Contaminated drug causes vision loss for dozens of Pakistan diabetics
Dozens of diabetes patients in Pakistan suffered vision loss after being given a contaminated drug, a provincial health official said Tuesday.
Sep 26, 2023
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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins: News and Research on Antibodies, Monoclonal
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Pakistan recalls an injectable medicine causing eye infection, sight loss and orders a probe
Pakistan's health minister said Sunday that an injectable medicine that was causing a severe eye infection and sight loss in diabetic patients in the province of Punjab has been recalled and an investigation ordered while ...
Sep 24, 2023
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Combination immunotherapy shows no additional benefit for most advanced cancers, finds meta-analysis
A combination immunotherapy treatment of nivolumab plus ipilimumab was associated with no improvement in survival for advanced cancers other than melanoma, when compared to nivolumab alone, according to a recent Northwestern ...
Sep 22, 2023
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Save billions or stick with Humira? Drug brokers steer Americans to the costly choice
Tennessee last year spent $48 million on a single drug, Humira—about $62,000 for each of the 775 patients who were covered by its employee health insurance program and receiving the treatment. So when nine Humira knockoffs, ...
Sep 21, 2023
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Protect yourself and loved ones with the new RSV vaccines
National medicine regulator, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), recently approved the world's first vaccines to prevent RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, for infants and elderly adults.
Sep 14, 2023
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Regorafenib, nivolumab, chemo combo found safe and effective for various cancers, heading to phase 3 trial
Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, have concluded their phase 2 trial of chemotherapy in combination with the drugs nivolumab, and regorafenib.
Babies and moms get 'two-pronged' protection against RSV with new FDA-approved tools
Ask Danielle Palmieri when her newborn son contracted RSV, and she doesn't give a season or even a month. She knows the exact day.
Sep 7, 2023
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CDC warns of rise in RSV cases among young children, infants
Doctors are seeing a spike in severe cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) among young children in Florida and Georgia, U.S. health officials warned Tuesday.
Sep 6, 2023
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A new targeted treatment shows promise for select patients with stomach cancer
An international phase 3 clinical trial, done in participation with Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian, has found that a new targeted treatment called zolbetuximab, given in combination with a standard chemotherapy, ...
Aug 23, 2023
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Oncology drugs estimated to be $1 billion cheaper to develop through a precision approach
Research and development (R&D) costs for targeted oncology drugs are markedly lower if guided by a companion diagnostic strategy, but current biopharmaceutical business models suggest these savings will not be reflected in ...
Aug 21, 2023
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