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Biogen touted an “unprecedented” drop in tau in a Phase 2 trial, backing the company’s decision to take diranersen to Phase 3 despite a missed primary endpoint and seemingly supporting the anti-tau approach.
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As antibody-drug conjugates advance and move into earlier lines of treatment, drug developers have to build gentler therapies that don’t just extend survival but improve it.
FDA’s rare disease decisions are strongest when the patient community has a voice in advisory committee decisions.
The lineup at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference will provide critical insight into where the industry is headed with regard to targets being explored to vanquish the elusive neurodegenerative disease.
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Congressional letters sent to the CEOs of Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Merck, BMS and AbbVie this week voicing concerns about the pharmas’ clinical trials in China highlight an ongoing discrepancy in how government and industry think about the rise of the Asian country’s biotech industry.
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Abdera Therapeutics will use the money to fund its ROVEr platform and advance its lead asset ABD-147 for small-cell lung cancer.
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Polivy is approved for front-line DLBCL as part of a combination regimen including Rituxan, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin and prednisone.
As companies prioritize in-person work, many have begun to do more to incentivize a reluctant workforce to come into the office.
When a person notifies their employer that they have a disability, the company must make a good-faith effort to adjust to enable the employee to continue in their job.
The leaked data show that Carvykti cuts the risk of disease relapse by 74% versus standard chemotherapy regimens.
Lilly investigators said they hoped to differentiate their Phase I candidate from the competitive KRAS space by making it the first to gain approval as a first-line treatment.
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Qulipta’s label expansion makes it the first oral CGRP receptor antagonist approved for episodic and chronic migraine.
The checkpoint inhibitor improved patient outcomes in three cancer trials, according to results presented at the AACR meeting.
The acquisition of Bellus Health will give GSK access to camlipixant, a potentially best-in-class P2X3 antagonist for chronic cough.
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Omisirge is approved for patients who receive cord blood transplantation following myeloablative therapy.