NEW YORK, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A drug touted as a safer, gentler way to treat cancer increases the risk of blood clots, a U.S. study in the Journal of the American Medical Association said.
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Swiss pharmaceutical behemoth Roche will have to dig deeper into its pockets if it wants to own all of Genentech Inc., which rejected its $43.7 billion offer.
BASEL, Switzerland, July 21 (UPI) -- Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG has offered $43.7 billion -- $89 a share -- for the U.S. biotech firm Genentech.
NEW YORK, July 6 (UPI) -- The cancer medication Avastin has been called a wonder drug, but may be less effective than U.S. regulators believed when they approved it.
NEW YORK, April 30 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say a new drug designed to treat diabetic eye disease performed better in clinical trials than did the current standard of laser surgery.
NEW YORK, March 16 (UPI) -- Some researchers are questioning the ethics of prescribing higher-than-necessary doses of high-priced drugs in the United States.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 22 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval for Avastin in combination with paclitaxel chemotherapy for treatment of breast cancer.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27 (UPI) -- Bevacizumab, a drug which slows tumor-supporting blood vessels, added to standard chemotherapy slowed metastatic breast cancer, a U.S. clinical trial found.
DETROIT, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- A clinical study in Michigan found that brain cancer patients treated with the drug Avastin are living longer without further progression of the disease.
BASAL, Switzerland, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- The European Union has approved the anti-cancer drug Avastin as a first-line treatment for advanced lung cancer.
NEW YORK, June 22 (UPI) -- A U.S. study says patients with radiation retinopathy can keep their eyesight longer by using the cancer drug Avastin.
CHICAGO, June 12 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say the breast cancer drug Herceptin is not reaching many of the women who could benefit from it.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ordered Genentech Inc. to add a boxed warning to its asthmatic drug marketed as Xolair.
LOS ALTOS, Calif., Jan. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. firm Amphora Discovery Corporation said Tuesday Genentech agreed to purchase its oncology program for an undisclosed sum.
BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 14 (UPI) -- The drug Avastin has become the first medicine proven to help patients suffering from the most common form of lung cancer to live longer than a year.
