Rituximab May Be Best Choice After Anti-TNF Fail in RAMedscapeMarch 24, 2012 — Patients whose rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is inadequately controlled with a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) inhibitor might be well advised to switch to rituximab (RTX), rather…
Palm Beach Daily NewsZachary Potter's tribute to dad behind Leukemia & Lymphoma Society questPalm Beach Daily NewsThat therapy adds rituximab, a monoclonal antibody, to an established regimen of four chemotherapy drugs. “The treatments that w…
Roche's Herceptin given by subcutaneous injection offers greater convenience …PipelineReview.com (press release)Roche are also investigating the use of MabThera (rituximab) for subcutaneous injection in non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymp…
Looking for Innovative Small-Cap Biotech Companies: George ZavoicoInvestorIdeas.com (press release)It was up against Rituxan (rituximab; from Genentech) a hugely successful drug. But Zevalin, I think, has a number of advantages-including cost and effic…
Chicago TribuneAbbott christens new pharma company AbbViePMLiVE… gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) antagonist elagolix, partnered with Neurocrine Biosciences and in testing for endometriosis, as well as bardoxolone for chronic kidney disease, can…
Patient-reported treatment burden of chronic immune thrombocytopenia therapies7thSpace Interactive (press release)Current and past exposure was assessed for five specific treatment types: corticosteroids (CS), intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg), anti-D …
Flight riskNature.comPrimates have also helped the development of antiviral therapies to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV; of Rituxan (rituximab), a key drug against non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; and of Benlysta (belimumab), the first new lupu…
Multiple Sclerosis Therapeutics – Pipeline Assessment and Market Forecasts to 2019SBWire (press release)Aubagio (teriflunamide), Dimethyl Fumarate (BG-12), Daclizumab, RG1594 (ocrelizumab) and Lamtrada (alemtuzumab) are the novel late stage pipeline pr…
Cancer Research UKAnalysis reveals most common Cancer Drugs Fund applicationsCancer Research UKOther drugs that received a high number of applications under the Cancer Drugs Fund included lapatinib (Tyverb), rituximab (MabThera) and everolimus (Afinito…
Stem Cells Can Help in Kidney TransplantsMedPage TodaySince mesenchymal stem cells have been reported to be useful in treating graft-versus-host disease, they decided to see if the approach could be used to replace antibody induction with basiliximab (…