Recent news on Taxol

GPC Biotech Announces Election of Donald Soltysiak to Supervisory ...  -  25 May 2007
PR Newswire (press release),He is a highly experienced senior pharmaceutical sales executive who led several successful launches of blockbuster oncology drugs, including Taxol and

On the Threshold at Sonus  -  May 15, 2007
Motley FoolI expect Tocosol will demonstrate that it's at least as effective as Taxol, with a lower incidence of side effects, resulting in Food and Drug

Phyton Biotech Acquires Novel Glyco-Engineering Technology, Adds ...  -  May 3, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Phyton is already a leader in plant cell fermentation technology, producing paclitaxel for Bristol-Myers Squibb's TAXOL(R) oncology product.

Labour denies cancer treatments  -  May 10, 2007
Scoop.co.nz,...“Breast cancer drug Taxol, funded finally in September 2006, is an example. New Zealand women watched and waited for two years for this drug to be funded

May 10, 2007: The Next Phase  -  May 10, 2007
Boston Channel.com,I had the first of 12 weekly treatments of Taxol and Herceptin. I got through the treatment just fine with no allergic reactions and no noticeable side

An interestig Manila Congress fight  -  Apr 26, 2007
Manila Times,She cites Taxol, the cancer drug discovered by the National Institutes of Health. Taxol is sold by Bristol-Myers Squibb for $20000 a year,

Quest Group International, Inc. Raises $20 Million, Acquires ...  -  May 18, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),He has played a pivotal role in the development of three marketed drugs including Taxol(R) Paxene(R) and DaunoXome(R) and has served on FDA Advisory

NanoMed Pharmaceuticals Elects Gabriel Leung to Board  -  May 22, 2007
Nanotechnology News (press release)...blockbuster products including Pravachol(R), Taxol(R), and Paraplatin(R). many other therapeutic areas," said Mr. Leung. "I am pleased to have the

Potent Peat  -  May 21, 2007
New Haven Register (subscription),Moreover, the chemotherapy agents taxol, vincristine, lapachol, etoposide, and many other drugs, were derived from plants.

HepaLife Expands Management Team on Heels of Favorable Outcomes of ...  -  May 8, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),Taxol(R) is the first anti-cancer agent to surpass $500 million in US sales, and since FDA approval has generated over $10 billion in revenues.

MFIC Corporation: Wall Street Analyst Forum Presentation Transcript  -  May 22, 2007
Seeking Alpha,Just so that the operator can work on a [Taxol]-based drug rate very safely. So, that's offered for biohazards and all sorts of problematic drugs/units or

`Playing God,' UK Denies Cancer Drugs, Patients Say (Update2)  -  May 17, 2007
Bloomberg...s Taxol for early breast cancer and Bayer AG's Fludara for a type of leukemia. The agency also has issued preliminary opinions that the NHS shouldn't fund

Little Product, Big Profits  -  May 14, 2007
Motley FoolAZN) has helped get the word out to doctors that Abraxane fights breast cancer better than its big brother, Bristol-Myers Squibb's (NYSE: BMY) Taxol.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Reports First Quarter 2007 Financial ...  -  Apr 26, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),The decrease was due primarily to a decline in PRAVACHOL® and TAXOL® sales resulting from increased generic competition, partially offset by strong sales

Australia Opens Doors to World’s Largest Exotic “Nature Bankâ€? -- a ...  -  May 7, 2007
Business Wire (press release),...“Another example is the breast cancer drug paclitaxel (Taxol TM ), which was derived from the stripped bark of the Pacific Yew tree," said Professor Quinn.

Preliminary Studies Show Promise In Fighting Ovarian Cancer  -  May 6, 2007
Milwaukee Channel.com,..."I'm getting a low dose of Taxol weekly," Slota said. Slota's doctor has told her she's a candidate for the new vaccine.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Joins Oslo Cancer Cluster  -  May 4, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Oslo institutions in relation to the development of Taxol, in particular for various indications, specifically with a focus on gynaecological cancers.

Bristol names Cornelius CEO, profit beats forecast  -  Apr 26, 2007
San Diego Union Tribune,Sales of cholesterol fighter Pravachol plunged 75 percent to $135 million, while cancer treatment Taxol fell 24 percent to $111 million, suffering far worse

An Ode to Nature the Druggist  -  Apr 27, 2007
Palm Beach Post,...consider that many of these important new drugs - taxol for example, would have been useless without the intense work of talented medicinal chemists.

Bristol-Myers Squibb relieved to see Plavix back on track  -  Apr 27, 2007
Pharma Times (subscription),...and collapsed 75% to $135 million, while anticancer agent Taxol (paclitaxel) sank 24% to $111 million, due to increased competition in Europe and Japan.

Bristol names Cornelius CEO  -  Apr 26, 2007
WIS,Sales of cholesterol fighter Pravachol plunged 75 percent to $135 million, while cancer treatment Taxol fell 24 percent to $111 million.

An interestig Manila Congress fight  -  26 Apr 2007
Manila Times,She cites Taxol, the cancer drug discovered by the National Institutes of Health. Taxol is sold by Bristol-Myers Squibb for $20000 a year,

Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Reports First Quarter 2007 Financial ...  -  26 Apr 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),The decrease was due primarily to a decline in PRAVACHOL® and TAXOL® sales resulting from increased generic competition, partially offset by strong sales

Bristol names Cornelius CEO  -  26 Apr 2007
KPLC-TV,Sales of cholesterol fighter Pravachol plunged 75 percent to $135 million, while cancer treatment Taxol fell 24 percent to $111 million.

Cancer-Fighting Drug Found in Dirt  -  Apr 24, 2007
FOX NewsScientists originally isolated the drug paclitaxel — now commonly known as Taxol — in 1967 from the bark of Pacific yew trees (Taxus brevifolia) in a forest

Bark is Beautiful  -  Apr 23, 2007
Mother Earth News,In the 1980s, it was discovered that paclitaxel a drug produced from the bark of the Pacific yew and now marketed under the name Taxol was effective in

Researchers synthesize molecule to aid in the fight against cancer  -  Apr 20, 2007
Purdue ExponentTaxol has low solubility in water, some drug resistance and toxicity which can make patients ill. Dictyostatin could be less toxic to the body.

Taxane Use And Dose-Dense Scheduling May Benefit Patients With ...  -  Apr 14, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),Three randomized trials evaluate the addition of paclitaxel (Taxol) to a constant anthracycline-containing regimen; a fourth trial uses docetaxel (Taxotere)

Enhancing chemotherapy's efficacy: new agent has synergistic ...  -  Apr 17, 2007
innovations report,Several widely used drugs, including paclitaxel (Taxol), docetaxel (Taxotere) and long-time standby vincristine, take the latter approach,

Boosting the Power of Chemotherapy  -  Apr 11, 2007
MIT Technology Review,Researchers have used a genome-wide screen to uncover genes that protect lung-cancer cells from Taxol (paclitaxel), a commonly used chemotherapy agent.

Genes May Boost Lung Cancer Chemo  -  Apr 11, 2007
WebMDSome of those genes were 1000 times more sensitive to Taxol when exposed to Taxol for 48 hours, compared with genes that weren't especially sensitive to

Revolution in cancer treatment  -  Apr 12, 2007
Belfast Telegraph,Taxol - also known as paclitaxel - is also used to treat ovarian cancer and advanced breast cancer. Side effects include fatigue, nausea, numbness and bone

Test angst: Awaiting Big Answer  -  Apr 5, 2007
Philadelphia Inquirer,I began receiving weekly intravenous treatments of Taxol, a chemo agent originally derived from the Pacific yew tree, and Herceptin, a monoclonal antibody

Certain genes make chemotherapy drugs more potent at lower doses  -  Apr 16, 2007
TopCancerNews.com,Of these genes, 87 came up with heightened sensitivity to the chemotherapy drug Taxol. To be exact, the genes were 1000 times more sensitive when exposed to

Scientists discover chemotherapy sensitive genes  -  Apr 12, 2007
Pharmaceutical Business ReviewThe researchers re-tested six genes that showed the most dramatic effect with Taxol and tried the same test using the chemotherapy drugs Navelbine and

Pulling for life  -  Apr 5, 2007
Philadelphia Inquirer,That meant weekly chemo treatments with Taxol starting in September and weeks of radiation treatment to my thigh. My goal was not a cure - but to stay alive

Viewpoint: Cancer patients given great new hope  -  Apr 13, 2007
Belfast Telegraph,When some of these genes were silenced by the RNA-i technique, they became a thousand times more sensitive to Taxol and when six genes in particular were

Breakthrough in cancer treatment could provide less traumatic ...  -  Apr 13, 2007
Daily Mail,One of the experiments found that lung cancer tumour cells can be made 10000 times more sensitive to the killing power of the drug Taxol.

Cancer sufferers are given hope of painless treatment  -  Apr 12, 2007
Daily Mail,Taxol, also known as paclitaxel, is also used to treat ovarian cancer and advanced breast cancer. Its side effects treatment include fatigue, nausea,

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) Announces XYOTAX(TM) Has Fast Track ...  -  Apr 12, 2007
Medical News Today (press release),XYOTAX(TM) (paclitaxel poliglumex) is a biologically-enhanced chemotherapeutic that links paclitaxel, the active ingredient in Taxol(R), to a biodegradable

Enhancing chemotherapy's efficacy: new agent has synergistic ...  -  Apr 15, 2007
AND,...both in vitro and in vivo when used with current chemotherapy drugs such as taxanes (Taxol and Taxotere) and vinca-alkaloid compounds such as vincristine.

Gene Screening Points Way to More Effective Chemotherapy  -  Apr 15, 2007
MedIndia,...genes inside isolated lung-cancer cells, they found that those cells were up to 10000 times more sensitive to the chemotherapy drug paclitaxel (Taxol).

Nature – a great assistant to our health  -  Apr 6, 2007
Engineering News (press release),The bark of mature Pacific yew trees (taxus brevifolia) conceals a valuable treasure, the potent antitumor drug paclitaxel, marketed under the name of Taxol

Study uncovers genes which affect chemotherapy impact  -  Apr 13, 2007
Cancer Research UK - News & Resources,...action of certain genes in lung cancer cells rendered the cells up to 10000 times more sensitive to paclitaxel, a chemotherapy drug also known as Taxol.

Genes that help chemo work  -  Apr 12, 2007
The Australian,...genes in human lung-cancer cells, to pick up those that appear to be involved in sensitivity to a frontline chemotherapy drug, paclitaxel or Taxol.

Science students earn trip to Truro  -  Apr 2, 2007
Sudbury Star,For their project, Modern Medicine and Naturopathic Medicine, they treated all the cancer cells with Taxol, a common chemotherapy drug, but then added

Cell Therapeutics Shares Rise on Xyotax  -  Apr 11, 2007
Forbes,The company said it received the FDA designation for Xyotax, an enhanced version of cancer drug Taxol. The new developing version aims at treating

Alcoa Among Wall Street's Movers  -  Apr 11, 2007
Forbes,...and Drug Administration has fast-tracked development of cancer drug Xyotax, described as a "biologically-enhanced" version of chemotherapy drug Taxol.

Cell Therapeutics Cancer Drug Gets for Fast Track Status  -  Apr 11, 2007
International Business Times,The Seattle-based firm said that its drug, a modified version of cancer drug Taxol, will launch a phase III trial of its drug with 300 poor performance

Fractionated Chemotherapy Can Reduce Side Effects  -  Apr 3, 2007
KDKA,Experts say the more common chemotherapy drugs, like Taxol and Taxotere, can be fractionated, but the technique may not work for others.

Avastin approved in Europe for first line treatment of women with  -  Apr 2, 2007
WebWire (press release),...for the first line treatment of women with metastatic breast cancer in combination with a standard chemotherapy paclitaxel (originally branded Taxol).

Health Alert: Fractionated chemo  -  Mar 28, 2007
WIS,The more common chemotherapy drugs like Taxol and Taxotere can be fractionated. It may not work for others, so check with your doctor.

Kids like vegetables they grow  -  Apr 24, 2007
Belleville News-Democrat,Those products range from aspirin to taxol, the anti-cancer drug discovered in the Pacific yew tree. About half of all anti-cancer drugs introduced since

TODAY ON PHARMALIVE.COM  -  Apr 19, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Avastin(R) (bevacizumab) is a registered trademark of Genentech Inc. Taxol(R) (paclitaxel) is a registered trademark of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company.

12 ESSENTIAL HERBS  -  Apr 23, 2007
Mother Earth News,That includes aspirin, which originally came from white willow bark, and the cancer drug taxol, which is derived from the Pacific yew tree.

The Invention Machine  -  Apr 3, 2007
Hawaii Business Magazine,Proponents point to the cancer drug, Taxol, as the poster child of how successful the relationship can be. According to the Association of University

Novartis licences lead cancer candidate from Antisoma  -  Apr 23, 2007
In-PharmaTechnologist.com,...treatment of paclitaxel and carboplatin (Bristol-Myers Squibb as Taxol and Paraplatin) originally marketed by than with the chemotherapy alone.

Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) Announces XYOTAX(TM) Has Fast Track ...  -  Apr 11, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),About XYOTAX XYOTAX(TM) (paclitaxel poliglumex) is a biologically-enhanced chemotherapeutic that links paclitaxel, the active ingredient in Taxol(R),

Pioneering A&M chemist dies  -  Apr 21, 2007
Bryan College Station Eagle,...chlorophyll and heme, the cancer drug taxol and other antibiotics that fundamentally affected the field of biosynthetic investigation, officials said.

EntreMed Presents Mechanism Data for Its Three Lead Oncology Compounds  -  Mar 29, 2007
Drug Newswire (press release),There are three drug binding sites on tubulin: the vinca binding domain, the taxol- binding site and colchicine-binding site.

Researchers improve anti-cancer treatment  -  Apr 19, 2007
Science Daily (press release)2007) -- US medical scientists say they have identified a protein that regulates the effectiveness of Taxol chemotherapy in breast cancer patients.

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