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Behind the new kind of cell therapy that just won FDA approval

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

One expert views Amtagvi’s approval as a catalyst for further investment in TIL therapies, akin to how Kymriah’s 2017 clearance buoyed CAR-T treatment.

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Impulse Dynamics Announces FDA Approval for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

The Pharma Data

This technology has received a lot of attention in our facility, and, likely, many of the patients who need and then receive CCM therapy will ultimately require MRI procedures,” said Dr. Robert W. CCM therapy is the first approach designed to optimize heart contraction, allowing more oxygen-rich blood to reach the body.

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Roche announces FDA approval of FoundationOne Liquid CDx, a comprehensive pan-tumour liquid biopsy test

The Pharma Data

Roche is committed to improve patient outcomes by providing multiple testing options that support decision-making during all lines of therapy. The test is FDA-approved to report short variants in 311 genes including rearrangements and copy number losses in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.

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A research team searches for every gene that helps tumors evade immunotherapy

Broad Institute

But immunotherapy was not yet widely used and had not been applied clinically to Merkel cell carcinoma, so she received traditional chemotherapy and radiation therapy, suffering life-threatening complications along the way. His mother had a presentation of the disease that suggested her immune system was already on the job.

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FDA approves GlaxoSmithKline’s Trelegy for treating asthma

The Pharma Data

Today’s approval is an important advance for these patients as it allows them to benefit from triple therapy by using one inhaler, once a day.”. Trelegy is a combination of three molecules in a single inhaler that needs to be taken once per day.

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Advancing CAR-T therapy: how CD5 modulation is shaping cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

What potential advantages does the CD5 modulation strategy offer over traditional CAR-T therapies? MR : Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is very effective in treating patients with B-cell lymphoma, leukemia, and multiple myeloma, where we have six FDA-approved drugs.

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Biogen’s Statement on the Final National Coverage Determination for Amyloid-Beta Targeting Therapies for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

The Pharma Data

This unprecedented CMS decision effectively denies all Medicare beneficiaries access to ADUHELM ® (aducanumab-avwa), the first and only FDA-approved therapy in a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs. It may also limit coverage for any future approved treatment in the class. About Biogen.