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New JAMA Article Recommends Personal Drug Importation To Help American Patients Afford Prescription Drugs

Policy Prescription

Rome, MD, MPH Author Affiliations: Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL), Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts (Lalani, Hwang, Kesselheim, Rome); Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Lalani, Hwang, Kesselheim, Rome).

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AI Tool CHIEF Paints a Landscape of a Cancer, Refining Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prognosis

PLOS: DNA Science

Researchers from Harvard Medical School describe a new ChatGPT-like model that can guide clinical decision-making to diagnose, treat, and predict survival for several types of cancer. A Brief History of Targeted Cancer Drugs In 1978, FDA approved the first targeted cancer drug, tamoxifen. Their report appears in Nature.

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FDA Approves Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) as Adjuvant Therapy for Certain Patients With Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) Following Surgery

The Pharma Data

Choueiri, director, Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and professor of drug, Harvard Medical School. With this FDA blessing, pembrolizumab may address a critical unmet treatment need and has the implicit to come a new standard of care in the adjuvant setting for meetly named cases.”.

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Insilico Medicine Identifies Therapeutic Targets for ALS With AI

Nvidia Developer: Drug Discovery

Drug discovery startup Insilico Medicine—alongside researchers from Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, the Mayo Clinic, and. The five existing FDA-approved therapies for the disease are unable to halt or reverse this loss of function, which affects more than 700,000 people around the world. “The

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First-in-human clinical trial for a vaccine to treat opioid use.

The Pharma Data

The first patients have been enrolled in a phase 1 randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial to study a therapeutic vaccine for opioid use disorder developed by researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School.

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Drug labeling authority, UDI program reviewed by Harvard-based researchers

The Pharma Data

These initiatives could support insurance coverage of previously off-label uses, prevent costly new drugs from inappropriately receiving preferential regulatory treatment that is intended for drugs with no FDA-approved alternatives, and better inform clinicians by providing evidence-based information about how drugs should be used,” they noted. .

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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

Ozonoff is also an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital. Sentinel is also developing a SHINE test to detect Lassa virus in rural clinics in Nigeria, where there are currently no FDA-approved diagnostics for the disease.

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