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Roche’s Avastin approved in Japan for treatment of aggressive brain cancer

Roche’s Avastin approved in Japan for treatment of aggressive brain cancer

June 17, 2013 1:39 am by | 0 Comments

ZURICH (Reuters) - Japan's health ministry has approved drug Avastin for the treatment of aggressive brain cancer in Japan, Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche said on Monday.Avastin is the first new ... Read more

Roche’s skin cancer drug gets Swiss approval

Roche’s skin cancer drug gets Swiss approval

June 11, 2013 1:24 am by | 0 Comments

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG has received Swiss approval for Erivedge, the first medicine for people with advanced forms of basal cell carcinoma, the most common skin ... Read more


EU approves Roche rheumatoid arthritis drug for children

EU approves Roche rheumatoid arthritis drug for children

June 10, 2013 1:29 am by | 0 Comments

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss pharmaceuticals company Roche Holding AG said on Monday the European Medicines Agency has approved its rheumatoid arthritis drug RoActemra to treat children aged two or older ... Read more

How to conserve the flu drug supply in a pandemic? Don’t double dose

How to conserve the flu drug supply in a pandemic? Don’t double dose

May 31, 2013 2:30 pm by | 0 Comments

LONDON (Reuters) - There are no benefits from giving patients with severe flu a double dose of Roche's drug Tamiflu, despite calls by some experts for the use of higher ... Read more

Eli Lilly, Roche, device makers collaborate on new public-private research institute in Indiana

Eli Lilly, Roche, device makers collaborate on new public-private research institute in Indiana

May 30, 2013 5:00 pm by | 0 Comments

Roche and Eli Lilly are among major life science players in Indiana putting resources behind a public-private research institute that would discover and develop new health innovations.Industry leaders from the ... Read more

Immunotherapy: The biggest drug class in history?

Immunotherapy: The biggest drug class in history?

May 22, 2013 5:33 am by | 0 Comments

* Potential sales of $35 bln a year over next 10 years - Citigroup* Immunotherapy may be used in up to 60 percent of cancers* Bristol-Myers Squibb and Roche both ... Read more

Roche may sell glucose meter business unit

Roche may sell glucose meter business unit

May 15, 2013 3:37 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG is exploring a sale of its blood glucose meters business, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters on ... Read more


Roche banks on new drug data to defend cancer business

Roche banks on new drug data to defend cancer business

May 15, 2013 1:00 am by | 0 Comments

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche hopes data published this week will show it has a viable follow-on product to help fend off cheaper competition for its best-selling cancer drug, ... Read more

Roche to commercialize Hepatitis C drug in China with Ascletis

Roche to commercialize Hepatitis C drug in China with Ascletis

April 15, 2013 1:27 am by | 0 Comments

ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG said it had teamed up with biotech firm Ascletis to develop and commercialize its investigative drug danoprevir in China for the treatment ... Read more

Cancer drugs and Tamiflu lift Roche first-quarter sales five percent

Cancer drugs and Tamiflu lift Roche first-quarter sales five percent

April 11, 2013 1:51 am by | 0 Comments

ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG maintained its forecast of rising sales and profit this year after growth in its mainstay cancer medicines.Demand for its flu drug Tamiflu, ... Read more

Roche’s immune therapy drug seems to work against several types of cancer

Roche’s immune therapy drug seems to work against several types of cancer

April 9, 2013 3:03 pm by | 0 Comments

April 9 (Reuters) - An experimental drug that spurs the immune system to fight cancer appeared to be safe and demonstrated anti-tumor activity against a variety of cancers in a ... Read more

Roche’s rheumatoid arthritis treatment Actemra moves forward in Japan

Roche’s rheumatoid arthritis treatment Actemra moves forward in Japan

March 25, 2013 2:59 am by | 0 Comments

ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG's Japanese subsidiary Chugai said on Monday that Japanese health regulators have approved a new formulation of its rheumatoid arthritis drug Actemra.Japanese regulators have approved ... Read more

Sources: Roche joins Life Tech auction; KKR, H&F team up

Sources: Roche joins Life Tech auction; KKR, H&F team up

March 19, 2013 2:33 pm by | 0 Comments

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG and a buyout group comprising KKR & Co LP and Hellman & Friedman LLC have joined the bidding for Life Technologies Corp, a ... Read more

EU expands use of Roche’s Pegasys in chronic hepatitis C

EU expands use of Roche’s Pegasys in chronic hepatitis C

March 18, 2013 2:13 am by | 0 Comments

ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche said on Monday the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has expanded the approval of its drug Pegasys plus ribavirin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus ... Read more

Roche shareholders overwhelmingly back pay plans

Roche shareholders overwhelmingly back pay plans

March 5, 2013 9:15 am by | 0 Comments

BASEL (Reuters) - Roche shareholders overwhelmingly backed its compensation report on Tuesday, suggesting the company has little to fear from tough new legislation to limit executive pay.Roche's AGM in Basel ... Read more