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Oral flu vaccine melts in your mouth

Delivery company MonoSol Rx is collaborating with BiondVax Pharmaceuticals to develop an oral flu vaccine in a thin film that melts in the mouth in less than 20 seconds, creating a dose that could be stable enough to be mailed out to patients.

Chiasma closes multimillion-dollar funding to support oral acromegaly trial

Privately held biopharma Chiasma has closed a $38.5 million equity financing and will use the funding to complete the pivotal Phase III trial of Octreolin, an oral formulation of the peptide octreotide in development for the treatment of acromegaly. The clinical trial is expected to complete in the second quarter of 2013.

Intellipharmaceutics raises $5M to advance tamper-resistant oxycodone

Canada's Intellipharmaceutics International ($IPCI), a specialist in controlled-release drug formulations, is raising $5 million to fuel anticipated U.S. clinical trials for Rexista, a patented version of the highly addictive pain killer oxycodone designed to resist abuse.

GW's cannabis-based mouth spray gains Austrian OK for MS spasms

British drug developer GW Pharmaceutical will debut its cannabis-based pain therapy Sativex in Austria as a treatment for MS-related spasticity sometime in 2012, following regulatory approval

Pharmaxis-supported study shows potential for inhaled powder CF treatment

Adding a new long-term inhaled dry powder version of mannitol to standard therapy helps improve lung function in cystic fibrosis patients for up to a year, according to a new study. But the forced

Unigene regains treatment rights as GSK backs out

Unigene Laboratories ( $UGNE ) says it has regained the global rights to an oral formulation of a parathyroid hormone analog to treat osteoporosis in postmenopausal women from GlaxoSmithKline ( $GSK ).

FDA pins approval on new formulation of Ambien

To answer the question we raised in last week's issue of FierceDrugDelivery: Yes, the third time was a charm for Transcept ( $TSPT ) in its quest for FDA approval of its sleep drug. U.S. regulators

Novartis falls short in trial for oral osteoporosis drug

Novartis Pharma's ( $NVS ) oral formulation of calcitonin to treat for post-menopausal osteoporosis failed to meet its primary endpoint or key secondary endpoints in a crucial critical trial....

Mystery RNAi player taps Access Pharma for oral delivery tech

Access Pharmaceuticals ( $ACCP ) has landed a deal to provide its drug-delivery technology to an unnamed "major" developer of RNA-interference drugs. The deal covers use of Access's...

Access Pharma tapping investors for $5.2M

Access Pharmaceuticals has accessed the investment community for a $5.2 million private placement, as the developer aims to beef up sales of one of its products that uses its hydrogel tech to prevent...