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Newer treatments for age-related macular degeneration (AMD)"”including an intravitreous (into the eye) injection of a chemotherapy drug and use of a related compound approved for use against the eye disease"”do not appear to be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular complications or death when compared with existing therapies, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals."More than 1.5 million older Americans...

Data presented today at the 35th European Society for Medical Oncology CongressNovocure reported today that patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) achieved a significant increase in survival time when tumor treating fields (TTF) therapy was added to chemotherapy, as compared to previously reported outcomes for patients receiving chemotherapy alone. Dr. Miklos Pless, head of medical oncology at the Winterthur Hospital Cancer center in Switzerland, presented the data at the...

(Ivanhoe Newswire) "“ Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness for people over fifty. There are two treatments for AMD, although there is no cure, these treatments reduce the impact that macular degeneration has on vision. The two drugs include Bevacizumab (Avastin) and Ranibizumab (Lucentis). Scientists, for the first time, have discovered that there may not be any difference in the efficacy of these drugs- one is not better than the other.AMD affects...

BURLINGTON, Mass., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues finds that the non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) drug market will increase from approximately $4 billion in 2009 to more than $6.5 billion in 2019 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and Japan. The Pharmacor 2010 findings from the topic entitled Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer reveal that market growth will...

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and the VA Boston Healthcare System have conducted a study that failed to show a difference in efficacy between Bevacizumab (Avastin) and Ranibizumab (Lucentis) for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The study, which appears currently on-line in Eye, is believed to be the first study to describe one-year outcomes of a prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial directly comparing bevacizumab to...

COLUMBIA, Md., Sept. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Celsion Corporation (Nasdaq: CLSN), a leading oncology drug development company, announced that after reviewing data from 401 patients enrolled in its pivotal Phase III ThermoDox ® clinical study (the HEAT study) for primary liver cancer, the Data Monitoring Committee (DMC) has unanimously recommended that the trial continue to enroll patients with the goal of reaching the 600 patients required to complete the study. The Company...

MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Circadian Technologies (ASX:CIR) has announced today that it has partnered with Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Centre (CCHMC) to develop and market a blood test to diagnose LAM, a serious lung disease that strikes women, usually in their child bearing years. The diagnostic is being developed following the discovery that high levels of vascular endothelial growth factor-D, or VEGF-D - to which Circadian owns intellectual property rights...

BURLINGTON, Mass., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues finds that, owing to generic erosion of key agents, the colorectal cancer drug market will remain relatively flat over the next decade, increasing from more than $6.4 billion in 2009 to just under $6.7 billion in 2019 in the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom and Japan. The Pharmacor 2010 findings from the...

COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- The ASCO Post captured initial reactions to the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) recommendation that the breast cancer indication for bevacizumab (Avastin) be revoked in interviews with ODAC voting members, breast cancer specialists, oncologists in private practice, third-party payers, and a patient advocate. These reactions are available online now at ASCOPost.com and appear in the September issue of the publication. "It is...

SAN DIEGO, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- ReVision Therapeutics Inc. today announced that data from a Phase 2b trial show that fenretinide (RT-101) reduced the incidence of choroidal neovascularization (CNV, wet age related macular degeneration) by about 50 percent in patients with geographic atrophy (GA), the most advanced form of dry age related macular degeneration (AMD). The data, presented Monday by Alexander M. Eaton, M.D., at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Retinal...