Tag: monday
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GSK forms bioelectronics venture with Alphabet
British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline announced Monday that it will form a joint venture with Google's parent company Alphabet to research and develop so-called bioelectronic medicines. GSK has agreed with Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google Life Sciences) to create a new company called Galvani Bioelectronics, it said in a statement.
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GSK, Google parent company to make bioelectronic medicine
LONDON (AP) — Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is forming a joint venture with a unit of Google’s parent that will invest 540 million pounds ($714 million) in the relatively new field of bioelectronic medicine.
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GSK, Google parent company to make bioelectronic medicine
LONDON (AP) — Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline is forming a joint venture with a unit of Google’s parent that will invest 540 million pounds ($714 million) in the relatively new field of bioelectronic medicine.
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FDA approves Shire’s keenly-watched eye drug
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Shire Plc's lifitegrast eye drops for treating signs and symptoms of dry eye disease, allowing the company to bring to market its most important pipeline medicine. Lifitegrast, which will be marketed as Xiidra in the United States, is expected to launch in the third…
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FDA approves Shire’s keenly-watched eye drug
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Shire Plc's lifitegrast eye drops for treating signs and symptoms of dry eye disease, allowing the company to bring to market its most important pipeline medicine. Lifitegrast, which will be marketed as Xiidra in the United States, is expected to launch in the third…
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Jailed U.S. soldier Manning attempted suicide last week: lawyers
Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier imprisoned for leaking classified files to pro-transparency site WikiLeaks, attempted to commit suicide last week, her lawyers said on Monday. “Last week, Chelsea made a decision to end her life,” attorneys Chase Strangio, Vincent Ward and Nancy Hollander said in a joint statement. The statement confirms earlier media reports that…
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Pot-in-schools debate returns to Colorado
DENVER (AP) — A new Colorado law allowing medical marijuana use at public schools is getting a second look Monday in a House committee.
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Pot-in-schools debate returns to Colorado
DENVER (AP) — A new Colorado law allowing medical marijuana use at public schools is getting a second look Monday in a House committee.
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Roche says FDA fast tracks atezolizumab in specific type of lung cancer
Roche Holding AG said on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted priority review for atezolizumab for treating people with a specific type of lung cancer. The designation covers treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease expresses the protein PD-L1 as determined by an FDA-approved…
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Leading private-sector health system woos veterans in ads
CHICAGO (AP) — A leading hospital system in the U.S. is courting military veterans with a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, raising concerns from some veterans groups that private sector marketing could weaken the Department of Veterans Affairs health care system.