Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - First Medicine Shown to Extend Survival Beyond One Year in Previously Untreated Lung Cancer Patients Avastin (bevacizumab), Roche's innovative anti-cancer drug, was approved today in Europe for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), in combination with platinum-based ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - The World Health Organization (WHO) has reinforced that Tamiflu (oseltamivir) is the primary recommended antiviral of choice in managing patients infected with H5N1 in updated guidance published on the WHO website today. Experts believe that a human influenza pandemic is imminent and could be triggered by the highly pathogenic ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - First Anti-Anaemia Product Offering Simple Once-Monthly Maintenance Treatment Roche announced today that the European Commission has approved its innovative drug MIRCERA to treat anaemia associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The approval of MIRCERA results in a single marketing authorisation with unified ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - First Medicine Shown to Extend Survival of Previously Untreated Patients Beyond One Year Roche announced today that the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has issued a positive recommendation for the first-line use of Avastin in the ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - An analysis of two large-scale Phase III maintenance studies on C.E.R.A. has highlighted that two high-risk patient populations - dialysis patients with diabetes and/or coronary artery disease - consistently and safely maintained their haemoglobin (Hb) levels at target levels ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Study Reveals Potential for Improved use of Resources Whilst Maintaining High Quality Anaemia Management A new study has found that converting dialysis patients from more frequently administered erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) to once-monthly C.E.R.A., ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - First Ever Economic Analysis Shows Tamiflu Use in a Pandemic Could Save Significant Costs to Society Treatment with the oral antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) and prophylaxis for people exposed to infected patients could be one of the most cost-effective strategies for reducing illness and death during an influenza ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Data Supports IL-6 Receptor Inhibition as a Key Component in Controlling Inflammation From RA Roche today announced significant results from 'OPTION'(1), the first rheumatoid arthritis multinational phase III study of Actemra (tocilizumab) outside of Japan. The ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Eight presentations regarding Roche's new anti-anaemia drug MIRCERA(R) currently awaiting approval worldwide, will feature strongly at the upcoming European Renal Association-European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA) Congress in Barcelona Spain, June 21st to 24th 2007. Three MIRCERA abstracts have received the ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - First Publication of Phase III Data in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology Results from a multi-centre renal anaemia study show that switching patients directly from frequent doses of epoetin therapies (epoetin alfa or beta administered one to ...
Chicago (ots/PRNewswire) - - Oral Xeloda(R) Combination Effective and Time-Saving Data presented today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting (ASCO) in Chicago showed that not only is XELOX as effective as intravenous (i.v.) drug regimens, but that colorectal cancer patients who ...
Chicago, Illinois (ots/PRNewswire) - - One Year Results From the ARIBON Study Presented at ASCO 2007 Bondronat(R) (ibandronic acid) has been shown to prevent bone loss caused by anastrozole in post-menopausal women given adjuvant therapy for early breast cancer according to results from the ARIBON ...
Chicago (ots/PRNewswire) - - Patients Have a Chance to Live Almost Twice as Long Without Their Disease Returning Adding Avastin (bevacizumab) to interferon offers patients with advanced renal cell cancer the chance to live twice as long without their disease advancing ("progression free survival") compared with interferon alone. This is according to results ...
Chicago, Illinois (ots/PRNewswire) - - Only First-line Treatment to Demonstrate Extended Survival in Over a Decade Avastin (bevacizumab), significantly improves the time patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) live without their disease advancing ("progression free survival") when added to cisplatin/gemcitabine chemotherapy, compared with ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Roche announced today that it has received a positive opinion from the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommending a marketing authorisation be granted for MIRCERA for the treatment of anaemia associated with chronic kidney disease. MIRCERA is ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Results of the landmark VICTOR study presented today at the American Transplant Congress, San Francisco, USA, have shown that Valcyte (oral valganciclovir) is as effective and as well tolerated as intravenous ganciclovir, the current gold-standard for the treatment of ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Findings Illustrate Role of Innovative New Treatment in Population Most Affected by Chronic Kidney Disease A new Roche Phase III analysis shows once-monthly MIRCERA, a continuous erythropoietin receptor activator, effectively treats renal anaemia in one of the ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Nephrologists attending the upcoming World Congress of Nephrology (WCN) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 21-25 April will hear about a wide range of study results from Roche's robust renal anaemia clinical trial programs for its two treatments -- MIRCERA(R) and NeoRecormon(R). Among the highlights will be two analyses on MIRCERA, ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - High Response Rates Confirmed in 'Real-Life' Study and Clinical Trials BASEL, Switzerland, April 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients with hepatitis C who respond quickly to treatment have an excellent chance of being cured of the disease, according to data presented today ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Oral Treatment Option Reduces Time in Hospital by 80% - For Non-US Media Only The European Commission has approved Xeloda in combination with platinum-based chemotherapy, for first-line use in patients with advanced stomach cancer. Oral chemotherapy Xeloda, is already replacing standard intravenous (i.v.) ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - New International Trial Called PROGRESS Starts in 15 Countries Roche today announces the start of a large multinational trial in patients with difficult-to-cure genotype 1 hepatitis C. This international study will evaluate the effect of PEGASYS (peginterferon ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - New global educational resources spotlight renal anaemia, a common under-recognized complication of Chronic Kidney Disease To help support health professionals who play a key role in educating and managing patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Roche today announced the launch of AnaemiaWorld.com, a major new centralized online resource. AnaemiaWorld.com is believed ...
Basel (ots/PRNewswire) - - First Worldwide Test of Public's Knowledge About Kidneys On-line Quiz Launches Today Our kidneys are amazing organs that play a crucial role in keeping us alive and well - but how much do we really know about them and do we know what can happen if disease sets in? This is the ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - New Phase III Data Presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Gastrointestinal Symposium (ASCO GI) continue to demonstrate the excellent efficacy of two of Roche's innovative cancer drugs Xeloda and Avastin, which offer improved survival for patients ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Today's positive opinion by the European Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of Tibotec's boosted protease inhibitor darunavir is good news for HIV treatment-experienced patients facing drug resistance. Studies have shown that darunavir, when used in ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Avastin is First Medicine to Extend Survival Beyond One Year in Patients With Previously Untreated Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Avastin is the first medicine proven to help previously untreated patients suffering from the most common form of lung cancer to live longer than a year, according to a landmark US study ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - - Roche to Approach World-Wide Regulatory Authorities for a New File Submission Roche announced today that a large, international Phase III study (NO16967) of 627 previously treated patients with advanced colorectal cancer met its primary endpoint of progression-free survival. Study results showed that the chemotherapy ...
Basel, Switzerland, November 16 (ots/PRNewswire) - - New England Journal of Medicine Article Shows no Additional Cardiac Benefit From Increasing Haemoglobin to Levels Outside Current Recommendations The long awaited results of CREATE (i), a landmark trial that investigated a key question in nephrology, were published today. CREATE set out to see if there was ...
Glasgow, Scotland, November 13 (ots/PRNewswire) - - Patients Treated With Boosted Invirase 500 Were Significantly Less Likely to Develop Elevated Lipids Than Boosted Lopinavir Promising head to head results presented today indicate that the boosted protease inhibitor (PI/r) Invirase 500/r appears to ...
Basel, Switzerland (ots/PRNewswire) - Seventy percent of European patients battling lung cancer had never regarded the disease as a threat prior to learning of their condition, according to results from a new pan-European public and patient survey announced on the eve of Lung Cancer Awareness Month. This ignorance about lung cancer is also indicative of a chronic ...