English farmers first to get Merck’s new vaccine for cows and sheep

Posted: May 20th, 2013  |  Company/topic: Merck
Website: MedCity News
LONDON (Reuters) - British farmers will be the first in Europe to get a vaccine against Schmallenberg virus, a new livestock disease that hit the continent in 2011. Britain's Department for Environme…
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Pfizer halts study of inotuzumab ozogamicin for lymphoma

Posted: May 20th, 2013  |  Company/topic: Pfizer
Website: MedCity News
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc, which has been on a hot streak with three recent approvals of cancer drugs, stumbled on Monday, saying it was halting a late-stage trial of a drug for aggressive non-Hodgkin ly…
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Sanofi plans regulatory filings for myelofibrosis drug treatment after successful drug trial

Posted: May 18th, 2013  |  Company/topic: Sanofi
Website: MedCity News
PARIS (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi said a late-stage Phase III trial of a drug designed to treat myelofibrosis led to positive results. Myelofibrosis is a rare, life-threatening condition that…
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First phase III trial of Novo Nordisk’s hemophilia drug complete

Posted: May 17th, 2013  |  Company/topic: Novo Nordisk
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's Novo Nordisk, the world's biggest insulin producer, said on Friday it had completed the first phase III trial of a hemophilia drug, N9-GP. Novo Nordisk said in a stat…
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