Zurich, Switzerland – Hydrogels have a variety of use cases, including contact lenses, delivering doses of medication within the body, moisturisers, water storage in soil, cleaning polluted water and as gelling and thickening agents. A hydrogel is a gel made of a type of plastic that can bind water. Researchers...
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A large clinical trial has found that postmenopausal women with hormone receptor (HR)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)-negative breast cancer that has spread to as many as three lymph nodes and who have a 21-gene recurrence score (RS) of 25 or lower can safely skip having chemotherapy and...
MIAMI, FLORIDA – A multicenter collaboration led by researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has produced the first computational model for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma that predicts an individual’s personalized prognosis based on their tumor genomics and treatments. The prediction model...
New York, NY – In patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc), a rare connective tissue disease, interstitial lung disease contributes to 35 percent of deaths. Published recently in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the latest American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline makes a number of recommendations. One...
OSAKA, Japan & CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Takeda (TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for ICLUSIG® (ponatinib) for the treatment of adult patients with newly diagnosed Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (Ph+ ALL) in combination with chemotherapy. This...
TORONTO – Takeda Canada Inc. has entered into a contract with Canadian Blood Services (CBS) for GLASSIA® (alpha-1 proteinase inhibitor) resulting from CBS’s request for proposal for hereditary deficiency of Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency (Alpha-1). Glassia has been approved to be listed on the CBS Plasma Protein and Related Products (PPRP) formulary...
Tampere, Finland – Researchers from Tampere University, Finland, and Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey, have developed an in vitro cancer model to investigate why breast cancer spreads to the bones. Their findings hold promise for advancing the development of preclinical tools to predict breast cancer bone metastasis. Breast cancer is...
Adelaide, Australia – A new approach to treating the most malignant type of brain cancer – glioblastoma – has shown strong promise in pre-clinical settings, raising hopes of increasing current average survival rates beyond 18 months. Targeted alpha therapy (TAT) is emerging as a potential additional treatment for glioblastoma (GB),...
A combination of two targeted cancer drugs showed unprecedented, “clinically meaningful” activity in patients with highly malignant brain tumors that carried a rare genetic mutation, according to a clinical trial report by investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The drug combination, which blocked an overactive cell-growth signaling pathway, shrank tumors by...
Vascular diseases like atherosclerosis can lead to serious complications, like heart attack or stroke. But many treatments for these diseases target systemic risk factors, such as reducing blood pressure and cholesterol, rather than repairing damaged blood vessels themselves. A new targeted nanomedicine treatment developed at the University of Chicago has...