Tel Aviv Health News

Incyte Corp., the Wilmington, Del., drug developer focused on cancer, inflammation and diabetes, said it licensed two investigational hematology-oncology therapies to Novartis, the Basel health-care giant. Phase I development as a potential treatment for multiple cancers.

Over 90,000 people in Israel have received swine flu vaccinations do far, of which 43 developed side effects, the Health Ministry reported on Tuesday. Of the people who did suffer from side effects, 11 people experienced swelling and redness in...

A recent Health Ministry report found "systemic failings" in the functioning of the intensive care unit at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. The hospital said in response that lessons have been learned and implemented. The report examined the circumstances of...

Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd., the Basel drugmaker, said on Wednesday that Health Canada cleared the company to market Toctino, generically alitretinoin, to treat adults with severe chronic hand eczema whose condition hadn't responded to topical corticosteroids.

The Genentech subsidiary of Roche , the Basel health-care giant, said on Tuesday that it submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration two applications to market Avastin to treat women who have not received chemotherapy for advanced HER2-negative breast...

A 51-year-old Nazareth woman who suffered from high blood pressure died on Monday from complications of swine flu, becoming the 48th person to die of the pandemic in Israel. Her high blood pressure could not be counted as a serious...