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Key developments: mRNA vaccines and therapeutics

European Pharmaceutical Review

A key benefit of mRNA therapeutics is that manufacturing time is fast compared to antibodies or protein-based drugs. The research also identified other challenges for mRNA therapeutics’ delivery , including their high cost, susceptibility to degradation by ribonucleases and limitations with drug delivery systems.

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Cancer: Progress but a long way to go

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The mortality rate from lung cancer has dropped in recent decades—by 56% in men from 1990 to 2019 and by 32% in women from 2002 to 2019. Medicare spent nearly $600 million over three years to pay for cancer care involving four drugs later found to provide no clinical benefit for some forms of the disease. sustaining life)?

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Limitations of monoclonal antibody therapies Regulatory approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for aducanumab and lecanemab – and likely very soon for donanemab also – opened a route for different therapeutic modalities and other relevant disease targets, such as tau.