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This week holds moments of truth for Provention’s type 1 diabetes drug and bluebird bio’s gene therapy for beta-thalassemia. Amicus and Incyte are coming up at the end of the month.
CRISPR Therapeutics, Clovis Oncology and VistaGen all released Q2 results this week, while GreenLight Biosciences has some extra cash to work with.
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Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca report another first-in-class approval for Enhertu, Bayer snags an sNDA in metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer and Merck faces contamination challenges with Januvia.
Researchers have found that the use of a cell phone technology-based polytherapeutic that delivers white noise can improve symptoms for people suffering from tinnitus.
Roche and Pfizer shared positive news from their respective forays into a new pneumococcal vaccine for infants and a treatment for influenza in small children.
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu has been approved by the FDA as the first HER2-directed medicine for the treatment of patients with HER2-mutant metastatic NSCLC.
Two patients receiving Novartis’ SMA gene therapy Zolgensma have died from acute liver failure, the company reported Thursday.
In a small pilot study, the implants were able to restore corneal thickness and curvature to normal levels, and vision outcomes were as good as if human-donated corneas had been used.
Amgen announced two lung cancer studies with mixed results, Innovent dosed the first patient in a Phase I diabetic macular edema study and HUTCHMED hit the primary endpoint in colorectal cancer.
Scientists from the University of Edinburgh have shown that Terazosin approved for high blood pressure and prostate enlargement could be repurposed for another unlikely indication: ALS.
In a first, Prolacta Bioscience recently published a proof of concept study showing that components of human breast milk can treat the adult microbiome without antibiotics.
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