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FDA Approves Updated Indication for Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) for Treatment.

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10), as determined by an FDA-approved test, or in patients who were not eligible for any platinum-containing chemotherapy regardless of PD-L1 status. This indication was approved under accelerated approval based on tumor response rate and duration of response.

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Q&A: How a partnership between physicians and researchers aims to make cancer drugs safer

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Kerry Reynolds: The first immune checkpoint inhibitor was FDA-approved in 2011 to treat melanoma, with nearly a dozen more ICIs approved for various cancers since then. We can’t just empirically be pulling treatments — they need to be evidence-based from randomized clinical trials. We also need better diagnostics.

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FDA Action Alert: Blueprint, Liquidia, Revance, Rhythm and Merck

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The FDA approved it under the brand name Gavreto on September 4. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) had instituted inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. The data was based on the Phase III KEYNOTE-355 trial. The drug was approved for that indication on November 13. On October 14, Liquidia announced the U.S.

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FDA Approves

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious BRCA -mutated ( BRCA m) metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC). Patients should be selected for therapy based on an FDA-approved companion diagnostic for LYNPARZA.

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FDA Approves Expanded Indication for Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in Locally Advanced Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (cSCC)

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an expanded label for KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, as monotherapy for the treatment of patients with locally advanced cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) that is not curable by surgery or radiation. Merck has the industry’s largest immuno-oncology clinical research program.

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New Data Show Treatment with Lilly’s Neutralizing Antibodies Bamlanivimab (LY-CoV555) and Etesevimab (LY-CoV016) Together Reduced Risk of COVID-19 Hospitalizations and Death by 70 Percent

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Lilly’s chief scientific officer and president of Lilly Research Laboratories. In the trial, the safety profile of bamlanivimab and etesevimab together was consistent with observations from other Phase 1, Phase 2 and Phase 3 trials evaluating these antibodies. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. have reached record highs.

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Codon Digest: Injected Gene Editors

Codon

A giant dataset about the rat brain, and how neurons connect to each other, was collected and pooled together from 20 different research laboratories. ” Clinical trials are underway. Read “Musk's brain implant company in search of human trials partner.” Nature Neuroscience. Read You love to see it!

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