over cost of MS drug Lemtrada
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The injectable drug, chemically known as alemtuzumab, was sold until September 2012 under the name Campath as treatment for leukemia and given more frequently at a higher dosage. "There is concern that with a license for multiple sclerosis, the cost of …
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Failed AstraZeneca Drugs Seen Holding Key to Next Viagra
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By Allison Connolly – 2012-10-31T20:38:47Z. (Corrects clinical trial sponsor in ninth paragraph.) A failed prostate cancer drug might reverse Alzheimer's. A former lung disease medicine may stop the ravages of muscular dystrophy. An experimental …
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Europe approves high-price gene therapy
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LONDON | Fri Nov 2, 2012 7:59am EDT. LONDON (Reuters) – European officials have approved the Western world's first gene therapy drug from a small Dutch biotech company, in a milestone for the novel medical technology that fixes faulty genes.
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