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By many standards, and certainly by the way the media covers it and industry promotes it, immuno-oncology therapies using CAR-T are revolutionizing cancer treatments. But what if, as the saying goes, they threw a revolution and nobody came? Or more precisely, what if they threw a revolution and no one was willing to pay for it?
According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), pancreatic cancer is relatively rare, with about 55,440 cases diagnosed annually, representing about 3.2 percent of new cancer cases. But each year, 44,330 Americans die from the disease, or about 7.3 percent of cancer deaths.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Merck & Co.’s Keytruda another approval, this one in combination with Alimta (pemetrexed) and platinum chemotherapy for first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.
H. Gilbert Welch, a health care policy scholar at Dartmouth College, reportedly plagiarized part of the contents in a 2016 New England Journal of Medicine article. The article focused on breast cancer screening and the increased likelihood of tumors being overdiagnosed.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has done another about-face. Days after rejecting Regeneron’s attempt to secure a supplemental approval for Eylea, the FDA has now approved a new dosing label for the drug in wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
Genentech is slashing 223 jobs at its South San Francisco headquarters, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification posted on a California state government website. The layoffs will go into effect on Aug. 31, according to the WARN posting.
As Novartis wrangles with the fallout from its association with Michael Cohen and the fees it paid his consulting company for access to the administration of President Donald Trump, the Swiss pharma giant has brought on a new chief ethics officer.
It’s not easy to predict trends in drugs, especially with breakthroughs in immunology and genetic engineering often causing dramatic changes in how biopharma companies approach new drugs.
Tarrytown, N.Y.-based Regeneron received some unwelcome news. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rejected the company’s attempt to secure a supplemental approval for its blockbuster drug Eylea as a once-per 12-week treatment for wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD).
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