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Topical Gene Therapy FDA-Approved for Severe Skin Disease, Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

PLOS: DNA Science

The newest FDA-approved gene therapy treats the severe, skin-peeling condition dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (DEB). The gene treatment has been a long time coming, but it differs from the handful of other approved gene therapies: it isn’t a one-and-done.

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FDA Approves Pfizer Med for Rare Form of Pediatric Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Pfizer ’s Xalkori (crizotinib) for pediatric patients one year of age and older and young adults with relapsed or refractory, systemic anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) that is anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK)-positive. Manuel Esteban/Shutterstock.

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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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Lower-Profile Web Intrasaccular Aneurysm Treatment Device Receives FDA Approval

The Pharma Data

based subsidiary of Terumo and a global neurovascular company, announced today the FDA Approval of the PMA Supplement for the WEB 17 System, a new addition to the WEB Aneurysm Embolization System for the treatment of intracranial wide neck bifurcation aneurysms. The WEB System received its first PMA approval in late 2018.

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Roche receives FDA approval for first HIV-1/HIV-2 Qualitative Test on the cobas 6800/8800 Systems in the fight against HIV/AIDS

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Detects, confirms and differentiates HIV-1 and HIV-2 infections providing clinicians with critical diagnostic data for personalised management of patients with HIV – from appropriate counseling on disease differences to targeted therapy. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated in 2018 that 1.2 Clin Infect Dis.

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UNION therapeutics A/S receives FDA approval for IND of oral next generation PDE4-inhibitor (orismilast) for investigation in plaque psoriasis

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Currently, oral treatment options for plaque psoriasis are limited, and many patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis are receiving systemic injectable therapies. 2018)2: Menter MA, Armstrong AW, Gordon KB, Wu JJ. 2018 Feb;37(2S):S48-S51. For more information please visit: www.uniontherapeutics.com. Sources 1: Li et al.

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Vorasidenib

New Drug Approvals

2] Vorasidenib was approved for medical use in the United States in August 2024. [2] 2] [3] It is the first approval by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of a systemic therapy for people with grade 2 astrocytoma or oligodendroglioma with a susceptible isocitrate dehydrogenase-1 or isocitrate dehydrogenase-2 mutation. [2]