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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 […]
18 September, 2018

Lilly Foundation awards a study of protein kinase in liver disease

Source: Actasanitaria.com Within the framework of the 41st Annual Congress of the Spanish Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SEBBM), which is being held in Santander, […]
13 November, 2023

Farmaindustria’s protection of personal data in research is already a benchmark in Europe and is a further incentive to attract clinical trials to Spain.

The Code of Conduct regulating the processing of personal data in clinical trials approved in 2022 makes it easier for companies and researchers to correctly comply […]
2 November, 2023

Medicines for rare diseases already account for 39% of those authorised in Europe, but take more than two years to reach Spain

The director of Farmaindustria’s Access Department, Isabel Pineros, participates in the XVI International Congress on Rare Diseases: “In recent years we have seen great advances in […]
30 October, 2023

New drugs reduce cancer deaths in Spain by almost 30%.

This is demonstrated by a recent study by Professor Frank R. Lichtenberg of Columbia University, which has just been published in the journal Value in Health. […]
24 October, 2023

Precision medicine opens new hopes in breast cancer: 14 targeted therapies authorized since 2018

On World Disease Day, which is celebrated on October 19, Farmaindustria remembers the importance of clinical trials, the previous step for the arrival of innovative treatments […]
17 October, 2023

Farmaindustria launches a proposal to speed up the delivery of innovative medicines to patients in cases where the benefit is most relevant

The document proposes, without the need for a regulatory change, a procedure that would allow the equitable arrival of drugs that meet certain criteria that make […]
11 October, 2023

Urgent measures are needed to encourage innovation and production and enable Europe to make up lost ground.

elglobal.es   In a political context with elections called for the European Parliament at the beginning of June 2024 and with Spain holding the presidency of […]
9 October, 2023

Paediatric clinical research advances in Spain driven by collaboration between researchers, healthcare professionals and the pharmaceutical industry

Between 2020 and 2022, 446 clinical trials with children and adolescents were conducted in our country, almost half of them focused on rare diseases and 90.4% […]
4 October, 2023

“Artificial intelligence and technology are driving digital therapies, which benefit not only patients, but the healthcare system and society as a whole”.

In recent years, the number of applications capable of interacting with patients to prevent, manage or treat diseases has increased, and which can also generate data […]
2 October, 2023

Decentralisation of trials, networking and digitisation, proposals to improve patient participation in clinical research

The 7th Congress of Patients’ Organisations, organised by the POP, analyses the application of the new European Regulation on Clinical Trials. Farmaindustria’s director general, Juan Yermo, […]
26 September, 2023

More than 120 molecules in Alzheimer’s research, the great hope for patients, families and society

The vast majority of them are aimed at modifying the course of the disease, according to an Iqvia report on the future of R&D. In Spain […]
19 September, 2023

The pharmaceutical industry’s plan to expand clinical trials in primary care

Only 7.5% are carried out in health centres. In order to alleviate this situation, Farmaindustria has presented a programme to promote them in outpatient clinics. Source: […]
14 September, 2023

Health commitment to the pharmaceutical industry’s Strategic Plan to avoid losing 8,000 million euros

“We are going to create a favourable environment”. This statement by José Manuel Miñones is the first step towards a roadmap that would highlight the key […]