SANTA CRUZ, California – New Living with Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic Syndrome (LEMS), a rare autoimmune disorder affecting the nerves and muscles, often requires seeing multiple specialists to help with your condition. That’s partly because 50 percent to 60 percent of cases are paraneoplastic, meaning they co-occur with cancer, particularly small-cell lung...
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SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – Quince Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: QNCX), a late-stage biotechnology company dedicated to unlocking the power of a patient’s own biology for the treatment of rare diseases, today announced the poster presentation of patient-reported walking capacity in children with Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) at the 54th Child Neurology Society (CNS)...
ASHBURN, Va. — Quoin Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on rare and orphan diseases, today announced that it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to implement a number of protocol amendments to its two ongoing clinical trials for QRX003, which is being developed as a...
Reston, VA — Radioguided surgery can detect and remove metastatic pelvic lymph nodes in patients newly diagnosed with prostate cancer, according to research published in the March issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. Targeting the prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA), which is overexpressed in most prostate cancer patients, radioguided surgery can improve...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Rallybio, a clinical-stage biotechnology company committed to identifying and accelerating the development of life-transforming therapies for patients with severe and rare disorders, today announced that clinical proof of concept has been established in the ongoing Phase 1/2 study of RLYB211. RLYB211, a polyclonal anti-HPA-1a antibody, is...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Rallybio Corporation announced preliminary Phase 1 multiple ascending dose (MAD) data for RLYB116, an innovative, long-acting, low volume subcutaneously injected inhibitor of complement component 5 (C5), in development for patients with complement-mediated diseases. The Phase 1 MAD study for RLYB116 evaluated the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics (PK),...
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Rallybio, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to identifying and accelerating the development of life-transforming therapies for patients with severe and rare disorders, today announced the details of two previously undisclosed pipeline programs. RLYB212 is a novel monoclonal antibody to human platelet antigen (HPA)-1a in preclinical development...
Bellingham, Washington – More than 50 million people worldwide live with epilepsy, with approximately half of them being children. For about one-third of these patients, medications do not control their seizures, leaving surgery as the only viable option for seizure relief. Seizures in 60 percent of these drug-resistant cases start...
Cambridge, Mass. – Drug development is typically slow: the pipeline from basic research discoveries that provide the basis for a new drug to clinical trials to production of a widely available medicine can take decades. But decades can feel impossibly far off to someone who currently has a fatal disease....
Ottawa, Canada – How can someone have alcohol intoxication without consuming alcohol? Auto-brewery syndrome, a rare condition in which gut fungi create alcohol through fermentation, is described in a case study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal) https://www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.231319. “Auto-brewery syndrome carries substantial social, legal, and medical consequences for patients and...