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Overactive Bladder Diagnoses Tripled, but Treatment Is Still Rare

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22, 2025 -- A sudden need to urinate is more common than previously known, but treatment is less common.Diagnoses for overactive bladder more than tripled between 2013 and 2017, after the American Urological Association (AUA). WEDNESDAY, Jan.

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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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Biotech leader champions targeted cancer treatments and diversity

Drug Target Review

As the CEO of iOnctura, an innovative oncology biopharmaceutical company she co-founded in 2017, Catherine has played a key role in advancing the development of highly targeted small molecules aimed at revolutionising cancer treatment. So, with a huge amount of courage and commitment, I co-founded iOnctura in 2017.

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Primary Aldosteronism Testing Rare in Treatment-Resistant HTN

The Pharma Data

Primary Aldosteronism Testing Rare in Treatment-Resistant HTN. 29, 2020 — Patients with apparent treatment-resistant hypertension are rarely tested for primary aldosteronism, according to a study published online Dec. Veterans Health Administration with apparent treatment-resistant hypertension from 2000 to 2017.

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

Drug Target Review

However, these treatments will eventually fail for the majority of patients, so there is a strong need for better CAR therapies. How might the CD5 knockout approach impact the treatment of other types of cancers beyond T-cell lymphoma?

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Therapeutic peptide developed for triple-negative breast cancer

Drug Target Review

These findings offer a novel strategy for developing targeted treatments for triple-negative breast cancer, which currently has no approved options. The team also observed that the drug prevented in vitro cancer stem cells from self-renewing, which is a characteristic of aggressive cancer cells that supports treatment resistance.

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Macrocyclization via Ring-Closing Metathesis in Drug Discovery & Process Chemistry

Drug Hunter

Glecaprevir, or ABT-493, was approved in combination with pibrentasvir (Mavyret) for the treatment of Hepatitis C (HCV) in 2017. RCM in the Medicinal Chemistry of Pacritinib Pacritinib, a kinase inhibitor approved in 2022 for treatment of myelofibrosis, was also synthesized with an RCM in its med.