ATLANTA — Purple Pansies, a pancreatic cancer nonprofit organization, recently held its 12th annual Pillars of Hope Gala, presented by Kroger, raising more than $1 million in one evening to help fund pancreatic cancer research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope. The gala...
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A new diagnostic technique which may greatly simplify the detection of Alzheimer’s disease has been discovered by researchers at McGill University and the affiliated Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research at Montreal’s Jewish General Hospital (JGH). Their results were published June 8 in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. There is...
Watch Conner Hicks coach basketball at Midlakes Middle School in Clifton Springs, New York, and you’ll see a young man with a passion for the game. Talk to the players on his team and you’ll hear about a dedicated and enthusiastic role model. What you probably won’t notice is the...
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG – Antengene Corporation Limited (“Antengene”, SEHK: 6996.HK), a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing global first-in-class and/or best-in-class therapeutics in hematology and oncology, today announced the dosing of the first patient in China in a Phase I/II trial (the HATCH trial) of eltanexor (ATG-016), a next-generation...
SHANGHAI and HONG KONG – Antengene’s Partner, Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: KPTI), announced updated data of eltanexor for the treatment of patients with hypomethylating agent (HMA) refractory myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) at the 2021 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting. This Phase I/II study evaluated single-agent eltanexor in patients with higher-risk...
Anti-rheumatic drugs used for rheumatoid arthritis might prevent the development of autoimmune thyroid disease, according to a new observational study by researchers from Karolinska Institutet published in the Journal of Internal Medicine. Solna, Sweden – It is well known that patients with rheumatoid arthritis are at increased risk of...
HAYWARD, Calif. – Arcus Biosciences, Inc. (NYSE:RCUS), an oncology-focused biopharmaceutical company working to create best-in-class cancer therapies, announced that, at the first interim analysis of the three-arm randomized Phase 2 ARC-7 study, both arms with domvanalimab-based combinations showed encouraging clinical activity (measured by overall response rate; ORR) when given as...
Los Angeles, California. Treatment with datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd), a novel Trop-2 directed antibody-drug conjugate, was found to significantly improve progression-free survival in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, an improvement that was primarily driven by patients with non-squamous tumors. These results from the TROPION-Lung01 Phase III trial, which compared the standard...
A new study showed a reduced risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with viral hepatitis who used H1-antihistamines (AHs), compared with those who did not. The results were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. The researchers noted that, although H1-AHs are most commonly used to treat allergic reactions...
Copenhagen, Denmark – 92.8% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) suffer anxiety and depression which significantly affects both their physical and emotional quality of life (QoL), according to the results of a new study presented today at EULAR 2009, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism in...