Companies - January 20, 2015
Cytomed to Make Flu Drug in Finland
Russian-owned company Cytomed, which has a pharmaceutical plant near Lappeenranta in eastern Finland, won approval from the Finnish Medicines Agency to start production of its influenza medicine Cytovir-3. Cytomed’s Finnish pharmaceutical plant was built in 2012 and is focused on producing drugs for the Russian market. Julia Volkov, Cytomed’s CEO in Finland, said exports to […]
Drug Development Pharma - January 20, 2015
Swiss to Launch Diabetes Drug
Novo Nordisk announced that Switzerland is the first country to launch Xultophy® (IDegLira) for people with type 2 diabetes. Xultophy® is the first combination of a basal insulin [Tresiba® (insulin degludec)] and a GLP-1 analogue [Victoza® (liraglutide)]. Xultophy® is administered as a single injection once a day independently of meals. It is intended for use in adults with type 2 diabetes who […]
Uncategorized - January 20, 2015
Could Lasers Replace Chemo?
Physicists from the University of Copenhagen and doctors from Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, are investigating whether nanoparticles and laser light can replace chemotherapy in the treatment of malignant tumors. Researchers have found that when laser light strikes nanoparticles placed in a malignant tumor, the particles can get so hot that they burn the tumor away. While the results from tests on mice were […]
Uncategorized - January 16, 2015
New Test for Drug-Resistant Bacteria
A group of Swedish researchers working at Uppsala University, the SciLifeLab in Stockholm and Uppsala University Hospital have discovered a faster way to identify a bacterial species and its susceptibility to antibiotics. Bacteria signal whether they are resistant when they approach antibiotics. If they are resistant to a particular type of antibiotics they continue to grow normally. If they are […]
Pharma Business - January 16, 2015
Astra CEO Not Worried by Pressures to Drop Prices
AstraZeneca Chief Executive Officer Pascal Soriot told the audience at the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, CA, that he is not worried about predictions that payers such as Express Scripts will be ramping up the pressure on global pharmaceutical companies to reduce drug prices. According to Soriot, AstraZeneca “has built pricing pressure into […]
Uncategorized - January 14, 2015
Study: Some Workers Use Drugs
A new study from the University of Oslo has found that amphetamines are often used by men with physically strenuous jobs on the margins of the labor market. One of the study’s researchers, Willy Pedersen, professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography and expert on substance abuse, was surprised by the findings. “We […]
