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Cancer vaccine shows sustained improvement in survival rates

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Professor Charles Swanton, Cancer Research UK’s chief clinician, said the melanoma trial results were “extremely impressive”, adding: “The new vaccine approach is another piece of the puzzle that will allow more patients to be cured, hopefully, or fewer patients to suffer disease relapse. The follow-up of the Phase IIb study took place 34.9

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Day Zero Antivirals for Future Pandemics

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Brian Wang (co-founder of the nonprofit Panoplia Laboratories ) outlines his approach to making broad-spectrum antivirals. After the outbreak ended, it took another three years for the first Ebola vaccine by Merck to be approved. After the outbreak ended, it took another three years for the first Ebola vaccine by Merck to be approved.

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FDA Approves Veklury (remdesivir) for the Treatment of COVID-19

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FDA Approves Veklury (remdesivir) for the Treatment of COVID-19. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 requiring hospitalization. The speed and rigor with which Veklury has been developed and approved in the U.S.

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FDA Approves Zokinvy (lonafarnib) for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Processing-Deficient Progeroid Laminopathies

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FDA Approves Zokinvy (lonafarnib) for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome and Processing-Deficient Progeroid Laminopathies. The increase in survival observed with Zokinvy was derived from two open-label clinical trials (N=62) conducted at Boston Children’s Hospital. LABORATORY ABNORMALITIES. PALO ALTO, Calif.,

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Regeneron’s COVID-19 Outpatient Trial Prospectively Demonstrates that REGN-COV2 Antibody Cocktail Significantly Reduced Virus Levels and Need for Further Medical Attention

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Today’s data, involving an additional 524 patients from the ongoing Phase 2/3 trial, provides definitive final virology results and meets the clinical endpoint of reducing medical visits. In the overall patient group with detectable virus at baseline, the average daily reduction in viral load through day 7 was a 0.36

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The Pharma Data - Untitled Article

The Pharma Data

For laboratory workers: TBE vaccination is recommended for those with a potential exposure to the TBE virus (TBEV). Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved TicoVac™ for active immunization to prevent TBE in individuals 1 year of age and older. 1 TicoVac™ is the only FDA-approved vaccine to help protect U.S.

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Regeneron Announces Encouraging Initial Data from COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Trial in Hospitalized Patients on Low-flow Oxygen

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As in earlier outpatient trial, immune status when patients entered the trial was a strong predictor of viral load and clinical outcomes. The primary clinical objective of this initial analysis was to determine if there was sufficient efficacy in these patients to warrant continuing the trial (i.e., futility analysis).