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Otsuka’s startup bet pays off with kidney disease drug results

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A medicine the pharma acquired in a $430 million buyout of Visterra in 2018 succeeded in a Phase 3 trial in IgA nephropathy, a crowded corner of drug research.

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An Evolving Regulatory Environment for Rare and Orphan Diseases

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A rare, or orphan, disease by definition affects a small percentage of the population — fewer than 200,000 people in the U.S. But the numbers add up, and taken together, rare diseases impact an estimated 30 million Americans. Before 1983, only 38 orphan drugs had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

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Deliberate Dysentery

Codon

Today, refined versions of these human challenge studies have become standard practice in testing vaccines for vector-borne diseases (e.g., yellow fever, malaria, and dengue), evaluating new drugs or treatments, and studying pathogenesis, the process by which a disease develops. Why are challenge trials becoming more popular?

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Distinguishing the Roles of Preclinical vs. Clinical CROs in Clinical Research

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Distinguishing the Roles of Preclinical vs. Clinical CROs in Clinical Research Randomized clinical trials are the gold-standard of evidence-based medicine, representing the culmination of the long, arduous drug development pipeline. What is a Pre-Clinical CRO? The global preclinical CRO market was estimated to be valued at US$5.7

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Possible adulticidal drugs for Onchocerca volvulus

Drug Target Review

Some report that they believe that if they don’t take the medication, they may develop onchocerciasis-related severe skin diseases and may go blind (river blindness) and would prefer a treatment that does not repeat every year. Need for adulticidal drugs More than 99 percent of countries worldwide has been affected by this disease.

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Article EMA Thank You What we expect European regulators to do in August and September 2024

Agency IQ

For example, on July 25, the Hungarian presidency hosted an informal meeting of health ministers to discuss health issues, such as mitigating the effect of cardiovascular diseases and implementing the European Health Data Space (EHDS).

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World Malaria Day 2021

The Pharma Data

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of robust health systems to respond to disease outbreaks and to control other deadly diseases such as malaria. In 2020, we discovered another novel malaria therapy, INE963, which has an entirely new mechanism of action and is expected to begin clinical trials in 2021.