The news that changed the course of Ollie’s life came from a doctor when he was just 9 days old. It had been a blurry summer of protests and pandemic, and Ollie’s mother, Elaine Hurst, had looked forward to the newborn “bubble.” Their family also was regrouping after relocating from...
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BEDMINSTER, N.J. – Kyowa Kirin, Inc., an affiliate of Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd. (Kyowa Kirin, TSE: 4151) a global specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced new data from the MAVORIC trial evaluating the response to treatment with POTELIGEO® (mogamulizumab-kpkc) in adults with mycosis fungoides (MF) or Sézary syndrome (SS) based on the extent...
INDIANAPOLIS — Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine are using a novel approach to hopefully develop a new therapy for glaucoma, a complex disease that eventually leads to blindness, thanks to a new five-year, $2 million R01 grant from the National Eye Institute. “Glaucoma is a silent, underdiagnosed, costly...
Tempe, AZ – Parkinson’s disease, the second most common type of progressive dementia after Alzheimer’s disease, affects nearly 1 million people in the U.S. and an estimated 10 million individuals worldwide. Each year, close to 90,000 new cases of Parkinson’s disease are diagnosed in the U.S. In a new study, Jeffrey...
Bochum, Germany – In order to infect an organ, viruses need the help of the host cells. “An effective approach is therefore to identify targets in the host that can be manipulated by drugs so that they no longer perform this helper function,” explains Mara Klöhn. The researchers became aware...
Cambridge, England – Latest analysis of the results from the DUO-E Phase III trial showed Imfinzi (durvalumab) plus platinum-based chemotherapy followed by Imfinzi plus Lynparza (olaparib) (Lynparza and Imfinzi arm) demonstrated an improvement in multiple key secondary efficacy endpoints, particularly in patients with mismatch repair proficient (pMMR) advanced or recurrent...
Norman, Oklahoma – Cancer cachexia is a debilitating muscle-wasting condition that almost always occurs in people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The research, led by Min Li, Ph.D., a professor in the OU College of Medicine, is published in the journal Cancer Cell. The study is a collaboration with researchers from...
Pittsburgh, PA – New research from the University of Pittsburgh explains why metastatic uveal melanoma is resistant to conventional immunotherapies and how adoptive therapy, which involves growing a patient’s T cells outside the body before reinfusing them, can successfully treat this rare and aggressive cancer. In a paper published today...
Cleveland, Ohio – Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic have successfully developed a therapeutic peptide that blocks aggressive cancer cells from multiplying rapidly. The results highlight a potential new strategy for developing targeted treatments for triple-negative breast cancer, which currently has no approved options. Targeted drugs attack cancer cell functions directly,...
Adelaide, Australia – The mechanisms by which antidepressants and other emotion-focused medications work could be reconsidered due to an important new breakthrough in the understanding of how the gut communicates with the brain. New research led by Flinders University has uncovered major developments in understanding how the gut communicates with...