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FDA Calls for New Safety Warning for the Class of CAR T Cancer Therapies

MedCity News

Two months after announcing an inquiry into reports of new cancers in patients treated with CAR T-cell therapies, the FDA is directing makers of these therapies to add new safety warnings to product labels describing this risk. Companies have 30 calendar days to comply.

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Patient Death Prompts FDA Hold on Tests of Drug in Atopic Dermatitis & Asthma

MedCity News

The FDA clinical hold follows a patient death from liver failure that may be associated with zelnecirnon, an experimental Rapt Therapeutics drug. The biotech notes that no other patient has experienced liver problems and this safety signal has not been seen in any other tests of the molecule.

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Generative AI’s potential to speed delivery of improved patient outcomes

Clarivate

We’re mindful of some challenges that life science and healthcare organizations must work through before this technology is mature enough for use in critical business decisions that may impact patient health. Our customers entrust our products and services to help them improve patient health, and we will not jeopardize that mission.

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How Risk-Based Quality Management Improves Data Quality, Patient Safety, Accelerating Drug Development

MedCity News

Risk-based quality management, or RBQM, is the process by which pharmaceutical organizations monitor and manage quality throughout clinical trials.

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Meeting rising demands of a new radiotheranostic era

European Pharmaceutical Review

Cancer patients critically depend on accurate diagnosis and disease treatment. By reaching cancer cells that have already spread throughout the body, a targeted radiopharmaceutical treatment offers an alternative for patients with advanced cancer when standard lines of treatment, such as chemotherapy, have failed.

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How clinical outcome assessments can help us understand the patient experience

Clarivate

Clinical outcome assessments can take years to generate but may pay big dividends in patient-focused drug development, centering the patient experience and potentially bolstering a product’s case with regulators and payers. A clinical outcome assessment is a measure that describes or reflects how a patient feels, functions or survives.

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Cell and Gene Therapies – When Speed Matters

PharmaTech

Recognizing the urgency associated with short shelf-life products, Eurofins BioPharma Product Testing has developed a comprehensive set of services to address the need for swift and reliable testing. Eurofins acknowledges the significance of Cell and Gene Therapies, particularly Autologous Cell Therapies , in the healthcare industry.