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ATLANTA, GA — Alimera Sciences, Inc., a global pharmaceutical company whose mission is to be invaluable to patients, physicians and partners concerned with retinal health and maintaining better vision longer, today announces that it has completed enrollment for the company’s Synchronicity Study, a prospective, open-label clinical study evaluating the safety...
DUBLIN, Ireland — Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) today announced topline results from a phase 3, open-label extension study assessing the long-term safety, tolerability and durability of treatment effect of LYBALVI® (olanzapine and samidorphan) in patients with schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder or bipolar I disorder for up to four years of treatment, following treatment...
Chicago, Illinois – Patients with muscle-invasive urothelial cancer and a high risk of recurrence after surgery may have a new treatment option. The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology today announced positive results from the phase III AMBASSADOR (A031501) trial for the adjuvant treatment of patients with localized muscle-invasive urothelial...
In a recent study, patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) who have myelofibrosis (MF) showed a worse prognosis when MF was of greater severity. However, this pattern of severity influencing prognosis appeared negated with allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT). The study findings were reported in the journal Experimental Hematology & Oncology....
The brain is indeed a target for treating ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered. This flips a long-standing belief that the disease starts in the spinal motor neurons and any therapy would need to target the spine as the key focus. A new Northwestern study shows the degeneration...
REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Alvotech, a global biotech company specializing in the development and manufacture of biosimilar medicines for patients worldwide, today announced positive top-line results from a confirmatory clinical study for AVT06, Alvotech’s proposed biosimilar to Eylea® (aflibercept). “The progress of our product pipeline clearly illustrates the advantage of our...
Luxembourg – In a new position paper, and following engagement with its national members and the European Working Group of People with Dementia (EWGPWD), Alzheimer Europe calls for concrete actions to enable timely, safe and equitable access to anti-amyloid drugs, for patients who are most likely to benefit from these...
Charlottesville, VA – University of Virginia Alzheimer’s researchers have discovered how harmful tau proteins damage the essential operating instructions for our brain cells, a finding which could lead to new treatments. The toxic protein, the researchers found, warps the shape of the nuclei of nerve cells, or neurons. This alters...
London, England – Five cases of Alzheimer’s disease are believed to have arisen as a result of medical treatments decades earlier, reports a team of UCL and UCLH researchers. Alzheimer’s disease is caused by the amyloid-beta protein, and is usually a sporadic condition of late adult life, or more rarely...