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AstraZeneca announces positive results for heart drug candidate
biospectrumasia
August 21, 2019
DAPA-HF is the first heart failure outcomes trial with an SGLT2 inhibitor in patients with and without type-2 diabetes
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AstraZeneca’s diabetes drug Farxiga performs well in heart failure patients
pharmaceutical-technology
August 21, 2019
AstraZeneca has announced that Farxiga (dapagliflozin) met its primary endpoint in heart failure-focused Phase III DAPA-HF trial of patients with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF).
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AstraZeneca and Merck’s Lynparza continues to perform well in ovarian cancer
pharmaceutical-technology
August 16, 2019
AstraZeneca and Merck have announced that Lynparza (olaparib), the primary product in their ongoing oncology collaboration, has performed better than the standard of care as a first line maintenance treatment for patients with ovarian cancer, regardless o
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AstraZeneca announces breakthrough therapy status for Calquence in CLL
pharmaceutical-technology
August 15, 2019
AstraZeneca has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Calquence (acalabrutinib) to treat chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL).
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AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso helps lung cancer patients live longer: study
expresspharma
August 12, 2019
AstraZeneca reported that a late-stage study showed its top-selling drug, Tagrisso, had significantly helped patients with a type of lung cancer live longer without the disease worsening.
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AstraZeneca demonstrates Tagrisso’s superiority to other EGFR-TKI drugs
pharmaceutical-technology
August 12, 2019
AstraZeneca has published results from its Phase III FLAURA trial showing that in previously untreated patients with locally-advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) its drug Tagrisso (osimertinib) performed better than erlotinib or ...
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Aevi Genomic Medicine, AstraZeneca Enter Into License Agreement
contractpharma
August 08, 2019
Plans to initiate Phase 2 trial for treatment of Adult Onset Still's Disease and other serious rare and orphan diseases.
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Inovalon Implements Platform Initiative for AstraZeneca
contractpharma
August 07, 2019
Aims to leverage combination of Avalere Business Unit and the Inovalon ONE Platform towards new value-based solutions.
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AstraZeneca and Novartis set to lose out from US drug prices reforms
europeanpharmaceuticalreview
July 31, 2019
A report has suggested that the drug price reforms in the US will affect AstraZeneca and Novartis negatively, but Novo could benefit.
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AstraZeneca’s ovarian cancer drug Olaparib gets NICE approval
pharmaceutical-technology
July 30, 2019
AstraZeneca has obtained the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approval for use of its olaparib drug as a first-line maintenance therapy to treat gynaecological cancers patients on the National Health Service (NHS) in England, UK.