Chronic Disease Management

Pfizer’s Ulcerative Colitis Drug Helps Patients in Phase 3 Study

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer recently announced that its selective sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator to treat moderate to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) significantly improved the primary endpoint of...

Vivalink’s Biometrics Data Platform Monitors Oncology Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Digital healthcare solutions company, Vivalink, will provide its Biometric Data Platform to help detect neutropenic fever events in oncology patients.   Vivalink is at the forefront of...

Moderna Will Expand mRNA Vaccine Pipeline Through 2 New Programs

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna will expand its mRNA vaccine pipeline through two new development programs, including a combination respiratory vaccine candidate and a program against four endemic human coronaviruses...

Sandoz Acquires Drug Delivery Device Company to Boost Pipeline

by Samantha McGrail

Sandoz, a Novartis division, recently acquired a UK-based medical and drug delivery device company, Coalesce Product Development Limited.   Through the terms of the agreement, Sandoz...

Keytruda Boosts Survival Rate for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Merck and the European Thoracic Oncology Platform (ETOP) recently announced that Keytruda significantly improved disease-free survival (DFS) in patients with stage IB to IIA non-small cell lung cancer...

AstraZeneca Launches R&D Challenge to Advance Drug Discovery

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca recently launched a global research and development Postdoctoral Challenge to help advance drug discovery for some of the world’s most complex diseases.  The challenge invites...

Boehringer Ingelheim Halts Chronic Kidney Disease Trial

by Samantha McGrail

Boehringer Ingelheim recently announced that the Phase 3 clinical trial studying empagliflozin in adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD) will stop early based on a recommendation from the trial's...

Moderna Doses First Patient in HIV mRNA Vaccine Clinical Trial

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna recently dosed the first participant in an HIV trimer mRNA vaccine (mRNA-1574) clinical trial.   The open-label Phase 1 trial will evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of...

Civica to Manufacture Lower-Priced Insulin for Diabetes Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Civica recently announced plans to manufacture and distribute insulin to diabetes patients at significantly lower prices than insulins currently on the market.  Civica, CivicaScript, and the...

FDA Approves Boehringer Ingelheim’s Heart Failure Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently approved Boehringer Ingelheim's Jardiance to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death and hospitalization in heart failure in adults. The agency based its approval on the safety and...

Moderna Launches Public Health Strategy to Advance mRNA Vaccines

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna recently announced its global public health strategy through four initiatives to advance mRNA vaccines for infectious diseases. In the first strategy, Moderna will expand its global public...

Gilead’s Trodelvy Helps HR/HER2 Metastatic Breast Cancer Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Gilead recently announced that the Phase 3 clinical trial of Trodelvy in patients with HR/HER2-metastatic breast cancer met its primary endpoint. The Phase 3 TROPiCS-02 study evaluated Trodelvy versus...

FDA Issues 3 Cancer Clinical Trial Final Guidance Documents

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently issued three final guidance documents to the industry regarding cancer clinical trials that parallel the goals of President Biden’s effort to renew and rebuild upon his 2016 Cancer...

FDA Rejects Gilead’s Drug Application for HIV-1 Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently issued a complete response letter (CRL) to Gilead rejecting its New Drug Application (NDA) for HIV-1 treatment, lenacapavir. The agency cited Chemistry Manufacturing and Controls (CMC)...

UC Berkeley Loses CRISPR Gene-Editing Patent Appeal

by Samantha McGrail

The US Patent and Trademark Office (PTAB) recently ruled that CRISPR gene-editing technology belongs to the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, according to multiple news sources. After an...

AstraZeneca, Alexion, Neurimmune to Develop Rare Disease Antibody

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca Rare Disease and Alexion group recently closed a global collaboration and license agreement with Neurimmune AG for the investigational human monoclonal antibody, NI006. NI006 is a...

FDA Accepts Bristol Myers’s BLA for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Drug

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently accepted Bristol Myers Squibb’s supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for its non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) drug, Opdivo, plus chemotherapy. The agency based its...

FDA Accepts Application for Pfizer’s Biosimilar to Humira

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently accepted for review the Prior Approval Supplement (PAS) to the Biologics License Application (BLA) for Pfizer’s interchangeable biosimilar to Humira, Abrilada. Abrilada is a...

Nearly Half of All Medicare Drug Prices Increased From 2019-2020

by Samantha McGrail

Half of all Medicare Part D covered drugs and nearly half of all Medicare Part B covered drugs (48%) had price increases greater than inflation between July 2019 and July 2020, according to...

CHMP Recommends Pfizer, Biohaven’s Generic Drug for Migraine Attacks

by Samantha McGrail

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recently adopted a positive opinion for Pfizer and Biohaven’s generic drug to treat migraine...