Following the results, the company filed approval applications with the FDA and the European Medicines Agency.
The European Medicines Agency recommended the therapy was made available for the most severely ill patients earlier in 2012.
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has approved omalizumab for people in this category who have allergic asthma and who are over 12 years of age.
On Monday, Thomas Lonngren, the head of the European Medicines Agency, said such a human vaccine might not be ready before next year's winter flu season.
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From January 2014 the European Medicines Agency will publish all clinical study reports - the data behind medical trials, which often run into hundreds of pages.
The change follows new advice from the European Medicines Agency.
Regulatory agencies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency, are closely scrutinizing stem cell therapies they are asked to review and approve.
The drug has been approved by the European Medicines Agency.
In fact, Arena last week withdrew its application to market Belvia in Europe after the European Medicines Agency pointed to potential cardiovascular risks and tumors found in animal studies.
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The European Medicines Agency said in July studies had shown a six to 13-fold increased risk of narcolepsy in children and adolescents vaccinated with Pandemrix compared with unvaccinated children.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have not recommended any change to the way that healthcare practitioners in Europe and the developing world use Rotarix.
This month, a committee from the European Medicines Agency recommended the approval of a gene therapy drug, named Glybera (alipogene tiparvovec), for the treatment of a rare inherited genetic disorder.
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The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency today recommended that mipomersen (Kynamro, Isis and Genzyme) not be approved for use in Europe.
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Based on a careful review of applications for novel therapeutic agents approved from 2001 through 2010, we found that the FDA was almost two months faster than the European Medicines Agency and Health Canada.
But what about the European Medicines Agency (EMA)?
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Most of the accounts for 2009 were signed off at the plenary session in May this year, with the exception of the European Police College (CEPOL), the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and, most notably, the Council of Ministers.
The analysis, published online this month by the journal Health Affairs, appears to refute critics who have charged the Food and Drug Administration is less efficient than the European Medicines Agency and has been slower to approve new cancer drugs.
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Ms Nickless, whose 15-month old daughter has G551D cystic fibrosis, said she wanted the drug to be made available to patients of all ages, despite the European Medicines Agency advising it only be given to people over six years old.
The FDA action follows a similar decision by the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency, which announced last week that it had recommended that Pradaxa be contraindicated in patients with prosthetic heart valves.
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The Visudyne dye, which is manufactured by drug company CIBA UK, was approved by the European Medicines Evaluation Agency four weeks ago after being tested in two 12-month clinical trials.
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