Swiss pharma giant Roche Holding AG (RHHBY) posted strong growth in the third quarter. Sales increased 6% year over year to CHF 15.1 billion and were up 9% at constant exchange rates (CER).Stay up-to-date with all quarterly releases: See Zacks Earnings Calendar.The company reports under two divisions — Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. All growth rates mentioned below are on a year-over-year basis and at CER.Total sales increased 6% in the first nine months of 2024 to CHF 45 billion. Excluding COVID-19-relat ...

Group sales grew by 6%1 at constant exchange rates (CER) (2% in CHF) in the first nine months, driven by the high demand for both our medicines and diagnostics; excluding COVID-19-related products, sales increased by 8%In the third quarter, Group sales rose by 9% (6% in CHF), as they did in the second quarter Pharmaceuticals Division sales rose by 7% in the first nine months; the strong growth of 9% in the base business2 was driven by continued high demand for our newer medicines to treat severe diseases; V ...

Over the last couple of years, one of the biggest stories in the stock market has been around pharmaceutical companies that are thriving due to the proliferation of their weight loss drug treatments. The two firms that most readily come to mind are Eli Lilly NYSE: LLY and Novo Nordisk NYSE: NVO. These firm’s GLP-1 receptor agonist drugs have seen skyrocketing sales due to their unprecedented ability to help patients lose considerable amounts of body weight in a relatively short amount of time.This isn't sur ...

The new VENTANA CLDN18 (43-14A) RxDx Assay helps fulfil an unmet medical need by enabling clinicians to identify patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) cancer who may benefit from a targeted treatment option. CLDN18.2 is an emerging biomarker in gastric and GEJ cancers and helps predict the likelihood of response to targeted therapy. As the leader in companion diagnostics, Roche continues to build on its commitment to improve personalised healthcare to enable better patient outcomes. TUCSO ...

VYLOY is the first and only CLDN18.2-targeted treatment approved in the U.S. for adults with advanced gastric and gastroesophageal junction cancer whose tumors are CLDN18.2 positive TOKYO, Oct. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Astellas Pharma Inc. (TSE: 4503, President and CEO: Naoki Okamura, "Astellas") today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved VYLOY™ (zolbetuximab-clzb) in combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of ad ...

Roche (RHHBY) announced that the FDA has approved pipeline candidate, inavolisib, for the treatment of breast cancer, under the brand name Itovebi. The drug is approved in combination with Pfizer's Ibrance (palbociclib) and fulvestrant for the treatment of adults with endocrine-resistant, PIK3CA-mutated, hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative, locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer, as detected by an FDAapproved test, following recurrence on or after c ...

BRISBANE, Calif., Oct. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Tempest Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: TPST), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing first-in-classi targeted and immune-mediated therapeutics to fight cancer, today announced an agreement with Roche to advance the evaluation of amezalpat (TPST-1120) in combination with atezolizumab (Tecentriq®) and bevacizumab, the current standard of care for unresectable or metastatic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), into a pivotal Phase 3 trial for the first-lin ...

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New TAGS (Temperature-Activated Generation of Signal) technology enables up to 15 targets to be detected simultaneously in a single patient sample on the high throughput molecular diagnostic analysers cobas 5800, 6800 and 8800. TAGS has the potential to revolutionise testing for other infectious diseases in the future, by bringing high throughput customised syndromic panel testing to the routine clinical laboratory. The first TAGS-based test to be made available, the cobas Respiratory flex, offers fast, eff ...

Roche's CINtec PLUS Cytology is the only FDA-approved and CE-marked dual-stain test to triage human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive cervical cancer screening test results Dual-stain biomarkers aid in detection of cervical precancer and may reduce the number of women who undergo unnecessary colposcopy procedures while allowing earlier intervention for those who are at higher risk of developing cervical cancer. This recognition follows the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP)'s recent ...