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The European Society for Medical Oncology Congress 2021 runs from September 16–21, 2021. Here’s a preview of some of the presentations at the meeting.
AI can enable the analysis of massive databases, accelerate research and development, save costs and promote effective decision making.
A new study on COVID-19 behavior has found that patients affected by the virus might have died due to a buildup of coronavirus directly in the lungs and not because of a secondary infection.
Biopharma and life sciences companies from across the globe provide updates on their pipelines and businesses.
The results published in the NEJM state that pegcetacoplan met the study’s primary endpoint for efficacy, demonstrating an advantage over eculizumab with a statistically significant improvement in adjusted means of 3.8 g/dL of hemoglobin at week 16 (p<0.001). An impressive 85% of patients were transfusion free at 16 weeks, in contrast to only 15% of eculizumab-treated patients.
The AMR Action Fund is ramping up its infrastructure – announcing yesterday that former Novartis Venture Funds Head, Henry Skinner, will take the helm as the organization’s first chief executive officer.
It was a very busy week for clinical trial updates. Here’s a look.
Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company announced that the EMPEROR-Reduced Phase III trial in adults with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, with and without diabetes, met the primary endpoint.
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The approval was based on two randomized open-label clinical trials that evaluated the combination of empagliflozin, linagliptin and metformin and their individual components in healthy adults.
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