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Boehringer Ingelheim signs a license agreement with Evec Inc. for its fully-human antibody programme

Boehringer Ingelheim

Boehringer Ingelheim has signed a licence agreement with Evec, Inc., Japan, for one of its fully-human therapeutic antibody programmes. Based on the agreement, Boehringer Ingelheim will obtain worldwide exclusive development and commercialisation rights for the complete programme.

Nycomed optimises its European manufacturing network

Nycomed

Nycomed has announced a new strategy for its European manufacturing network. The company will focus its European production at five dedicated centres of competence and five facilities for regional supply. To optimise utilisation, production from two Danish and the Finnish plant will be transferred to other sites.

Pfizer Launches New Medicine Safety Website for Healthcare Professionals and Patients

Pfizer

Pfizer Inc launches of a new interactive online educational resource designed to give healthcare professionals, medical students, patients, patient advocates and the general public more information about medicine safety, and, in turn, more confidence when making decisions about appropriate treatment options.

Novo Nordisk acquires intellectual property rights from Neose Technologies

Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire intellectual property rights from Neose Technologies Inc. related to Neose's proprietary GlycoPEGylation technology. The acquired rights are currently subject to a license from Neose for Novo Nordisk's development of GlycoPEGylated recombinant blood clotting factors FVIIa, FVIII and FIX.

Abbott’s HUMIRA® (adalimumab) Approved in the European Union

Abbott

Abbott (NYSE: ABT) today announced that the European Commission has granted marketing authorization for the use of HUMIRA®, in combination with methotrexate (MTX), as a treatment for active polyarticular juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in adolescents aged 13 to 17. Additionally, HUMIRA for JIA treatment is approved for those patients who have responded inadequately to one or more disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs).

New low-dose oral contraceptive YAZ® launched in Europe

The Bayer Group

Bayer Schering Pharma's YAZ® will be available across Europe as of September 2008. YAZ® is the first oral contraceptive containing 3 mg of the unique progestin drospirenone combined with 0.02 mg of ethinyl estradiol in a new dosing regimen of 24 days of active hormone tablets followed by 4 days of hormone-free tablets.

GlaxoSmithKline and Valeant Pharmaceuticals announce worldwide collaboration agreement

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Valeant Pharmaceuticals International (NYSE: VRX) announced that they have entered into an exclusive worldwide collaboration agreement for the investigational drug retigabine, a first in class neuronal potassium channel opener for treatment of adult epilepsy patients with refractory partial onset seizures.

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