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WILMINGTON, Del., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Approximately 25 million Americans suffer from asthma, which accounts for more than 3300 deaths each year. AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) is urging Americans to embrace National Asthma & Allergy Awareness Month this May by taking proactive steps to gain control of their asthma and learn more about how it may be impacting their lives. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click:...

MISSISSAUGA, ON, March 22, 2013 /CNW/ - PATHOS is the largest real-world study to compare the effectiveness of two commonly prescribed inhaled corticosteroid and long-acting beta agonist (ICS/LABA) combination treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with more than one year of patient follow-up.(1 )An analysis of PATHOS data shows that COPD patients treated with SYMBICORT(®) (budesonide/formoterol) are significantly less likely to suffer from COPD-related...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearl Therapeutics Inc. today announced the completion of the Company's randomized, double-blind, dose-ranging Phase 2b trial of PT003, Pearl's lead investigational inhaled combination bronchodilator product for the treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe COPD. This study assessed five BID doses of PT003, in which formoterol fumarate (FF) was co-formulated with five descending doses of glycopyrrolate (GP) and administered...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearl Therapeutics Inc. today announced the completion of a randomized, double-blind Phase 2b dose-ranging study in which six doses of the long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA), glycopyrrolate (GP) ranging from 18 micrograms to 600 nanograms BID were delivered via metered-dose inhaler (GP MDI; PT001) to patients with moderate-to-severe COPD. In this study (NCT01566773) and the previously conducted dose-ranging GP MDI studies, a...

NEW YORK, May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Citeline, the world's leading research authority on pharmaceutical clinical trials, updates, and intelligence recently reviewed the results presented at the American Thoracic Society (ATS) conference held May 18-23, 2012 in San Francisco, CA. The strong competition to launch the next fixed dose combination (FDC) blockbuster for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was of particular interest to reviewer Jennifer Stacey, Citeline's...

In the news release, Pearl Therapeutics Phase 2b Twice-Daily Dosing Data Suggest Morning and Evening Benefit of PT003 in Patients with COPD, issued 14-May-2012 by Pearl Therapeutics over PR Newswire, we are advised by the company that the dateline date should read "May 14, 2012" rather than "May 14, 2011" as originally issued inadvertently. The complete, corrected release follows: Pearl Therapeutics Phase 2b Twice-Daily Dosing Data Suggest Morning and Evening Benefit of PT003 in Patients...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearl Therapeutics Inc. announced plans to make 11 presentations at upcoming medical meetings to report clinical and product development information pertaining to PT003 (GFF MDI), a proprietary, fixed-dose combination of glycopyrrolate (GP), a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) and formoterol fumarate (FF), a long-acting beta-2 agonist (LABA). PT003 and its components, PT001 (GP MDI) and PT005 (FF MDI) are being developed...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearl Therapeutics Inc. today announced that the company has successfully formulated and manufactured metered-dose inhalers (MDI) that deliver 300ng per actuation of glycopyrrolate (GP), a highly potent, long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) using its porous particle cosuspension technology. By breaking the microgram dose barrier, Pearl aims to evaluate completely the safety and efficacy profiles of GP, and other very potent...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearl Therapeutics Inc. today announced the completion of two Phase 2b clinical studies of PT003, the Company's investigational inhaled combination bronchodilator product for the treatment of patients with moderate-to-severe COPD. The first of these two trials (NCT01349803) was a 237-subject cardiovascular safety study designed to measure the change in mean heart rate following twice-daily (BID) chronic administration of the...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Oct. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearl Therapeutics Inc. presented data elucidating the robust aerosol performance and physicochemical foundations of the Company's cosuspension technology which uses spray-dried, low-density porous particles to deliver drug microcrystals via pressurized metered dose inhalers (MDIs). Two posters were presented this week at the 25th American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists annual meeting in Washington DC. "These results demonstrate...