China

China has the fastest growing economy in the world, and the fastest growing uptake of technology in the world. Not surprisingly, its biotechnology industry is booming. Its potential not only as a pr...

H7N9 Bird Flu Virus

Avian influenza A H7 viruses are a group of influenza viruses that normally circulate among birds. The avian influenza A(H7N9) virus is one subgroup among the larger group of H7 viruses. Although so...

College Hill - international business communications consultancy

College Hill is a growing international business communications consultancy with offices in Europe, China, India, South Africa and the United States. College Hill's wide range of complementar...

Alternative Medicine - news, reports, trials and publications

Traditional Chinese Medicine (simplified Chinese: 中医; traditional Chinese: 中醫; pinyin: zhōng yī: "Chinese Medicine") refers to a broad range of medicine practices sharing common...

Cardiovascular

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the world’s most serious disease, killing 17.1 million people a year. CVDs are a group of disorders affecting the heart and blood vessels.  The most...

Nexavar use in Chinese patients nearly doubled in 2012

Use of Nexavar (sorafenib, from Bayer BAYN: DE and Onyx Pharmaceuticals) has nearly doubled in first-line advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients in China in 2012 from 2011, according to new...

Failure for Tarceva plus Nexavar in HCC after no survival benefit shown over Nexavar alone

Astellas/ Roche's Tarceva (erlotinib) when added to Bayer/ Onyx Pharmaceuticals' Nexavar (sorafenib) did not improve overall survival compared with Nexavar alone in patients with unresectable hepato...

India upholds compulsory license for Nexavar

India's Intellectual Property Appellate Board (IPAB) rejected a petition from Bayer AG (Xetra:BAYN) seeking a stay of an order granting Natco Pharma Ltd. (BSE:NATCO; NSE:NATCOPHAR) a compulsory licens...

Adding Tarceva to Nexavar no better than Nexavar alone for liver cancer

A Phase III trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of the addition of Roche's Tarceva (erlotinib) tablets to German drug major Bayer's (BAYN: DE) Nexavar (sorafenib) - which is being commercialized...

Fall in wholesale prices of medicines in Finland reimbursed by KELA in 2012

Medicines wholesale prices in Finland continued to decline in 2012, following the trend prevailing throughout the 2000s. According to the index published by Statistics Finland, medicines' wholesale pr...

Aveo Pharmaceuticals: A Hidden Gem Or A Hidden Disaster

ByJohn Li:On November 28,2012 , Aveo Pharmaceuticals (AVEO) announced that the FDA has accepted its Tivozanib NDA package for review with a FDA decision of July 28, 2013. Despite the FDA's acceptance...

Bayer says Nexavar-Tarceva trial unsuccessful

(Reuters) - The combination of cancer tablets Tarceva and Nexavar to treat patients with liver cancer failed to improve overall survival rates compared with standard Nexavar treatment in a late-stage...

UPDATE 2-Bayer says Nexavar-Tarceva trial unsuccessful

July 23 (Reuters) - The combination of cancer tablets Tarceva and Nexavar to treat patients with liver cancer failed to improve overall survival rates compared with standard Nexavar treatment in a lat...

Price discounts on alcohol in a city in northern England.

Aims To describe the extent and nature of price discounts on alcohol in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Methods An observational survey in stores licensed for off-sales in December 2010 to January 2011....

Do generic firms and the Spanish public purchaser respond to consumer price differences of generics under reference pricing?

OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of competition on the consumer price and the average price paid by the National Health System (NHS) under reference pricing in the Spanish generic market. METHODS: Des...

Comparing pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement policies in Croatia to the European Union Member States.

Aim. To perform a comparative analysis of the pharmaceutical pricing and reimbursement systems in Croatia and the 27 European Union (EU) Member States. Methods. Knowledge about the pharmaceutical syst...

16 for the price of 10: effects of a ban on multi-buy alcohol.

Multi-buy is one method by which retailers discount alcoholic beverage sales. It is common in the UK. A Scottish ban on multi-buys had an immediate impact on sales. Because other methods for lowering...

Wholesale geographic surgery.