brain cancer

FDA Approves Incyte’s Opzelura as First Vitiligo Therapy The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Incyte’s Opzelura cream 1.5% for the topical treatment of non-segmental vitiligo in adult and paediatric patients 12 years of age and older. With this approval, Opzelura is the first and only FDA-approved...

Biogen terminates USD 217 Million ALS Pact with Karyopharm Biogen has backed out of the four-year-old partnership with Karyopharm on a drug candidate for the neurological disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, which could have cost the US biotech up to USD 217 million. The 2018 agreement that granted Biogen righ...

Össur Launches World’s Actively Powered Lower Limb Bionic Prosthesis- New Power Knee for Amputees On February 09, 2022, Össur announced the launch of the new POWER KNEE, the first actively powered microprocessor-based prosthetic knee in the world. This device is aimed at treating patients with above-knee amputat...

Noxxon continues enrolment in a glioblastoma therapy trial Noxxon Pharma continues subject enrolment in the GLORIA clinical trial of NOX-A12 in brain cancer (glioblastoma) patients. The move comes after the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) evaluated safety results from the preliminary four-week treatment with...

Over the past decades, there has been an eruption in understanding treatment strategies of gliomas with the development of clinical immunotherapy, providing exceptional success in employing checkpoint inhibitors and cancer vaccines as treatment options that have given significant momentum to the growth of the GBM m...

Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT) is one of a hopeful treatment for brain cancer. Now, researchers are also using lasers to activate cancer-destroying drugs and other groups are testing the use of electrical fields to intersect the cancer cells division. The researchers are yet to determine the effectiveness...

There has been a shocking revelation in a report published in Science Translational Medicine by Bengt Westermark, a tumour biologist at Uppsala, who reports that a cell line widely used to study brain cancer does not match the cells used to create the line nearly 50 years ago, or the tumour supposed to be its source...