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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. Sarah Bundra, Pharmaceutical Analyst at GlobalData also warned about patient safety: “introducing mRNA carries the risk of activating the immune system.”

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Cancer: Progress but a long way to go

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What treatment works in one patient may not work in another but we have to keep trying to beat cancer anyway we can. 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. ” There is also the issue of medical debt of surviving cancer patients.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Targeting toxic species of Abeta, such as multimers (with aducanumab and lecanemab) or pyroglutamate Abeta3-42 (with donanemab), induced significant removal of Abeta plaque load in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, leading to the delay in cognitive decline. Treatment with the mAbs delayed cognitive decline by 2.6 months for lecanemab and 5.5