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Oral antiviral candidate Paxlovid™ reduces COVID-19 risks by 89 percent
Paxlovid™, Pfizer's investigational oral antiviral candidate, displayed an 89 percent reduction in COVID-19 risks in Phase II/III study.
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NICE recommend dapagliflozin for treating chronic kidney disease
The new draft guidance has recommended dapagliflozin as an option for treating certain people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in adults.
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Gates biomanufacturing facility announces agreement with Nkarta
The Gates Biomanufacturing Facility announced a strategic agreement with Nkarta to manufacture Nkarta's investigational cell therapy NKX101.
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Actimab-A CLAG-M combination displays 100 percent remission rate
Actinium's Actimab-A CLAG-M combination showed a 100 percent remission rate in relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukaemia patients receiving 0.75 μCi/kg in Phase I study.
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Developing and delivering live biotherapeutic products
The microbial content of the gut has a well established role in health and disease. In this article, European Pharmaceutical Review’s Hannah Balfour explores the development and formulation of live biotherapeutic products (LBPs), an emerging treatment modality that seeks to capitalise on the interaction between the microbiota and host in…
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Biktarvy® shows high efficacy against HIV in real-world setting
Gilead's Biktarvy demonstrated a consistently high efficacy of over 95 percent in analyses of the ongoing real-world cohort BICSTaR study.
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The race to get biotech innovation to market: five steps to success
Achieving prompt and profitable market access for new pharma products has never been more challenging. Next-generation drug launches are increasing in number year on year, creating strong competition, and treatments are becoming more tightly targeted, reducing the size of available markets. In addition, biologic drugs are highly complex and expensive…
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Tremfya® shows promise in Phase III psoriatic arthritis study
Tremfya inhibited radiographic progression and provided durable improvements in symptoms of axial involvement in psoriatic arthritis patients.
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AstraZeneca transfers rights for Eklira and Duaklir to Covis Pharma
AstraZeneca will transfer its global rights to their two chronic obstructive pulmonary disease drugs Eklira and Duaklir to Covis Pharma.
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Drug repurposing pilot to support not-for-profit organisations and academia
The European Medicines Agency (EMA)'s pilot project will support not-for-profit organisations and academia in gathering evidence for the use of a drug in a new indication.
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Aramchol™ reduces fibrosis progression in 24 weeks
Aramchol reduced liver fibrosis progression in 15 out of 16 patients and did not worsen non-alcoholic steatohepatitis in almost half of patients.
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BARDS: a potential in-process stability testing method
Study finds Broadband Acoustic Resonance Dissolution Spectroscopy (BARDS) to be a potentially more time-efficient and cost-effective method for solid dose stability testing.
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Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) meeting highlights, Oct 2021
EMA's drug safety committee (PRAC) assessed risks with COVID-19 vaccines and identified no risk of death with Imbruvica and ACE inhibitors.
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Formulation development of vitamin C-based effervescent blend suitable for direct compression
This article presents the findings from a study to establish optimum formulation parameters for effective effervescent vitamin C tablet production.
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Using co-processed excipient reduces PAT measurement errors, finds study
New research shows co-processed excipient is superior to non-co-processed when using near infrared (NIR) process analytical technology (PAT) to monitor direct compression tableting.
