Leiden, the Netherlands, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Today, Batavia Biosciences announces it received a grant of $6.5 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a manufacturing process for a novel oral vaccine against polio virus type 2 strain (nOPV2) to help protect children worldwide from future polio outbreaks. In a collaboration with PATH [...]
Lugano, Switzerland, and Beijing, China, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Helsinn, a Swiss pharmaceutical group focused on building quality cancer care products, and Mundipharma China Pharmaceutical, the market leader in pain management, today jointly announce that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved the oral formulation of Akynzeo® for the treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) - Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), today released the findings of its fifth annual Philips Global Beauty Index, surveying over 12,000 women from 12 different countries. The extensive international study [1] explores the attitudes and perceptions of women from around the globe, to uncover how they define [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Chicago, U.S., Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, will showcase its integrated radiation oncology portfolio at the American Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) annual meeting (15-18 September in Chicago, U.S.). Visitors to the Philips booth (#3642) will experience Philips IntelliSpace [...]
Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Melsungen, Germany, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and B. Braun Melsungen AG, a global leader in regional anesthesia and pain management, today announced the launch of Onvision, a breakthrough ultrasound guidance solution for real-time needle tip tracking in regional [...]
BARCELONA, Spain, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, at the IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer, the four founding partners of the Lung Ambition Alliance – the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), Guardant Health, the Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC) and AstraZeneca – announced the launch of several new initiatives to [...]
PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — SunGen Pharma, a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company which develops, contract manufactures, and sells pharmaceutical finished products, today announced it has received its seventh ANDA approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The seventh approved ANDA is for Fosapreptant for Injection 150mg/vial. This drug product is [...]
Berlin, Germany and Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – At the 2019 Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA, September 6-11, Berlin, Germany), Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today highlighted a range of intelligent, adaptive and personalized consumer health solutions that seamlessly integrate into people’s lives and lifestyles, empowering them [...]
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: PRAH) today announced the pricing of the previously announced secondary offering of shares of its common stock. KKR PRA Investors L.P. (the “Selling Stockholder”), has agreed to sell an aggregate of 6,666,684 shares of the Company’s common stock in an underwritten [...]
RALEIGH, N.C., Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (the “Company”) (NASDAQ: PRAH) today announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) has authorized a $500 million share repurchase program, effective immediately. Under the program, the Company is authorized to repurchase shares of its common stock through open market purchases, privately-negotiated transactions, secondary [...]