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19 February, 2019

One of every six clinical trials that is carried out in Spain is already to investigate orphan drugs

Source: farmaindustria.es The commitment of the pharmaceutical industry to the research and development of treatments for rare diseases is indisputable and, as the data show, growing. […]
13 February, 2019

Spain attracts more than 250 clinical trials in oncohematology in the last four years

Source: Farmaindustria.es Various facts and arguments support the condition of Spain as an attractive country for the development of biopharmaceutical research projects: the quality of its […]
12 February, 2019

Develop new medicines, make them accessible in a sustainable environment and attract investments to the country, objectives of the pharmaceutical industry in Spain

Source: Farmaindustria.es Investigate and develop new medicines more and more precise and effective, facilitate the access of patients to these innovative drugs in an environment of […]
22 January, 2019

The Carlos III Health Institute announces new European calls for research

Source: actasanitaria.com The Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII) has announced that, through European programs, has “about five million euros” to participate in the latest calls open […]
14 January, 2019

AEMPS corrects its document on instructions for clinical trials in Spain

Source: actasanitaria.com The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Healthcare Products (AEMPS) has published the correction of errors of version 10 of the document of instructions for […]
8 January, 2019

A new refinement increases the safety of CAR-T therapy

Source: Immedicohospitalario.es Bellicum Pharma has reported the preliminary results of its phase I / II dose escalation study in 12 patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer treated […]
26 December, 2018

Investigations of the Carlos III National Center for Cardiovascular Research

Source: Immedicohospitalario.es The studies published by the CNIC scientists during the year 2017 consolidate this center as an institution of Spanish and international research excellence, highlighting […]
20 December, 2018

New method for the prediction of response to treatment in clinical trials

Source: immedicohospitalario.es Researchers from the universities of Vienna and Lancaster have developed a method aimed at improving precision medicine already during the clinical development phase of […]
14 December, 2018

Combining metformin and an antihypertensive is effective against tumors

Source: redaccionmedica.com A common medication for diabetes, combined with a drug against high blood pressure, is able to inhibit the growth of tumorese induce the death […]
12 December, 2018

Advances in therapies directed to lymphocytes in systemic lupus erythematosus

Source: immedicohospitalario.es Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with multifaceted and extremely variable clinical manifestations, characterized by relapses and outbreaks followed by periods of […]
4 December, 2018

More than 130,000 patients participate in 3,000 clinical trials in Spain

Source: Laverdad.es Spain has become the second country in the world where more clinical trials are carried out, only surpassed by the United States, the hegemonic […]
29 November, 2018

Farma-Biotech promotes nine projects on innovative drugs

Source: redaccionmedica.com Different Spanish biotechnology companies and research groups presented on Wednesday a total of nine advanced innovative drug development projects to representatives of 17 national […]
22 November, 2018

INCLIVA shows the possible improvement of atherosclerosis through a molecule

Source: actasanitaria.com Researchers from the Health Research Institute of the Hospital Clínico de Valencia (INCLIVA) have shown that a molecule used to treat cancer, called PD033299, […]
20 November, 2018

Novartis works with 50 molecules in the development of new CART therapies

Source: redaccionmedica.com The great results obtained with CAR-T therapies in cancer patients in whom chemotherapy has failed have focused the day ‘Towards a greater knowledge of […]
16 November, 2018

Astra Zeneca presents new indications on the benefits of Brilique

Source: redaccionmedica.com AstraZeneca has presented new analyzes of the Pegasus-Timi 54 trial in the framework of the Scientific Conferences of the American Heart Association. These findings […]
15 November, 2018

EMA publishes a report on the impact of Brexit on the authorization of medicines

Source: actasanitaria.com A day after knowing the draft agreement on Brexit that last Tuesday, November 13, reached the European Union (EU) and the British Government, the […]
8 November, 2018

Europe approves a new indication for Xtandi, from Astellas, for prostate cancer

Source: actasanitaria.com The European Commission has approved a new indication of enzalutamide, a drug whose trade name is Xtandi and which was registered by the pharmaceutical […]
5 November, 2018

Enhance R & D and protect intellectual property, petitions from the pharmaceutical industry to Europe

Source: actasanitaria.com In order to highlight the priorities of the sector when there are just over seven months left for the next European elections, a manifesto, […]
30 October, 2018

The AEMPS publishes new features in the treatment of drug registration dossiers

Source: actasanitaria.com The Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS) has published the news regarding the submission of requests for regulatory activities of medicines for […]
25 October, 2018

Cataluña allocates 9.5 million to Peris, its health innovation plan

Source: redaccionmedica.com The government has approved this Tuesday for 9.550.000 euros to attend the 2019 call for grants of the Strategic Plan for Research and Innovation […]
23 October, 2018

New advances in the treatment of head and neck tumors

Source: immedicohospitalario.es Immunotherapy with pembrolizumab improves survival in patients with head and neck cancer that has recurred or metastasized according to the most recent results of […]
19 October, 2018

Gilead increases its commitment to research in Spain targeting HIV

Source: redaccionmedica.com The biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences continues its commitment to research in our country, this time, developing a project to achieve the cure of HIV. […]
18 October, 2018

Breast cancer: the industry leads the research of 169 new drugs

Source: redaccionmedica.com Currently, the pharmaceutical industry has a total of 169 new drugs against breast cancer in the clinical research phase, a disease that encompasses the […]
16 October, 2018

Success of the first trial of Opsumit (Actelion) in portopulmonary hypertension

Source: redaccionmedica.com Actelion Pharmaceuticals has announced the results of the first randomized controlled trial in portopulmonary hypertension (HTPP). This study has shown that Opsumit (macitentan) significantly […]
10 October, 2018

Europe approves Verzenios, from Lilly, for the treatment of advanced breast cancer

Source: actasanitaria.com The European Commission has authorized the commercialization of Verzenios (abemaciclib), from the pharmaceutical company Lilly, as a treatment of locally advanced or metastatic breast […]
8 October, 2018

Genetic mutations also alter the nature of clinical trials

Source: immedicohospitalario.es New ways of researching and developing drugs, in their most advanced oncological aspects, urge health administrations, hospitals, patients and their organizations, Research Ethics Committees […]
5 October, 2018

VHIO develops a precision immunotherapy for breast cancer

Source: redaccionmedica.com Researchers at the Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology (VHIO) in Barcelona have achieved that immunotherapy attacks only the tumor cells of a type of […]
3 October, 2018

Nobel Prize for Medicine 2018 for cancer immunotherapy

Source: IntraMed The American James Allison and the Japanese Tasuku Honjo have won the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2018. The jury of the Karolinska Institute in […]
26 September, 2018

EMA gives a positive opinion to Gilenya, from Novartis, for minors with multiple sclerosis

Source: actasanitaria.com The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended the approval of the drug Gilenya (fingolimod), […]
21 September, 2018

ISCIII will represent Spain in the largest research appointment in Europe

Source: redaccionmedica.com The director of the Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII), Raquel Yotti Álvarez, in charge of the head of the Spanish delegation at the opening […]