OSTEOPOROSIS

Category: Diagnostics and Disease Care

News

  • Osteoporosis drug Actonel Once-a-Month listed on PBS

    Osteoporosis drug Actonel Once-a-Month listed on PBS

    MORE than two million Australians living with osteoporosis1 are set to benefit from the first once-a-month osteoporosis therapy, after it was today listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

    01/07/2009

  • SCAN for bone fractures

    SCAN for bone fractures

    RESEARCHERS at the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI) developing an ultrasound device which will assist the fight against bone disorders.

    19/02/2009

  • Roche drug still shows promise for rheumatoid arthritis patients

    Roche has announced that its Phase III clinical trial evaluation of ocrelizumab as a treatment for seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients with a previous inadequate response to methotrexate (MTX), has met its primary efficacy endpoint.

    14/12/2009

  • US grants bone repair patent

    An Australian regenerative medicine company, Mesoblast, has been granted a key patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), providing them with exclusive commercial protection for its bone tissue generating products through to at least 2019 in the US.

    05/03/2010

 

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