ROYAL OAK, Mich. — IMMUNIS.AI, an immunogenomics company developing blood-based cancer surveillance technologies, today announced that results from a prostate cancer risk stratification study evaluating the company’s novel blood-based liquid biopsy platform were published in The Journal of Urology. The results validate the ability of the platform to accurately stratify...
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JERUSALEM, Israel — Immunity Pharma, a clinical-stage neurology-focused biopharmaceutical company, today announced positive top line results from the Phase 2a trial with IPL344 in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients. The study demonstrated statistically significant efficacy as measured by change in the slope decline of ALSFRS-R. The drug was well tolerated, and the...
Barcelona, Spain – Patients with metastatic or recurrent cervical cancer not amenable to curative surgery and/or radiotherapy have a poor prognosis with limited treatment options. First-line treatment in this setting consists of combination cisplatin/paclitaxel chemotherapy plus antiangiogenic agent bevacizumab. This therapeutic strategy was approved based on the results of the...
Baltimore, Maryland – People with operable non-small cell lung cancers may fare better over the next few years by receiving immunotherapy treatments before and after surgery instead of only before surgery, according to a new analysis by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators. For the study, researchers compared health outcomes among 147...
Boston, Mass. – For the first time in fifty years, results from a phase 3 randomized, placebo-controlled trial have shown an overall survival benefit from an adjuvant therapy in patients with kidney cancer. Treatment with pembrolizumab, an immunotherapy drug, after surgery significantly prolonged overall survival in patients with clear-cell renal-cell...
VANCOUVER, BC — According to the European Cancer Information System (ECIS), new cancer cases and deaths are on the rise in the EU. Sadly, this is a trend that’s happening in North America too, especially among young people. Perhaps the most concerning are the incidences of pancreatic cancer, which while...
Ottawa, Canada – Georges Wistaff calls CHEO his family’s second home. They have made more than 100 trips there over the last decade, mostly because of health issues involving their 10-year-old son, Antony. Antony was born prematurely and underwent emergency surgery soon after. That was the start of a medical...
New Haven, Conn. — The eyes have been called the window to the brain. It turns out they also serve as an immunological barrier that protects the organ from pathogens and even tumors, Yale researchers have found. In a new study, researchers showed that vaccines injected into the eyes of...
WASHINGTON, DC – Vosoritide’s first global phase 2 study showed an average increased growth rate of 1.8 cm per year in children with hypochondroplasia, a genetic cause of short stature in children, according to researchers from Children’s National Hospital. “This is the first medicine that has been developed to specifically...
An international team of scientists studying a rare genetic disease discovered that a bundle of proteins with the long-established function of keeping chromosomes together also plays an important role in regulating genes in humans. When gene regulation is disrupted in the multisystem genetic disease Cornelia deLange syndrome (CdLS), children may...