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Hepatitis C Treatments: A Comprehensive Guide

Drugs.com

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there were nearly 68,000 new cases of acute hepatitis C in 2020 and over 107,000 newly reported cases of chronic hepatitis C? THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 -- Did you know the U.S. To help you.

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New cell therapy model accelerates cancer treatment development

Drug Target Review

Around 2020, Bock assumed the challenge of creating a new division at MD Anderson focused on advancing cell therapies by bridging the gap between research labs and the clinic. While therapies like CAR-T have shown great success in hematologic malignancies, solid tumours remain a challenging area for current treatments.

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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. Other changes around this time aimed at improving treatment accessibility included increased use of take-home doses and telehealth appointments.

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Wastewater pipe dig reveals 'fossil treasure trove'

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Fossils of the world's oldest known flax snails, an extinct sawshark spine, and great white shark teeth have all been found in a mound of sand excavated from beneath Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant in 2020.

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2020 OPDP Enforcement

Eye on FDA

Looking now to a review of enforcement by the Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) in 2020, we see a different picture. The collection of letters issued by OPDP during 2020 can be found here. We instead see the same pace as we have the past several years – that is anemic levels of enforcement.

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Organoids: the versatile platform for discovery and regeneration

Drug Target Review

8 With the widespread use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), organoids can now be generated from the skin or blood cells of both healthy volunteers and disease patients, opening the door to studying various diseases and creating individually customised potential treatments. MedComm (2020). 2009;459(7244):262-5. 2023;4(3):e274.

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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Broad Institute

Since their initial development, both base editing and prime editing have been used by thousands of laboratories around the world and have enabled the study and potential treatment of many genetic diseases. The Breakthrough Prize is one of the worlds most important science awards.

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