Patents Assigned to Besins Healthcare Luxembourg SARL
  • Patent number: 8729057
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved transdermal hydroalcoholic testosterone gen formulation that provides, among other things, a desirable pharmacokinetic hormone profile, and methods of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignees: Unimed Pharmaeuticals, LLC, Besins Healthcare Luxembourg SARL
    Inventors: Ramana Malladi, Jodi Stahlman
  • Patent number: 8475814
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions of 4-hydroxy tamoxifen, particularly compositions suitable for percutaneous administration, are useful in methods for treating and preventing breast cancer. When percutaneously administered to a patient's breasts, 4-hydroxy tamoxifen concentrates locally, and exerts an anti-estrogenic effect. In patients with breast cancer, this effect reduces tumor tissue proliferation. In patients at risk for developing breast cancer, the anti-estrogenic effect prevents breast tumor formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Besins Healthcare Luxembourg SARL
    Inventors: Philippe Rouanet, Dominique Salin Drouin, Jacques Wepierre
  • Patent number: 8476252
    Abstract: Described are a sterile, ready-to-use, pharmaceutical oil-in water emulsion compositions for parenteral administration comprising: 0.015 to 1.2% wt/vol of progestogen; 0.5-30% wt/vol oil, wherein the oil comprises at least 85% wt/wt triglyceride; 0.0425-12.5% wt/vol phospholipid; 61.4-99.4% wt/vol aqueous medium; wherein the phospholipid is present in an amount of 6.8%-43% of the oil (wt/wt), and wherein the progestogen is present in an amount greater than or equal to 2.1 wt % of the oil. Also described are methods of making such compositions and method of using such compositions in therapeutic or prophylactic treatment, such as treatments comprising intravenous administration of the pharmaceutical composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Besins Healthcare Luxembourg SARL
    Inventors: Georg Achleitner, Eva-Maria Hoiser, Laura Pickersgill
  • Patent number: 8435561
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising micronized progesterone, soya bean lecithin, and at least one oil selected from the group consisting of sunflower oil, olive oil, sesame see oil, colza oil, almond oil, to the method for the preparation thereof and to the uses thereof for treating a physiological condition linked to insufficiency of progesterone secretion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Besins Healthcare Luxembourg Sarl
    Inventors: Antoine Besins, Jerome Besse
  • Patent number: 8431557
    Abstract: Described are estradiol-containing pharmaceutical compositions and, and methods using the same to alleviate menopause-related symptoms, such as hot flushes, by topically administering estradiol at low effective doses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2013
    Assignee: Besins Healthcare Luxembourg SARL
    Inventors: John Brennan, Earl E. Sands, Rex Horton, Zurab Bebia