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How pharmacists can counsel patients on a bad reaction to a new medication

The Checkup by Singlecare

The first step in identifying or managing a medication reaction is knowing what you’re dealing with. Drug reactions may be immunologic or non-immunologic. Meaning, they may be caused by the immune system or other factors. . Immunologic reactions. Nonimmunologic reactions. Most common culprits of reactions.

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FDA approves first gene therapy for high-risk early bladder cancer

European Pharmaceutical Review

The failure to achieve a complete response (CR), or the disappearance of all signs of cancer as seen on cystoscopy, biopsied tissue, and urine, is associated with an increased risk of death or a disease-worsening event. Without treatment, the cancer can invade, damage tissues and organs, and spread through the body.

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Health Canada grants expanded authorisation for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

According to data from Phase III trials, the booster dose elicited greater immune responses to levels in line with or over those linked to protection against Covid-19. Additionally, data from these trials showed that local and systemic reactions following the booster dosing lasted for a median duration of nearly two days.

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Europe approves Roche’s Tecentriq liver cancer combination

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Grade 3–4 adverse events occurred in 57% of people receiving Tecentriq and Avastin and 55% of people receiving sorafenib. The most frequent serious adverse reactions for the combination, occurring in 2% or more of patients, were bleeding in the gastrointestinal tract and fever.

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Novel injectable bispecific antibody epcoritamab approved in EU and UK for advanced lymphoma

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

It is designed to simultaneously bind to both the cluster of differentiation (CD)3 proteins on immune T cells and the CD20 proteins on cancerous B cells and activate the T cell to destroy the B cell. Four patients (2.4%) experienced a fatal adverse reaction – ICANS in one patient (0.6%) and pneumonia in three patients (1.8%).

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Should You Take Paxlovid If You Catch COVID?

The People's Pharmacy

That’s because 99% of people shopping, traveling and attending events are no longer wearing masks. Diarrhea and muscle pain are also possible adverse reactions. It appears that most people have put COVID out of mind. DONE with COVID seems to be the overwhelming sentiment.

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FDA slaps hold on trials of Gilead’s CD47 drug magrolimab

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The regulatory move applies only to trials of magrolimab given alongside Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Vidaza (azacitidine), and stems from an “imbalance” in investigator-reported serious adverse events between study arms, said the drugmaker.

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