Washington DC – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning against the purchase and use of blood glucose management product that contain glyburide and metformin according to laboratory tests. According to an FDA statement last week, Dr. Ergin’s SugarMD Advanced Glucose Support should be avoided for its...
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New York, NY – An iron-binding drug that is already approved for treatment of other diseases could provide a novel way to attack ovarian tumors, according to a new study led by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers. The preclinical study, which combined the analysis of human ovarian tumors and animal models...
Creating a strategy to discontinue eculizumab in patients with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is reasonable and safe and improves quality of life, according to research in Blood. The strategy should be based on complement genetics. Eculizumab has drastically improved outcomes for patients with aHUS. There’s no clearly defined optimal duration...
ROCKVILLE, Md. and SHANGHAI — I-Mab (Nasdaq: IMAB) (the “Company”), a global biotechnology company focused on bringing highly differentiated medicines to patients around the world through the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel immunotherapies and biologics, and HI-Bio, a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing targeted therapies for patients with severe immune-mediated...
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — Fennec Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ:FENC; TSX: FRX), a specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced the planned initiation of an investigator-sponsored study (IST) by City of Hope, a U.S. cancer research and treatment organization, to evaluate PEDMARK® (sodium thiosulfate injection) for the prevention of cisplatin-induced ototoxicity (CIO) in adult...
BARCELONA, Spain — Ferrer, a B Corp-certified international pharmaceutical company, has announced that FNP-223, a novel therapy in-licensed from Asceneuron and aimed at slowing the development of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), has received Fast Track designation from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA). FNP-223, a new molecular entity in...
PARSIPPANY, N.J. — Ferring Pharmaceuticals announced today it is presenting the methodology for the ADSTILADRIN in BLadder cancEr (ABLE-41) Real World Evidence (RWE) study at the 20th Annual American Society of Clinical Oncologists Genitourinary Cancers Symposium (ASCO GU). ABLE-41 (NCT06026332) is an ongoing Phase 4 observational study evaluating the effectiveness,...
Hong Kong – A new study finds that very few patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are able to achieve normal blood glucose levels through weight loss alone. A team led by Andrea Luk of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, reported these findings in the open access journal PLOS Medicine....
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — FibroGen, Inc. announced graduation and completion of the pamrevlumab experimental arm in the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network’s (PanCAN) Precision PromiseSM Phase 2/3 adaptive platform trial, which evaluates pamrevlumab in combination with the chemotherapy treatments gemcitabine and nab-paclitaxel for patients with metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (mPDAC). Topline...