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AstraZeneca's Iressa slows esophageal cancer in study

In a study, AstraZeneca's epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitor Iressa, or gefitinib, slowed disease progression but did -More- 

Japan To Rule On Iressa Deaths; Government Cleared

Japan's Supreme Court agreed to consider an appeal brought by families seeking damages from AstraZeneca KK, which imported the Iressa (gefitinib) lung cancer drug from its parent, the UK's AstraZeneca...

Japan To Rule On Iressa Responsibility For Deaths, Government Cleared

Japan's Supreme Court agreed to consider an appeal brought by families seeking damages from AstraZeneca KK, which imported the Iressa (gefitinib) lung cancer drug from its parent, the U.K.'s AstraZene...

New Zealand agrees to fund Iressa but amends Tarceva use

New Zealand's pharmaceutical management agency PHARMAC has approved the proposal to fund AstraZeneca's (LSE: AZN) Iressa (gefitinib) and to amend the Special Authority criteria applying to Roche's (RO...

Guangzhou Today, China Tomorrow? A Closer Look At Reimbursement Pilots For Iressa, Tarceva

AstraZeneca CEO Pascal Soriot sees tremendous potential for Iressa in China, where Roche’s Herceptin grew over 20% in 2012. Both companies have their high-priced targeted therapies in China’s firs...

Supreme Court rulings end Japan Iressa litigation

Japan's Supreme Court has rejected appeals from plaintiffs seeking redress for side-effects and deaths occurring during the use of AstraZeneca's lung cancer drug Iressa (gefitinib) and hoping to over...

Chinese Researchers Finds Tarceva/Iressa Combo Reverses Alzheimer's

A team of Chinese scientists working with U.S. counterparts concluded after a study that two drugs for treating non small-cell lung cancer, OSI Pharms'a Tarceva (erlotinib) and AstraZeneca's Iressa (g...

Second Japan High Court ruling on Iressa favours AstraZeneca

The Osaka High Court in Japan has issued a ruling in favour of AstraZeneca in a long-running case relating to side-effects and deaths during the use of the lung cancer drug Iressa (gefitinib). The d...

Asthma and allergy: Apoptotic cell clearance lets you breathe easy.

Genetic variants associated with protein C levels.

BACKGROUND: Normal protein C (PC) plasma levels range widely in the general population. Factors influencing normal PC levels are thought to influence the risk of venous thrombosis. Little is known abo...

Flow-simulated thrombin generation profiles as a predictor of thrombotic risk among pre-menopausal women.

A large number of individuals are at risk for deep venous thrombosis (DVT) due to alterations in multiple coagulation factors and inhibitors secondary to malignancy, drug interactions, or other genera...

A Sn(IV)-Porphyrin-Based Metal-Organic Framework for the Selective Photo-Oxygenation of Phenol and Sulfides.

A functional tin(IV)-porphyrin derivative was used as a building block to construct a novel 3D porous metal-organic framework (MOF). The MOF is built up from tin(IV)-porphyrin struts linking up Zn ato...

Estimation of stray coupling capacitances in biopotential measurements.

Biopotential measurements are very sensitive to electromagnetic interference (EMI) from power-lines. Interference conditions are mainly imposed by electric-field coupling, whose effects can be describ...