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Eli Lilly’s anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s drug is designed to be stopped after patients drop below a certain amyloid level in the brain. However, at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference on Wednesday, Lilly revealed it is studying the potential of maintenance therapy for patients who need it.
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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.
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.
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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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In a 12-1 tally, the FDA’s Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee determined that the data does not establish a clinically meaningful benefit in this indication.
The company won the third FDA approval in a month for the anti-PD-1 blockbuster, allowing its first-line use in locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.
To help cope with the high demand for weight-loss treatments, Eli Lilly is investing $2.5 billion in a German manufacturing facility after last week’s FDA approval of Zepbound for chronic weight management.
When given hours ahead of an expected episode, a late-stage study showed the preventive benefits of Ubrelvy in safely reducing moderate or severe headaches within 24 hours of treatment.
BioSpace takes a deep dive into five investigational therapeutic cancer vaccines that have recently shown efficacy in difficult-to-treat indications.
After Bristol Myers Squibb picked up Augtyro as part of its $4.1 billion takeover of Turning Point Therapeutics last year, the ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer drug reached the regulatory finish line on Wednesday.
The Japanese pharma contends that an analysis of the four deaths in its AT132 gene therapy clinical trial shows it is still viable as a potential treatment for a fatal, rare genetic disease.
The U.K.’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency on Thursday provided conditional marketing authorization for Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics’ gene-edited therapy exa-cel.
Just a week after it secured FDA approval, Eli Lilly’s Zepbound now faces a challenge from Novo Nordisk’s investigational next-generation weight-loss candidate CagriSema in a Phase III trial.
Approved under the Limited Population Pathway for Antibacterial and Antifungal Drugs, CorMedix’s DefenCath reduces the incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infections in adult hemodialysis patients.