Sanofi has about 10 pharmaceutical products in late-stage development.

The coalfield experienced a late-stage development when opencast mining was commenced on a large scale, mostly on the gently-dipping north crop.

The Financial Times reports that the idea is to create incentives to develop new products and speed up market entry for manufacturers with tests that are in late-stage development.

Actelion currently has 10 compounds in its pipeline - including 3 in late-stage development - and 4 medicines on the market for orphan diseases:

Likewise granting very ill patients earlier access to drugs in late-stage development.

(Its most promising medicine in late-stage development is a vaccine for human papilloma virus, the major cause of cervical cancer.)

Nonetheless, the global community must be careful to maintain the effectiveness of current anthelmintic as no new anthelmintic drugs are in the late-stage development.

The drug is one of four compounds in late-stage development to combat TBI, and is the only one expected to reach the market before 2019.

Glaxo Wellcome's alosetron, an irritable-bowel-syndrome drug in late-stage development, was recently discovered to work only in women.

Biotie is in the process of planning a Phase 2 trial in COPD patients and also seeking a partner for late-stage development of ronomilast.