PARIS, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) announced today that BARACLUDE(R) (entecavir) has been approved by the European Commission on February 28th 2011 to treat chronic hepatitis B (CHB) in adult patients with evidence of decompensated liver disease. BARACLUDE(r) was already approved in Europe in June 2006 for use in adult patients with CHB with compensated liver disease and evidence of active viral replication, persistently elevated serum alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels and histological evidence of active inflammation and/or fibrosis. This approval grants BARACLUDE(r) marketing authorisation in the 27 countries of the European Union.

DES PLAINES, Ill., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Abbott (NYSE: ABT) announced today it has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market the Abbott RealTime HBV assay for measuring viral load or the amount of hepatitis B virus (HBV) in a patient's blood.

HAIKOU, China, June 17 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Kun Run Biotechnology, Inc. (the "Company" or "Kun Run") (OTC Bulletin Board: KURU), a leading bio-pharmaceutical company in China focusing on manufacturing and sales of peptide-based and small molecule drugs, today announced that they have obtained the manufacturing approval for Entecavir from the China State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA). Entecavir is an oral antiviral drug used in the treatment of Hepatitis-B infection.

Gilead Sciences, a biopharmaceutical company, has presented two-year data from two Phase III pivotal clinical trials, studies 102 and 103, evaluating the safety and efficacy of once-daily Viread among adult patients with chronic hepatitis B virus infection.

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