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Preventative approach could reduce immunotherapy side effects

European Pharmaceutical Review

Immunotherapy drugs like teclistamab can result in potentially fatal side effects, including CRS and immune cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS). The drug tocilizumab for example, has been used historically to treat CRS from immunotherapies. We are going with full steam into an era of immunotherapy.”

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Lilly has a new blockbuster

World of DTC Marketing

Food and Drug Administration approved Eli Lilly’s novel treatment for diabetes. The drug led to impressive blood sugar and body weight drops in clinical trials. Will patients, who are obese and don’t have Type 2 diabetes, ask for the drug for weight loss, and will patients understand the risks?

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FDA approves first drug to delay type 1 diabetes

European Pharmaceutical Review

Tzield (teplizumab-mzwv), the first drug to help prolong the onset of stage 3 type 1 diabetes in adults and children over eight years old with stage 2 type 1 diabetes, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Tzield clinical trials that supported the US Food and Drug Administration approval.

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A scientific approach to irrational consumer choices

World of DTC Marketing

GOOD MORNING: The FDA is taking a scientific approach to evaluating direct-to-consumer (DTC) drug advertising, focusing on measuring consumer perceptions of the information presented in ads. Presenting quantitative information increased participants’ gist and verbatim recall of drug efficacy. ” Uh…no.

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Clinical trials authorised for 3D-printed ulcerative colitis drug

European Pharmaceutical Review

a China-based pharma company has announced it has received clearance for its Investigational New Drug (IND) application from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate clinical studies of T21, a 3D-printed medicine that can target specific segments in the colon to more safely deliver oral ulcerative colitis (UC) drugs.

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Is it too late for Biogen?

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Biogen will partner with Roche on the development, and potential sale of a promising cancer drug the Swiss pharma is advancing for several types of lymphoma, announcing Tuesday it’s exercised an option to share rights to the treatment. Food and Drug Administration on Biogen Inc.’s

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Developing a first-in-class small molecule drug for inflammatory disease

European Pharmaceutical Review

Following her presentation on age-related disease at BioFuture 2023, Executive Vice President of Drug Development for MyMD Pharmaceuticals ® , Jenna Brager, shares with EPR why the company’s next-generation tumour necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha inhibitor has potential in inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.