Roche announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Mircera (methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta) for the treatment of anaemia associated with chronic kidney ...

-- First Publication of Phase III Data in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology Results from a multi-centre renal anaemia study show that switching patients directly from frequent ...

being a common adverse event and a burden for patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

The approval was based on an open-label, multiple dose, multicenter, dose-finding study in 64 pediatric patients with CKD who were on hemodialysis and who had stable hemoglobin levels while previously ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . It is an exciting time in the treatment of renal anemia, with several new therapies recently launched or ...

US regulators have given the green light to Roche's new anaemia drug Mircera, but no launch across the Atlantic is likely for some time as the Swiss firm is embroiled in a legal dispute it is losing ...

Researchers have successfully developed a new electrophoretic method for detecting MIRCERA and other erythropoietins (EPO) in the blood. The technique, using SARCOSYL-PAGE, has specifically enhanced ...

Roche announced today that the European Commission has approved its innovative drug Mircera to treat anaemia associated with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The approval of Mircera results in a single ...

Subcutaneous injections are a method of administering medication just under the skin, between the fatty tissue and muscle. It allows medication to be absorbed slowly over a longer period of time.

(4) For patients not currently treated with an erythropoiesis stimulating agent (ESA), the recommended starting dose is 0.6 microgram/kg body weight, administered once every two weeks as a single ...

three times a week for the maintenance treatment of anaemia. The study results showed: - Minute changes in patients' haemoglobin (Hb) levels from baseline to evaluation (-0.131g/dL for MIRCERA once ...