Chronic Disease Management

ACIP Recommends Pfizer’s TBE Vaccine For Individuals Most At Risk

by Samantha McGrail

The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recently recommended Pfizer’s tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) vaccine, TicoVac, to prevent TBE in individuals one year and older. ACIP...

Moderna Expands mRNA Vaccine Pipeline for HSV, VZV, Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna recently expanded its mRNA pipeline with three new development programs, including an HSV mRNA vaccine, a varicella-zoster virus (VZV) vaccine, and a checkpoint cancer vaccine. First, Moderna...

Lilly Launches Campaign to Educate Early Breast Cancer Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Eli Lilly and Company recently launched an education campaign to educate, support, connect, and empower people diagnosed with early breast cancer (EBC) with a high risk of recurrence. The campaign,...

Gilead’s HIV-1 Drug Achieves High Rates of Virologic Suppression

by Samantha McGrail

Gilead recently announced one-year results from an ongoing Phase 2/3 CAPELLA trial evaluating its HIV-1 capsid inhibitor, lenacapavir, in individuals with multi-drug resistant HIV. The trial...

Moderna, ROVI Expand Collaboration to Boost mRNA Vaccines

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna and ROVI recently entered into a long-term collaboration to increase capacities for the compounding, aseptic filling, inspection, and manufacturing of mRNA vaccines and medicines over the next...

Merck’s Keytruda, Chemotherapy Helps High-Risk Breast Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Merck recently announced that Keytruda, combined with chemotherapy and followed by Keytruda as monotherapy, prolonged event-free survival compared to chemotherapy followed by placebo in patients with...

AstraZeneca’s Chemotherapy Treatment Improves Prostate Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca recently announced that its combination chemotherapy treatment improved radiographic progression-free survival (rPFS) compared to standard-of-care for metastatic castration-resistant...

Bristol Myers Grants $7.9M to Improve Access to Care Across US

by Samantha McGrail

Bristol Myers Squibb recently granted $7.965 million to 24 US non-profit organizations to improve access to care for medically underserved patients across oncology, cardiology, immunology, and...

Biogen, Xbrane Develop Preclinical Monoclonal Antibody, Biosimilar

by Samantha McGrail

Biogen and Xbrane Biopharma recently agreed to develop, manufacture, and commercialize a preclinical monoclonal antibody and proposed biosimilar, Xcimzane, referencing Cimzia.  Cimzia is a drug...

Gilead, ViiV Healthcare Enter $1.25B Settlement Over HIV Drug

by Samantha McGrail

ViiV Healthcare, GSK, and Shionogi recently entered a $1.25-billion settlement over the global patent infringement litigation with Gilead concerning its HIV drug combined with three HIV integrase...

Abbott Implants Dual-Chamber Leadless Pacemaker in Clinical Trial

by Samantha McGrail

Abbott recently announced the world's first implant of a dual-chamber leadless pacemaker system as part of its Aveir DR i2i pivotal clinical trial. The prospective investigational study will...

Biogen to Develop, Commercialize Genentech’s Bispecific Antibody

by Samantha McGrail

Biogen recently exercised its option to participate in the development and commercialization of Genentech’s bispecific antibody, mosunetuzumab. Mosunetuzumab is a CD20xCD3 T-cell engaging...

Pfizer Confirms Positive Date of Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer and Valneva recently announced further positive results from the Phase 2 clinical trial evaluating their Lyme disease vaccine candidate, VLA15. The trial, VLA15-221, enrolled 294 healthy adult...

FDA Approves Takeda’s Von Willebrand Disease Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently approved Takeda Pharmaceutical’sPharmaceutical’s Vonvendi for routine prophylaxis to reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in patients with severe Type 3 von Willebrand...

Personalized Immunotherapy Could Treat Metastatic Breast Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Personalized immunotherapy from an individual’s tumor-fighting immune cells could potentially treat metastatic breast cancer, according to a study from the National Cancer Institute’s...

FDA Approves Label Update for CAR-T Cell Therapy, Yescarta

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently approved an update to the prescribing information for Kite’s Yescarta to include prophylactic corticosteroids across all approved indications. The agency first approved Yescarta in...

Moderna, IAVI Dose First Patients in Trial of HIV Vaccine Antigens

by Samantha McGrail

Modern and IAVI recently dosed the first two patients in a clinical trial of experimental HIV vaccine antigens at the George Washington University (GWU) School of Medicine and Health Sciences. The...

Opioid Use Disorder Medicine Lacking for Pregnant Women in US Jails

by Samantha McGrail

Most pregnant and postpartum women with opioid use disorder (OUD) in US jails do not receive medication that is standard of care, a JAMA Network Open study found. The cross-sectional study surveyed...

Regeneron Gets FDA Review for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently accepted for review Regeneron’s biologics license application for its PD-1 inhibitor, Libtayo, in combination with chemotherapy to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer...

FDA Grants Clearance to Biotricity’s Arrhythmia Monitoring Device

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently granted 510(k) clearance to Biotricity’s Biotres Cardiac Monitoring Device for ECG and arrhythmia monitoring. Biotres Cardiac Monitoring Device offers a wearable Holter patch device...