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Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) announced top-line results from a Phase 4 study (CrisADe CARE 1) which showed that crisaborole ointment, 2%, was well-tolerated in children aged 3 months to less than 24 months with mild to moderate atopic dermatitis (AD), also known as eczema. The data from the trial are supportive of the primary study objective […]
Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) said it has named former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to its board of directors, effective immediately. Gottlieb stepped down abruptly as the FDA chief in March this year, a role he had held since May 2017. Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE), a Healthcare sector firm, traded 20.79 Million shares in last trading […]
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its oncology biosimilar Zirabev for the treatment of five types of cancer. The FDA has approved the drug to treat metastatic colorectal cancer, unresectable, locally advanced, recurrent or metastatic non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer, recurrent glioblastoma, metastatic renal cell carcinoma, and persistent, recurrent […]
Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:ARCT) said the FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation for its lead product candidate ARCT-810 to treat ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency – the most common urea cycle disorder that makes it difficult for the removal of toxic waster products as proteins are digested. Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:ARCT), a Financial sector firm, […]
Acasti Pharma Inc. (NASDAQ:ACST) loss for fiscal 2019 expanded from $21.5 million in the prior year to $51.6 million due to higher R&D costs for the TRILOGY Phase 3 program and other financial expenses. The company ended the year with $34.4 million in cash $26.2 million more than than the prior year on the basis of net proceeds from public […]
Min Wanli, the chief machine intelligence scientist at Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE:BABA) Cloud, has tendered his resignation after six years with the e-commerce giant to set up a venture capital firm, according to a farewell letter obtained by Chinese media. In the letter, Wan revealed that he has created a venture capital firm that seeks […]
Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) has finished a $1 billion renovation at its two plants on Chicago’s far South Side. The company’s oldest continuously producing plant was transformed into a high-tech facility entrusted with building the new Ford Explorer. “When you build 350,000 vehicles a year through a facility year after year and you’re running seven […]
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) has received approval from the European Commission for its TALZENNA a breast cancer drug. This approval follows the medicine’s approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October 2018. “Today’s approval of TALZENNA for certain patients with advanced-stage breast cancer and an inherited BRCA mutation is the latest example of our successful […]