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  • A new medication to be launched by the end of this year by US Pharma major Eli Lilly, for diabetic patients in India. A regulatory approval for the upcoming product has already been received by the company. It is also gearing up to introduce another medication in oncology that could be launched by the end of 2016 or early 2017 which has been filed for approvals.

  • Roche announced that in the large pivotal Phase II study, BIRCH, the investigational cancer immunotherapy atezolizumab (MPDL3280A; anti-PDL1) met its primary endpoint and shrank tumours (objective response rate; ORR) in people with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose disease expressed PD-L1 (Programmed Death Ligand-1). The study showed the amount of PD-L1 expressed by a person’s cancer correlated with their response to the medicine. Adverse events were consistent with what has been previously observed for atezolizumab.

  • Researchers found that a new combination therapy was highly effective at treating patients with melanoma, which is known as the most serious type of skin cancer. The findings were published online in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.

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