Minimal residual disease (MRD) assessment can be used to guide treatment discontinuation in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL), according to phase 2 results published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The phase 2 CAPTIVATE trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02910583) was designed to test MRD-guided treatment discontinuation after first-line ibrutinib plus...
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GHENT, Belgium — MRM Health, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, announced today that it has received regulatory and ethics committee approval to start an observational, cross-sectional clinical trial to study the role of the small intestinal microbiome in Parkinson’s Disease (PD) and to identify PD-specific microbial and metabolic fingerprints in small...
London, UK – The research, published in Science Translational Medicine, found that messenger RNA (mRNA) could be used to correct a rare liver genetic disease known as argininosuccinic aciduria in a mouse model of the disease. Argininosuccinic aciduria is an inherited metabolic disorder that affects how the body breaks down...
FRANKFURT, Germany – Each year, several thousand women in Germany die from ovarian cancer. In many cases, the disease is only detected when it is very advanced and metastases have already formed – usually in the intestines, abdomen or lymph nodes. At such a late stage, only 20 to 30...
Atlanta, Ga. – Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Elan Corporation, plc (NYSE: ELN) today announced interim results from an ongoing, one-year longitudinal health-outcomes study in which patients reported significantly higher levels of treatment satisfaction after three infusions with TYSABRI® (natalizumab) when compared to multiple sclerosis (MS) therapies used previously. The...
EAST LANSING, Mich. – Researchers at Michigan State University have teamed up to create a new way to image immune cells in living subjects that could enable new treatment opportunities and better outcomes for patients with Type 1 diabetes. In particular, the new approach could help bolster the success of...
WEST CHESTER, Pa. & ISTANBUL – Eczacıbaşı-Monrol Nuclear Products Co. (Monrol) today announced their agreement with Molecular Targeting Technologies, Inc. (MTTI), a clinical stage biotech company focused on developing innovative therapies for rare cancers, for the supply of the medical radioisotope no-carrier-added 177Lu (n.c.a. 177Lu). Eczacıbaşı-Monrol entered the theranostic market in 2019...
MIAMI, FLORIDA – CAR-T cell therapy is a safe and effective treatment for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), even for patients regarded as high risk due to comorbidities. That’s the conclusion of a five-year analysis of results from the U.S. Lymphoma CAR-T Cell Consortium, a group of 17 academic cancer...
Malaga, Spain – The scientist of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Malaga José Luis Royo has coordinated a study that summarizes eight years of research and brings together 100 multidisciplinary specialists, identifying a mutation that alters Alzheimer’s disease progression. This work, published in Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease,...
Cologne, Germany – The Federal Joint Committee (G-BA), the highest decision-making body in the German health care system, commissioned the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) to assess a total of 10 drugs for the treatment of multiple sclerosis (MS): The immunomodulators cladribine, dimethyl fumarate, ozanimod, ponesimod,...