Cancer

Can-Fite Receives Milestone Payment from Korean Distribution Partner CKD Pharmaceuticals Can-Fite BioPharma Ltd., A Leading Biotechnology Company in the pharmaceutical industry advancing a pipeline of proprietary drugs that address various major indications related to liver, inflammatory diseases, and cancer, has an...

GlaxoSmithKline taps Baltimore’s Insilico for AI-based drug discovery GlaxoSmithKline and Insilico Medicine are partnering to explore how the latter’s artificial intelligence technology can aid in the drug discovery process. The duo kept mum on the details but said the agreement comes after Baltimore-based Insilico ...

Natural killer cells are a type of lymphocytes and are key components of the innate immune system. They are highly specific predators that play a major role in the host rejection of both tumors and virally infected cells. NK cells are derived from the common lymphoid progenitor cells (lymphoblasts), which also gener...

Almost 6,000 new cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia, or ALL, are expected to be diagnosed this year in the United States. Up to 30 percent of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia or ALL patients have Philadelphia chromosome, where two segments of chromosomes have aberrantly fused together. Adult ALL patients often ...

In the quest for personalized therapies, most research has focused on how an individual’s genome controls their body’s responses to drugs. However, there is increasing evidence that a person’s unique microbiome — the population of bacteria and other microbes that live in their body — can be key to determining whethe...

Merck's Remicade discounting put squeeze on biosims—and broke U.K. law, officials say Under biosimilar assault in Europe, Merck rolled out cut-rate deals on Remicade to defend its brand from cheaper options, then-brand-new to the market. Now, the U.K.’s competition authority claims the pharma giant “broke competitio...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to pembrolizumab (KEYTRUDA, Merck & Co.) for adult and pediatric patients with unresectable or metastatic, microsatellite instability-high (MSI-H) or mismatch repair deficient (dMMR) solid tumors that have progressed following prior treatment and...

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FDA Approves Alunbrig (brigatinib) for Rare Lung Cancer Takeda Pharmaceuticals announced the FDA approved Alunbrig (brigatinib) to treat patients with anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive (ALK+) metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have progressed on or are intolerant to crizotinib. Brigatinib is a kinas...

Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) are severe side effects of cancer treatment which makes a patient uncomfortable and has to be dealt properly as many patients delay their chemotherapy cycles/ refuse further treatment due to fear of future nausea and vomiting. It is classified as Anticipatory, Acute, D...