CHMP Gives Positive Opinion on Takeda’s Qdenga The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has given its approval to Takeda GmbH’s Qdenga, a li...
Oncolytic viruses are cancer treatments that employ a natural or reprogrammed virus capable of targeting and killing malignant cells. They are a new class of cancer agents that induce tumor regression by causing immunogenic cell death, inducing preferential replication in tumor cells, and stimulating host antitumor...
Find MoreImmune checkpoint inhibitors are drugs that inhibit immune checkpoints. These drugs allow immune cells to respond more strongly to cancer by blocking them. This blocks the “off” signal, allowing T-cells to kill cancer cells. Checkpoint inhibitors can be used to treat a variety of cancers, including lung cancer (...
Find MoreMerck’s Sotatercept Clears Phase III Trial Merck’s USD 11.5 billion acquisition of Acceleron last year was based on the promise of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) candidate sotatercept, which has recently met the mark in a much-anticipated phase III trial. The STELLAR trial found that adding the activin re...
Find MorePeripheral T-cell Lymphoma (PTCL) is a diverse disorder category that accounts for 10% to 15% of non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Most PTCL subtypes, including PTCL-NOS, AITL, ALCL, enteropathy-type T-cell lymphoma, and extranodal natural killer (NK) cell/T-cell lymphoma, are aggressive (fast-growing) lymphomas. PTCLs are...
Find MoreOlympus Launched THUNDERBEAT Open Fine Jaw Type X Surgical Energy Device On September 28, 2022, Olympus Corporation (Olympus), a global MedTech company, announced the release of the THUNDERBEAT™ Open Fine Jaw Type X surgical energy devices for open surgery. The device THUNDERBEAT Open Fine Jaw Type X surg...
Find MoreZealand Pharma Announces the Positive Topline Results from its Phase III trial of Glepaglutide Zealand Pharma A/S, a biotech company specializing in peptide-based medicines, announced positive topline results from its phase III trial of glepaglutide. In the evenly randomized double-blind trial, 106 patients with...
Find MoreCutaneous T-cell lymphomas (CTCLs) constitute a group of non-Hodgkin lymphomas of the skin. CTCL has an annual age-adjusted incidence of approximately 6 cases per million people. In the United States, approximately 1,000 new cases of skin lymphoma are diagnosed each year. CTCL affects males twice as females. Moreov...
Find MoreAsahi Intecc partners with Penumbra to roll out Indigo System in Japan On September 22, 2022, Asahi Intecc, a Surgical and medical instrument manufacturing company, partnered with Penumbra, a medical device company headquartered in Alameda, California, to roll out Indigo System in Japan. After getting regulat...
Find MoreDaiichi Sankyo Receives the First Approval for its Blood Cancer Drug Ezharmia Daiichi Sankyo has received the first global approval for Ezharmia, a first-in-class dual EZH1 and EZH2 inhibitor for the treatment of patients with relapsed or refractory adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL). The Japanese Ministry of ...
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Find MoreThe American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is one of the largest and most respected conferences in the field of oncology. Held annually, this conference brings together researchers, physicians, and other healthcare professionals from around the world to discuss the latest advances in cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment.