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The future of lymphoma treatment

Drug Target Review

ARC-02 is our anti-CD79b targeting ADC in development for the treatment of relapsed/refractory (r/r) follicular lymphoma (FL), for which there are currently no approved ADCs, as well as r/r diffuse B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL). The ADC uses the same antibody and drug payload as the approved Polivy®, however, it uses Araris’ linker technology.

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Buprenorphine now replaces methadone as the most common medicine for opioid dependence’: 10-year trends in opioid agonist treatment medicines in Australia

National Drug & Alcohol Research Centre Blog

Kendal Chidwick NDARC’s Kendal Chidwick discusses the findings from a recently published study that examined how patterns of opioid agonist treatment medicines have changed over the past decade. In September 2019, a new formulation of long-acting injectable buprenorphine became available on the PBS.

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Opioid Use Disorder Treatment Modalities Available in US Jails

Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

Regardless of region, jail jurisdiction size, locality, or opioid overdose death rate, larger percentages of jail jurisdictions initiated behavioral or psychological treatment for OUD than initiated or continued MAT. Opioid Use Disorder Screening and Treatment in Local Jails, 2019. In states with 24.0 Maruschak, Todd D.

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Opioid Use Disorder Screening and Treatment in Local Jails in the US

Common Sense for Drug Policy Blog

Opioid Use Disorder Screening and Treatment in Local Jails in the US "At midyear 2019, fewer than two-thirds (63%) of local jail jurisdictions conducted opioid use disorder (OUD) screenings at intake and more than half (54%) of jail jurisdictions provided inmates medications to treat opioid withdrawal (figure 1). Maruschak, Todd D.

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Unveiling neoantigen-directed cancer treatment

Drug Target Review

This exclusive interview with Dr Sharon Benzeno, Chief Commercial Officer, Immune Medicine at Adaptive Biotechnologies, unveils some ground-breaking research on T- cell therapy for cancer , which has seen the first TCR-based therapeutic candidate progress to clinical development, offering promising advancements in innovative cancer treatments.

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1990 to 2019 Saw Increase in Global Burden of CVD

The Pharma Data

11, 2020 — From 1990 to 2019, there was an increase in the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) globally, according to a study published online Dec. The researchers found that prevalent cases of total CVD increased from 271 million in 1990 to 523 million in 2019, and the number of CVD deaths increased from 12.1 FRIDAY, Dec.

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Ninth Circuit Upholds FDA’s Authority to Regulate Stem Cell Clinic Treatments

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

California Stem Cell Treatment Center, Inc., At the clinics, Defendants offer treatments that consist of extracting fat tissue from patients and, through a multi-step process, turning that tissue into a liquefied mixture of stem cells, other cells and cell debris known as Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF). 588, 566 (2019)).