NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) announced that data from its ongoing Phase 1 through Phase 3 hepatitis C clinical development programs will be presented at The Liver Meeting®, the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD) in Boston, November 7-11, 2014.

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NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved HUMIRA^® (adalimumab) for reducing signs and symptoms, and achieving and maintaining clinical remission, in pediatric Crohn's disease patients 6 years of age and older when certain other treatments have not worked well enough. This FDA approval represents the eighth indication for HUMIRA in the United States and makes it the first and only biologic treatment approved for use in this patient population that can be administered at home.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) announced that data from several clinical studies evaluating potential new medicines in the company's oncology pipeline will be presented at the upcoming 2014 European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) Annual Congress, September 26-30, in Madrid, Spain. Data being presented include results from a Phase 2 study evaluating the safety and efficacy of veliparib (ABT-888), a poly (adenosine diphosphate [ADP]–ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor, in combination with two broad-acting chemotherapeutic medicines in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Sept. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced results from a Phase 3 pivotal study demonstrating that HUMIRA^® (adalimumab) is effective in reducing common clinical signs and symptoms in moderate-to-severe hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), specifically the number of abscesses and inflammatory nodules. These data were presented at the 44^th Annual European Society for Dermatological Research (ESDR) Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark.³

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) will participate in the Morgan Stanley Global Healthcare Conference on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Bill Chase, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will make a formal presentation on the company at 9:20 a.m. Central time.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: INFI) and AbbVie Inc. (NYSE: ABBV) today announced that they have entered into a global collaboration to develop and commercialize duvelisib (IPI-145), Infinity's oral inhibitor of phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)-delta and PI3K-gamma, for the treatment of patients with cancer. Duvelisib has shown clinical activity across a broad range of blood cancers, including indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). Infinity is conducting registration-focused trials evaluating the safety and efficacy of duvelisib, including DYNAMO^TM, a Phase 2 study in patients with iNHL, and DUO^TM, a Phase 3 study in patients with CLL.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill. and SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) and Calico announced a novel R&D collaboration intended to help the two companies discover, develop and bring to market new therapies for patients with age-related diseases, including for neurodegeneration and cancer.

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --  AbbVie today announced the 40 outstanding students with cystic fibrosis (CF) who will each receive $2,500 to pursue their undergraduate or graduate school education during the 2014-2015 school year through the AbbVie CF Scholarship program. Voting for two of the 40 winners to earn the title of 2014 Thriving Undergraduate or Graduate Scholar is now open to the public at www.AbbVieCFScholarship.com until September 15. 

NORTH CHICAGO, Ill., Aug. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) today announced the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have granted orphan drug designation to AbbVie's investigational compound ABT-414, an anti-epidermal growth factor receptor antibody drug conjugate, which is being evaluated for safety and efficacy in patients with glioblastoma multiforme.¹ Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and most aggressive type of malignant primary brain tumor. Each year in the U.S. and Europe, two to three out of every 100,000 people are diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, which has a five year survival rate of approximately four percent.²