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Stealth announces results from three Bendavia Phase I clinical trials for mitochondrial dysfunction

Stealth Peptides Inc., a privately held biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies for diseases with unmet medical needs, announced today the results from three Phase I clinical trials of Bendavia, a novel compound that targets the mitochondrion to treat mitochondrial dysfunction, including ischemia reperfusion and microvascular injury.

9 Apr 2012

USPTO issues Notice of Allowance for Sunshine Biopharma's anti-tumor compound patent application

Sunshine Biopharma Inc. is pleased to announce that it has recently received notification that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a "Notice of Allowance" for the patent application covering its lead anti-tumor compound, Adva-27a. The allowed claims protect Adva-27a and extensively cover various formulations, derivatives and cancer applications.

9 Apr 2012

NIH awards Winston SBIR grant to develop Civamide for postherpetic neuralgia of TN

Winston Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,, announced that the National Institutes of Health has awarded Winston a grant under the Small Business Innovation Research program supporting the development of Civamide, a proprietary TRPV-1 receptor modulator, for the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia of the trigeminal nerve.

9 Apr 2012

MD Anderson initiates Phase 1/2 entinostat-lapatinib ditosylate combination study in metastatic breast cancer

Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage epigenetics oncology company, announced that investigators at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Department of Breast Medical Oncology have initiated a phase 1/2 study combining Syndax's lead product entinostat with lapatinib ditosylate (Tykerb) in patients with locally recurrent or distant relapsed metastatic breast cancer previously treated with trastuzumab (Herceptin).

9 Apr 2012

Nuron Biotech licenses DNA amyloid beta 42 vaccine for AD

Nuron Biotech, Inc. today announced it has licensed from VITRUVIAN BioMedical, Inc. a gene-based (DNA) amyloid beta 42 (Aβ42) vaccine in preclinical development for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

9 Apr 2012

Ampio submits pre-IND package on Zertane to FDA

Ampio Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a company that discovers and develops new uses for previously approved drugs and new molecular entities, announced today that it submitted to the FDA a pre IND package on Zertane, its on-demand premature ejaculation drug, for a meeting and discussion on the approval path under the 505(b) 2 regulation/registration requirement in the US.

9 Apr 2012

'Benefits and burdens' of participating in clinical research trials

In one of the first studies of its kind, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing researchers have identified what cancer patients consider the "benefits and burdens" of participating in clinical research trials.

7 Apr 2012

Regeneron, Sanofi announce clinical and regulatory update for ZALTRAP

Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Priority Review of the Biologics License Application (BLA) for the investigational agent ZALTRAP (aflibercept) concentrate for solution for infusion in combination with the irinotecan-fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) previously treated with an oxaliplatin-containing regimen.

6 Apr 2012

Key data from Boehringer Ingelheim's hepatitis C virus clinical trial programme

Key data from Boehringer Ingelheim's hepatitis C virus (HCV) clinical trial programme, HCVerso, focusing on interferon-free treatment, has been selected for inclusion in the official European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) press office activities.

6 Apr 2012

Tonix completes TNX-102 pharmacokinetic study on fibromyalgia syndrome

Tonix Pharmaceuticals Holding Corp., a specialty pharmaceutical company developing therapies for challenging disorders of the central nervous system completed a pharmacokinetic (PK) study of the first formulation of its lead drug, TNX-102, for the treatment of fibromyalgia syndrome.

6 Apr 2012

Sucampo announces positive results from lubiprostone phase 3 trial on OBD

Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced positive top-line results from an open-label phase 3 clinical trial designed to evaluate the long-term safety and efficacy of lubiprostone in opioid-induced bowel dysfunction (OBD) patients with chronic, non-cancer-related pain.

6 Apr 2012

Spectrum’s apaziquone Phase 3 trials on bladder cancer do not meet primary endpoint

Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, a biotechnology company with fully integrated commercial and drug development operations with a primary focus in hematology and oncology, today announced that the two double blind, randomized, placebo controlled, Phase 3 clinical trials for apaziquone did not meet their primary endpoint of a statistically significant difference in the rate of tumor recurrence at 2 years between the two arms.

6 Apr 2012

Akebia completes AKB-6548 Phase 2 study for anemia in CKD patients

Akebia Therapeutics, Inc., a pharmaceutical discovery and development company focused on anemia and vascular disorders, today announced that it has successfully completed a randomized, double-blinded, placebo-controlled Phase 2 dose-ranging study of AKB-6548 in patients with stage 3 and 4 chronic kidney disease (CKD).

6 Apr 2012

Vaccine injections given directly into pancreatic cancer tumors associated with stable disease

Research from The Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) shows that a series of vaccine injections given directly into a pancreatic cancer tumor is shown to be associated with stable disease in patients who are not candidates for surgery.

5 Apr 2012

Belagenpumatucel-L improves survival for patients with stage 3B/4 NSCLC

Long-term follow-up of a phase II clinical trial showed encouraging survival in some patients with stage 3B/4 non-small cell lung cancer treated with belagenpumatucel-L, a therapeutic vaccine.

5 Apr 2012

Results from Abbott’s multiple interferon-free Phase 2 HCV studies to be presented at ILC 2012

Abbott will present clinical trial results from two different interferon-free, Phase 2 studies for the treatment of hepatitis C (HCV) at the International Liver Congress 2012 (ILC 2012), the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), April 18-22 in Barcelona, Spain.

5 Apr 2012

BIND announces data from BIND-014 Phase 1 trials on prostate cancer

Nanomedicine research at the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT funded by a $5 million grant from the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) has delivered the first nanomedicine shown to successfully target prostate cancer cells and deliver docetaxel chemotherapy in high concentrations in Phase I clinical trials.

5 Apr 2012

Soy may effectively reduce menopausal hot flashes

In the most comprehensive study to date to examine the effects of soy on menopause, researchers have found that two daily servings of soy can reduce the frequency and severity of hot flashes by up to 26 percent, compared to a placebo.

5 Apr 2012

BIND presents results from BIND-014 Phase 1 trial on solid tumors at AACR 2012

BIND Biosciences, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of highly selective targeted therapeutics called Accurins, announced today the presentation of late-breaker clinical data for BIND-014, the lead drug candidate within a new class of targeted therapeutics that are programmed to concentrate at tumors, at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2012 Annual Meeting.

5 Apr 2012

Soy isoflavones more effective in alleviating hot flashes

Archer Daniels Midland Company is pleased to share the results of a new meta-analysis on the effects of soy isoflavones in the alleviation of menopausal hot flashes.

5 Apr 2012

Drug Trial News

Stealth announces results from three Bendavia Phase I clinical trials for mitochondrial dysfunction

USPTO issues Notice of Allowance for Sunshine Biopharma's anti-tumor compound patent application

NIH awards Winston SBIR grant to develop Civamide for postherpetic neuralgia of TN

MD Anderson initiates Phase 1/2 entinostat-lapatinib ditosylate combination study in metastatic breast cancer

Nuron Biotech licenses DNA amyloid beta 42 vaccine for AD

Ampio submits pre-IND package on Zertane to FDA

'Benefits and burdens' of participating in clinical research trials

Regeneron, Sanofi announce clinical and regulatory update for ZALTRAP

Key data from Boehringer Ingelheim's hepatitis C virus clinical trial programme

Tonix completes TNX-102 pharmacokinetic study on fibromyalgia syndrome

Sucampo announces positive results from lubiprostone phase 3 trial on OBD

Spectrum’s apaziquone Phase 3 trials on bladder cancer do not meet primary endpoint

Akebia completes AKB-6548 Phase 2 study for anemia in CKD patients

Vaccine injections given directly into pancreatic cancer tumors associated with stable disease

Belagenpumatucel-L improves survival for patients with stage 3B/4 NSCLC

Results from Abbott’s multiple interferon-free Phase 2 HCV studies to be presented at ILC 2012

BIND announces data from BIND-014 Phase 1 trials on prostate cancer

Soy may effectively reduce menopausal hot flashes

BIND presents results from BIND-014 Phase 1 trial on solid tumors at AACR 2012

Soy isoflavones more effective in alleviating hot flashes

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