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Impulse Dynamics Announces FDA Approval for Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Biederman, Director of Cardiovascular Imaging and Cardiac MRI at Allegheny General Hospital/Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh and an author on the groundbreaking 2017 MagnaSafe trial published in NEJM. Typically, MRI is preferred by imaging specialists because it’s the safest alternative for most patients.

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

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The test is FDA-approved to report short variants in 311 genes including rearrangements and copy number losses in BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes. The results are delivered in an integrated report that identifies alterations matched to FDA-approved therapies.

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

Broad Institute

By then, a few cancer immunotherapies had entered clinical trials and only a handful had been approved by the FDA. As a first step, Manguso set his sights on treatments called PD-1 checkpoint inhibitors, which at the time had shown tremendous promise in clinical trials and would receive their first FDA approval in 2014.

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First trial participant gets GSK's 5-in-1 meningitis jab

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cases per 100,000 population in 2017. Invasive Meningococcal Disease (IMD) is uncommon, with country-specific reported cases ranging from 0.1

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Importance of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Clinical Trials

Vial

PROs in clinical trials are important as they capture the patient’s perspective and ensure that the impact of an intervention is comprehensively evaluated. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) increasingly look to patients to understand how they describe their health status. What are PROs in clinical trials?

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Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Clinical Trials: Challenges and Opportunities

Vial

In 2017, the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first gene therapy for cancer and for inherited diseases, the first multiplex NGS panel for companion diagnostics (CDx), and the first drug targeting a genetic signature though not a disease. Fountzilas et al.

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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

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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.