INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev., Aug. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — PDL BioPharma, Inc. (“PDL”) (NASDAQ: PDLI) announces an amendment to the Royalty Purchase and Sale Agreement (the “Royalty Agreement”) with Depomed, Inc. (“Depomed”) under which PDL acquired all of Depomed’s remaining rights to royalties and milestones payable on sales of type 2 diabetes products licensed by Depomed for up to $20 million. Under …
Tag Archives: T2D
August, 2018
April, 2018
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5 April
FDA Approves Bydureon for Use with Basal Insulin in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes with Inadequate Glycemic Control
WILMINGTON, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AstraZeneca today announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved BYDUREON® (exenatide extended-release) for injectable suspension as an add-on therapy to basal insulin in adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D) with inadequate glycemic control. BYDUREON is approved for adults with T2D whose blood sugar remains uncontrolled on …
December, 2017
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27 December
INSYS’ Cannabidiol Solution Receives FDA Fast Track Designation as Treatment for Prader-Willi Syndrome
PHOENIX, Dec. 26, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — INSYS Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:INSY), announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to the company’s cannabidiol (CBD) oral solution for the treatment of Prader-Willi syndrome, a rare and complex genetic disorder characterized by insatiable appetite in children that …
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22 December
FDA Approves Merck and Pfizer’s SGLT2 Drug for Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
KENILWORTH, N.J. & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE), today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved STEGLATROTM(ertugliflozin) tablets, an oral sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitor, and the fixed-dose combination STEGLUJAN™ (ertugliflozin and sitagliptin) tablets. …
October, 2017
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23 October
FDA Approves New Once-Weekly Bydureon BCise Injectable Medicine for Type 2 Diabetes
WILMINGTON, Del.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–AstraZeneca today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved BYDUREON® BCise™ (exenatide extended-release) injectable suspension, a new formulation of BYDUREON® (exenatide extended-release) injectable suspension in an improved once-weekly, single-dose autoinjector device for adults with type-2 diabetes whose blood sugar remains uncontrolled on one or more oral medicines …
July, 2017
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19 July
CDC Report Finds More than 100 Million Americans have Diabetes or Prediabetes
ATLANTA, July 18, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — More than 100 million U.S. adults are now living with diabetes or prediabetes, according to a new report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report finds that as of 2015, 30.3 million Americans – 9.4 percent of the …
June, 2017
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15 June
Johnson & Johnson Innovation Announces New Collaborations Advancing Ground-Breaking Biomedical Innovation
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., June 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Johnson & Johnson Innovation LLC today announced new collaborations that seek to develop potential treatments for diseases in urgent need of solutions, including obesity and related complications, such as type 2 diabetes and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), and rheumatoid arthritis, and advance cutting-edge …
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12 June
Merck and Pfizer Announce Investigational SGLT-2 Inhibitor Met Primary Endpoint in Two Phase 3 Studies
KENILWORTH, N.J. & NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, in partnership with Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE), today announced that two Phase 3 studies (VERTIS MET and VERTIS SITA) of ertugliflozin, an investigational oral SGLT-2 inhibitor in development to help improve glycemic control in adults …
April, 2017
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17 April
Rates of New Diagnosed Cases of Type 1 and 2 Diabetes on the Rise Among Children, Teens
Rates of new diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes are increasing among youth in the United States, according to a report, Incidence Trends of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes among Youths, 2002-2012, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the United States, 29.1 …
January, 2017
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23 January
Enteris BioPharma and Sanofi Enter Deal to Develop Oral Diabetes Drug
BOONTON, N.J., Jan. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Enteris BioPharma, Inc., announced today the initiation of a feasibility study agreement with Sanofi to leverage Enteris’ proprietary and patented oral peptide and small molecule delivery platform, Peptelligence™, to develop an oral formulation of one of Sanofi’s preclinical stage peptides. Joel Tune, Chief …