pharmaphorum

MAY 30, 2022

The American Society of Clinical Oncology, or ASCO, conference is just around the corner, but one subgroup of cancer researchers just had their own gathering, as breast cancer researchers came together in person for the first time since the start of the pandemic at the ESMO Breast Cancer congress. pharmaphorum sat down with Sunil Verma, global head of oncology, medical, at AstraZeneca, to discuss three studies that were presented at the show, which demonstrate a few of the ways oncology is advan

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Pharma Times

MAY 30, 2022

The injection is given in combination with chemotherapy and administered once every three weeks

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pharmaphorum

MAY 30, 2022

In future, blood samples may be taken by an autonomous robot rather than a healthcare professional – if Dutch developer Vitestro can get its prototype approved for marketing. Vitestro’s blood drawing (phlebotomy) robot is designed to offer a solution to what the company says is a growing shortage of healthcare personnel, coupled with rising demand for blood tests with billions carried out every year worldwide.

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Pharma Times

MAY 30, 2022

NRG Therapeutics announces multi-million Innovate UK Award to develop treatments for Parkinson’s and motor neurone disease

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Speaker: Chris Antypas and Josh Halladay

Access to limited distribution drugs and payer contracts are key to pharmacy expansion. But how do you prepare your operations to take the next step? Meaningful data: Collect and share clinical data regarding outcomes, utilization, and more Reporting: Limited distribution models require efficient tracking and reporting systems Workflows: Align workflows with specific pharma and payer contractual requirements For in-depth, expert insights on pharmacy expansion, watch this webinar from Inovalon.

pharmaphorum

MAY 30, 2022

The World Health organisation’s latest assessment of the monkeypox outbreak is that it poses a moderate threat to public health, as cases of the infection continue to rise. In an update posted yesterday, the WHO said it had received reports of 257 confirmed cases of monkeypox from 23 countries, 106 of them from the UK and 49 from Portugal, with another 120 suspected cases being investigated.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 30, 2022

GlaxoSmithKline is reportedly close to finding a development partner for a major new investment project in the UK that will see a new bioscience cluster built near its research centre in Stevenage. The pharma group said last year it was looking for a collaborator to develop a 33-acre block of land in the Hertfordshire town into a hub for life science companies, creating up to 5,000 jobs over the next decade.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 30, 2022

Shares in Swedish biotech RhoVac were down 94% in mid-morning trading today after the company revealed a phase 2b trial of its prostate cancer vaccine RV001 showed it was no more effective than placebo. In the 180-subject BRaVac trial, treatment with RV001 (onilcamotide) was unable to top placebo in preventing disease progression among patients who had curative therapy for localised prostate cancer but subsequently saw a rise in levels of PSA, a biomarker for recurrence.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 30, 2022

It has been eight years since Sanofi licensed rights to an over-the-counter version of erectile dysfunction (ED) drug Cialis from Eli Lilly, and the FDA has just thrown a spanner into its plans to bring it to market in the US. Sanofi said this morning that the US regulator has imposed a clinical hold on its Actual Use Trial (AUT) of the OTC formulation over “matters surrounding the protocol design.” According to the French pharma group the study has not yet recruited any patients, an

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pharmaphorum

MAY 30, 2022

For decades, RAS has existed as an elusive therapeutic target, and drugging this high-value oncogene was deemed impossible. Despite this, the first-ever FDA-approved KRAS G12C inhibitor has demonstrated that RAS is in fact druggable and that drugging this protein unlocks a world of successful therapeutic interventions. Now, the future looks bright for treating patients with cancers harboring the RAS mutation.

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