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Janssen leads effort to cut waste in digital health devices

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” The programme has been set up to develop four devices – an e-paper label, smart wearable sensor, smart pill box, and endo-cutter used in surgical procedures – with funding from the EU’s Horizon Europe programme and support from the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Forum.

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CD19 CAR-T agents to boost blood cancer market

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Breyanzi is approved for DLBCL, and a label expansion is anticipated for expansions into marginal zone lymphoma (MZL) and mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) in 2026 and 2028, respectively. This allows for a large total eligible patient population despite capturing less patient share relative to other CD19 CAR-T agents.

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WuXi STA breaks ground on new Delaware manufacturing facility

European Pharmaceutical Review

The second facility for WuXi STA in the US, Phase I of the new campus will provide formulation development, clinical and commercial drug product manufacturing services for a variety of oral and injectable dosage forms, as well as packaging, labelling, storage and distribution services for clinical trial materials and commercial drug products.

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AZ, Amgen get speedy FDA review for asthma drug tezepelumab

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If approved, TSLP inhibitor tezepelumab could reach the market with a broader label than currently-used asthma antibodies, which are approved to treat patient with severe asthma characterised by high levels of eosinophils – a type of white blood cell.

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Brazilian federal court denies semaglutide patent extension

Pharmaceutical Technology

The 5th Panel of the Federal Court of the 1st Region (Tribunal Regional Federal da 1ª Região, TRF-1) upheld the existing expiry dates of two patents—one for semaglutide itself (2026), and the other for the delivery mechanism for the oral formulation of the drug, Rybelsus (2031). None of the three are currently publicly reimbursed.

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Entrance of novel therapies will drive Niemann-Pick type C disease market growth

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There are two branded miglustat therapies available across the 3MM, with the US market having Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J, US) Zavesca and also generic miglustat available, but neither of these are approved for the treatment of NPC, so physicians prescribe this therapy off-label.

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Calliditas eyes 2022 approval in EU for rare kidney disease drug Nefecon

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At the moment, IgAN is controlled using blood pressure medication to limit damage to the kidney, with immunosuppressants such as corticosteroids used off-label in some cases to suppress the autoimmune response. It is usually diagnosed after patients see blood in their urine and undergo a kidney biopsy.