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In an effort to raise funds to pay for a lung transplant needed by Lodi resident Alicia Brogle, the Brogle family will hold a yard sale Friday through Sunday at 729 Westwood Ave. in Lodi. Brogle, 32, lives with cystic fibrosis and needs to use an oxygen machine to breath...
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for Priority Review the Biologics License Application (BLA) for garetosmab for the treatment of adults with fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). Garetosmab is a monoclonal antibody that blocks Activin A, a protein that Regeneron scientists discovered to be critical in...
Sydney, Australia – Researchers have discovered how the mechanical properties of tumours can prime cancer cells to better survive their spread to other organs. A metabolic ‘survival switch’ controlled by the stiffness of triple-negative breast tumours can significantly influence how successfully their cancerous cells spread to other organs, according to...
New Haven, CT – Gaucher disease treatment has come a long way in the past three decades. The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) in 1991. That first approval opened the door for other ERT treatments and paved the road for substrate...
SYDNEY – Kazia Therapeutics Limited (ASX: KZA; NASDAQ: KZIA), an oncology-focused drug development company, is pleased to inform stakeholders that the GBM AGILE study in glioblastoma (NCT03970447) has opened at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto, Ontario. This marks the first Canadian site to open to paxalisib, and the first...
Boston, Mass. – Positive high-level results from a global, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III trial in adults with anti-acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibody-positive (Ab+) generalised myasthenia gravis (gMG) showed that gefurulimab met its primary and all secondary endpoints. Data demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement from baseline in Myasthenia...
Gemcitabine plus cisplatin significantly improved overall survival (OS) when compared with fluorouracil plus cisplatin in treatment-naïve patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma, according to final results of a phase 3 study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology.¹ The GEM20110714 trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01528618) enrolled 362 patients who were randomly assigned 1:1...