Today, Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) employees from 145 company sites in 70 countries participate in the 14th Roche Children's Walk. The annual event raises funds for children’s education and health initiatives in more than 90 communities around the world. The company matches all funds raised for the campaign.

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) and Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation for tanezumab for the treatment of chronic pain in patients with osteoarthritis (OA) and chronic low back pain (CLBP). Tanezumab is an investigational humanized monoclonal antibody that selectively targets, binds to and inhibits nerve growth factor (NGF).

Bayer Grants4Apps® is calling all mature teams, startups and companies that have a solution ready to go. The new Dealmaker is all about quality facetime between you and Grants4Apps' experts for one full day. If there is a match, you will be invited to Berlin to pitch your solution, discuss collaboration options and close a deal. Find out, if there is a mutual interest to start a bigger journey.

With the founding of BI X as independent subsidiary Boehringer Ingelheim will focus on breakthrough innovative digital solutions in healthcare from idea to pilot. The start-up will work closely together with all three business units of the company - Human Pharma, Animal Health and Biopharmaceuticals.

Novartis today announced that it will present 19 scientific abstracts at the 59th Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Headache Society (June 8-11, 2017, Boston, USA). This includes a new analysis from a pivotal study highlighting the efficacy of AMG 334 (erenumab) in patients with 15 or more headache days a month (chronic migraine) and a recent history of acute migraine medication overuse.

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) has announced that the phase III ALEX study showed Alecensa® (alectinib) significantly reduced the risk of disease worsening or death (progression-free survival, PFS) by more than half (53%) compared to crizotinib when given as initial (first-line) treatment for people with anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) (hazard ratio (HR)=0.47, 95% CI: 0.34-0.65, p<0.0001).

AstraZeneca has entered an agreement with Grünenthal for the global rights to Zomig (zolmitriptan) outside Japan. Zomig is indicated for the acute treatment of migraines and cluster headaches, an area of medicine outside AstraZeneca's strategic focus.