AstraZeneca and Ironwood announce linaclotide collaboration for China
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AstraZeneca and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced an agreement to co-develop and co-commercialise Ironwood’s linaclotide in China. Linaclotide is the first and only guanylate cyclase-C (GC-C) agonist approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, in August, for irritable bowel syndrome with constipation (IBS-C) and chronic idiopathic constipation (CIC).
Abbott announces three-year long-term data evaluating efficacy with HUMIRA® (Adalimumab)
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Abbott announced results from an analysis of three-year long-term data from an ongoing open-label extension of the HUMIRA® (adalimumab) ULTRA 1 and ULTRA 2 studies. Adult patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) who have had an inadequate response to certain other medications and were treated with HUMIRA were evaluated for symptom improvement for up to three years.
Abbott reports double digit earnings per share growth in the third quarter
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Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced financial results for the third quarter ended Sept. 30, 2012. Diluted earnings per share, excluding specified items, were $1.30, reflecting 10.2 percent growth, exceeding Abbott's guidance range. Diluted earnings per share under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) were $1.21, including specified items.
YERVOY® (ipilimumab) awarded prestigious Prix Galien USA 2012 for best biotechnology product
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) today announced that YERVOY® (ipilimumab), a novel immunotherapy and the first medicine approved for unresectable or metastatic melanoma in more than a decade, received the Prix Galien USA 2012 Award for Best Biotechnology Product.
Roche Group posts strong sales growth in the third quarter
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Roche sales grew 4% to 33.7 billion Swiss francs thanks to strong demand for its cancer medicines and its clinical lab business. Uptake of the Group's recently launched cancer medicines Zelboraf, Erivedge and Perjeta has been positive. The Diagnostics Division maintained its global market leadership due to strong sales to hospital and private clinical laboratories.
Boehringer Ingelheim congratulates Nobel Prize winner Prof. Brian Kobilka
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Boehringer Ingelheim congratulates Prof. Brian Kobilka of Stanford University, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Prof. Kobilka has made ground-breaking contributions to the understanding of how cells sense information from the autonomic nervous system and convert them into cellular responses.
UCB announces third research collaboration with Harvard University
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UCB announced that it has launched a third collaborative research project with Harvard that builds upon the innovative Research Alliance they both signed in 2011. The third research project named 'Mining the Human Microbiome' will be headed by Christophe Benoist, M.D., Ph.D., Dennis Kasper, M.D., and Diane Mathis, Ph.D., all Professors in the Division of Immunology in the Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology at Harvard Medical School.
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