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Tiltan Pharma initiates enrollment in TL-118 Phase 2 trial for metastatic pancreatic cancer

Tiltan Pharma Ltd. today announced that it has enrolled the first U.S. patient, at White Plains Hospital in Westchester County N.Y., in a Phase 2 clinical trial of its anti-angiogenic product, TL-118, for the treatment of metastatic pancreatic cancer.

14 Nov 2012

IDMC reviews data from Nanobiotix’s NBTXR3 Phase I study on advanced soft tissue sarcoma

Nanobiotix, announced today that the Independent Data Monitoring Committee (IDMC) has reviewed the data of the first 6 patients treated in the phase I Study with the lead product NBTXR3 for the treatment of advanced Soft Tissue Sarcoma of the extremity. Based on the review of the safety data, the IDMC has unanimously recommended continuing the enrollment in the study according to the protocol. This trial is realized in the Institut Gustave Roussy, France.

13 Nov 2012

Abbott releases details on phase 3 hepatitis C registrational program

Abbott today released details on its phase 3 hepatitis C registrational program following promising results from its phase 2b clinical trial, known as Aviator, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease (AASLD) in Boston.

13 Nov 2012

RTS,S vaccine candidate can help protect African infants against malaria

International African Vaccinology Conference, Cape Town, South Africa-Results from a pivotal, large-scale Phase III trial, published online today in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that the RTS,S malaria vaccine candidate can help protect African infants against malaria.

9 Nov 2012

Omeros to present results from first pivotal Phase 3 trial of OMS302 at AAO annual meeting

Omeros Corporation today reported that it will present data from its first pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating OMS302 at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) Annual Meeting, which will take place from November 10 through November 13 in Chicago, Illinois.

9 Nov 2012

Immunomic Therapeutics initiates JRC-LAMP-vax vaccine Phase I trial in Sugi allergy

Immunomic Therapeutics, Inc., a leader in developing novel allergy immunotherapies, announced today that it has dosed the first patient in a Phase I clinical trial of its lead candidate, JRC-LAMP-vax vaccine, at its clinical site in Honolulu, Hawaii. Initial subjects include Japanese ex-patriates previously exposed to Japanese red cedar, or "Sugi," as it is known in Japan.

9 Nov 2012

Positive results from Palatin’s bremelanotide Phase 2B trial on female sexual dysfunction

Palatin Technologies, Inc. today reported positive top-line results, including the successful achievement of statistical significance for the primary endpoint and key secondary endpoints in its Phase 2B clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of bremelanotide for the treatment of female sexual dysfunction (FSD).

9 Nov 2012

Plexxikon updates Zelboraf Phase 1 data on BRAF V600E mutation-positive melanoma

Plexxikon today announced that updated Phase 1 clinical data of Zelboraf (vemurafenib) were presented at the Society for Melanoma Research (SMR) 2012 Congress, held November 8-11 in Los Angeles, CA.

8 Nov 2012

Patient recruitment complete for immatics IMA901 Phase 3 trial for renal cell carcinoma

immatics biotechnologies GmbH, a biopharmaceutical company developing rationally designed therapeutic vaccines that are active against cancer, announced today that it has completed patient recruitment into the pivotal phase 3 trial evaluating its lead cancer vaccine IMA901 for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The trial has completed patient inclusion and it is expected that around 345 patients will be randomized across 10 countries in the US and Europe.

8 Nov 2012

FDA grants Albireo's A4250 orphan-drug designation for treatment of PFIC and PBC

Albireo AB, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in gastroenterology, today announced that A4250 (an inhibitor of the ileal bile acid transporter, IBAT/ASBT) has been granted orphan-drug designation by the U.S Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Progressive Familial Intrahepatic Cholestasis (PFIC) and Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC).

8 Nov 2012

BioCryst completes planned interim analysis of peramivir Phase 3 trial for serious influenza

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced completion of the planned interim analysis of the peramivir Phase 3 trial in patients admitted to the hospital with serious influenza. The difference between peramivir and control groups for the primary endpoint was small and the recalculated sample size was greater than the predefined futility boundary of 320 subjects. Based on this information, the independent data monitoring committee (DMC) recommended that the study be terminated for futility.

8 Nov 2012

Stapled Peptide oncology drug candidate exhibits robust efficacy in xenograft cancer models

Aileron Therapeutics, Inc. and its collaborator Roche today announced new results of a preclinical study of its Stapled Peptide oncology drug candidate ATSP-7041, which exhibited robust efficacy in MDM2 and MDMX xenograft cancer models.

8 Nov 2012

Duration of ibuprofen use may reduce risk of bladder cancer in northern New England patients

Dartmouth researchers have found that duration of ibuprofen use was associated with a reduced risk of bladder cancer in patients in northern New England, which has a high mortality rate of this disease. In a 2012 collaborative project with the National Cancer Institute, Margaret Karagas, PhD, co-director, Cancer Epidemiology & Chemoprevention program at Norris Cotton Cancer Center, and Professor of Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, and Richard Waddell, D.Sc, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine, looked for connections between ibuprofen use and bladder cancer.

7 Nov 2012

Teva announces additional data from QNASL Phase III program on seasonal allergic rhinitis

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. announced today that additional data from the Phase III clinical program for QNASL- (beclomethasone dipropionate) Nasal Aerosol will be presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology (ACAAI) in Anaheim, CA on November 8-13, 2012.

7 Nov 2012

Arisaph’s ARI-3037MO well tolerated in healthy male and female volunteers

Arisaph Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced today during an oral presentation at the American Heart Association (AHA) meeting in Los Angeles, CA that its niacin analog, ARI-3037MO, was extremely well tolerated in a single-ascending dose (SAD) and a multiple-ascending dose (MAD) trial in healthy male and female volunteers.

7 Nov 2012

Synta announces interim results from docetaxel Phase 2b/3 trial on NSCLC

Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. announced today that interim results from the Phase 2b/3 GALAXY trial will be presented at the Chemotherapy Foundation Symposium in New York City on Friday, November 9 during the 11:45 a.m. session on new agents for lung cancer. Presenting this data at the conference will be Dr. Suresh Ramalingham, Professor, Hematology & Medical Oncology, and Director, Translational Thoracic Malignancies Program, of the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.

7 Nov 2012

People more likely to take heart medicines in combo pill

People are much more likely to take heart medicines if they're combined in one pill, according to a late-breaking clinical trial presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2012.

7 Nov 2012

Treatment with AMG 145 reduces LDL cholesterol

Amgen today announced that results from the LAPLACE-TIMI 57 and MENDEL Phase 2 studies evaluating AMG 145 in hypercholesterolemic patients with or without statins, respectively, showed that treatment with AMG 145 resulted in a statistically significant reduction in low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol.

7 Nov 2012

Positive results from Santarus and Pharming’s RUCONEST Phase III trial on HAE

Santarus, Inc. and Pharming Group NV today announced that their pivotal Phase III clinical study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the investigational drug RUCONEST (recombinant human C1 esterase inhibitor) 50 U/kg for the treatment of acute attacks of angioedema in patients with Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) met the primary endpoint of time to beginning of symptom relief.

7 Nov 2012

Results from liraglutide and exenatide head-to-head comparison trial on type 2 diabetes

A direct, head-to-head comparison of two of the newer treatments available for type 2 diabetes yielded mixed results.

7 Nov 2012

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Tiltan Pharma initiates enrollment in TL-118 Phase 2 trial for metastatic pancreatic cancer

IDMC reviews data from Nanobiotix’s NBTXR3 Phase I study on advanced soft tissue sarcoma

Abbott releases details on phase 3 hepatitis C registrational program

RTS,S vaccine candidate can help protect African infants against malaria

Omeros to present results from first pivotal Phase 3 trial of OMS302 at AAO annual meeting

Immunomic Therapeutics initiates JRC-LAMP-vax vaccine Phase I trial in Sugi allergy

Positive results from Palatin’s bremelanotide Phase 2B trial on female sexual dysfunction

Plexxikon updates Zelboraf Phase 1 data on BRAF V600E mutation-positive melanoma

Patient recruitment complete for immatics IMA901 Phase 3 trial for renal cell carcinoma

FDA grants Albireo's A4250 orphan-drug designation for treatment of PFIC and PBC

BioCryst completes planned interim analysis of peramivir Phase 3 trial for serious influenza

Stapled Peptide oncology drug candidate exhibits robust efficacy in xenograft cancer models

Duration of ibuprofen use may reduce risk of bladder cancer in northern New England patients

Teva announces additional data from QNASL Phase III program on seasonal allergic rhinitis

Arisaph’s ARI-3037MO well tolerated in healthy male and female volunteers

Synta announces interim results from docetaxel Phase 2b/3 trial on NSCLC

People more likely to take heart medicines in combo pill

Treatment with AMG 145 reduces LDL cholesterol

Positive results from Santarus and Pharming’s RUCONEST Phase III trial on HAE

Results from liraglutide and exenatide head-to-head comparison trial on type 2 diabetes

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