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Diabetic eye disease: The urgent need for early, non-invasive treatments

Drug Discovery World

Dr Catherine Beech , CEO at Exonate and Dr Pete Adamson , CSO at Breye Therapeutics discuss the need for better therapies to treat diabetic retinal disease and current progress in the field. Despite affecting such a large subset of diabetic patients, treatment options are limited to repeated, invasive intravitreal injections to the eye.

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Semaglutide could also benefit patients with heart failure

Drug Discovery World

A new study indicates that anti-obesity drug semaglutide helps prevent cardiac events among overweight people who have cardiovascular disease, even if they also have heart failure. The new study found similar cardiovascular benefits for a subgroup of study participants who were also judged to have heart failure (ie.

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Donanemab significantly slowed decline in early Alzheimer’s disease trial 

Drug Discovery World

Eli Lilly has announced positive results of the TRAILBLAZER-ALZ 2 Phase III study showing that donanemab significantly slowed cognitive and functional decline in people with early symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease.

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The epigenetic edge: Harnessing precision medicine’s potential 

Drug Discovery World

Genetic variations inherited from our parents shape our response to drugs, disease susceptibility, physiology and metabolism. This genetic variability forms the basis for personalised approaches to disease prevention, treatment and overall well-being.

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Closing the translation gap with patient-derived organoids

Drug Discovery World

This advertorial appeared in DDW Volume 25 – Issue 4, Fall 2024 Read the digital issue Earlier this year, DDW hosted a webinar, ‘From patient to petri dish: Replicating disease with patient-derived organoids’, supported by HUB Organoids. The speaker was Dr Sylvia F Boj, Chief Scientific Officer of HUB Organoids.

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GSK announces positive data for gonorrhoea antibiotic

Drug Discovery World

First results from the EAGLE-1 Phase III trial for gepotidacin show that two oral doses of the antibiotic displayed superior success rates (92.6%) when compared to the combination treatment of ceftriaxone and oral azithromycin, which saw a 91.2% The imperative for innovative treatments has never been clearer. success rate.

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

Agency IQ

What we expect European regulators to do in August and September 2024 In this recurring feature, AgencyIQ, through public data and previous analysis, determines what European medicine and device regulators will likely do in the month ahead, including key deadlines, meetings, events, planned regulations, comment periods, and more.