An oral allergy treatment administered in drops under the tongue is a safe and effective alternative to injections for adults who are allergic to ragweed pollen, according to a study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology by allergic disease specialist at Allegheny General Hospital.

Critical Outcome Technologies Inc. (COTI) (TSX VENTURE:COT) announced positive results today from animal experiments carried out at a prominent Canadian cancer research facility. This new series of experiments adds to the already impressive data package for COTI-2, demonstrating efficacy as a single agent and in combination with first line therapies with low toxicity in seven [...]

Novexel, a speciality pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel antibiotics designed to overcome the significant global problem of microbial resistance, announces that its most advanced oral antibacterial NXL103 (flopristin/linopristin), has started a Phase II clinical trial in adults with acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI). The trial is designed [...]

An experimental drug, LX211 (LUVENIQ™; oral voclosporin), may become the first approved oral treatment capable of modifying the course of uveitis, a group of serious eye conditions inevitably associated with either severe vision loss or substantial morbidity from steroid use. Results of international Phase 2/3 clinical trials conducted by Lux Biosciences, to be the subject [...]

GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved VOTRIENT(TM) (pazopanib) to treat patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC), a form of kidney cancer. Approximately 57,700 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with kidney cancer this year, and 13,000 people will die from this disease.