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  • Women who have high levels of both testosterone and estrogen in midlife may face a greater risk of developing benign tumours on the uterus called uterine fibroids than women with low levels of the hormones, reveals a new study.

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  • Amgen has entered into a definitive agreement with GSK to reacquire all of its remaining rights to Prolia® (denosumab), XGEVA® (denosumab) and Vectibix® (panitumumab) in 48 countries in Asia, South America, Europe, Australia and other regions throughout the world. The agreement involves key expansion markets for Amgen including Brazil, China, Colombia, Hong Kong, Israel, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand.

  • The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought the central government's response on Nestle India's plea challenging the "legality and correctness" of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) order directing testing of 16 samples of Maggi noodles to ascertain their safety for consumption.

  • Merck , known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, issued  the following statement after the conclusion of a meeting of the Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to discuss the results of IMPROVE-IT, an investigational study comparing treatment with VYTORIN® (ezetimibe and simvastatin) to treatment with simvastatin alone in more than 18,000 patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes.

  • AstraZeneca and its global biologics research and development arm, MedImmune,  announced a three-year collaboration with the newly established Wallenberg Centre for Protein Research (WCPR). The collaboration aims to develop new technologies for biologics production and to identify new targets for disease research in the ground-breaking area of the Secretome - research into all proteins that are secreted by a cell or that are exposed to the outside of the cell from within the cell membrane.

  • AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative therapies designed for the treatment of acute pain, reported on the outcome of the ARX-04 (sufentanil sublingual tablet, 30 mcg) pre-NDA meeting held recently with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

  • Contrary to popular assumption -- and a talk by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger at the United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference -- eating a vegetarian diet could contribute more to climate change than eating a non-vegetarian diet, warns a new study.

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