Chronic Disease Management

J&J’s Early-Stage Compound Shows Promise Against Dengue Virus

by Samantha McGrail

Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson recently announced that an early-stage compound with a novel mechanism of action could potentially treat all dengue virus...

FDA Grants Designation For Daiichi Sankyo’s Breast Cancer Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently granted Daiichi Sankyo’s Enhertu breakthrough therapy designation in the US to treat adult patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer.  Enhertu is an...

ViiV Healthcare Submits FDA Application for HIV Regimen

by Samantha McGrail

ViiV Healthcare recently announced it made a regulatory submission to FDA for approval of a new dispersible tablet regimen for children living with HIV. The tablet formulation, Triumeq, includes...

FDA Approves Kite’s CAR T-Cell Therapy For Leukemia

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently approved Kite’s chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy, Tecartus, to treat adult patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia...

Johnson & Johnson Launches Phase 3 Trial of RSV Vaccine in Adults

by Samantha McGrail

Johnson & Johnson recently initiated a Phase 3 clinical trial to study its RSV vaccine's efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity against lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) in adults. The...

FDA Approves Amgen’s Repatha for Autosomal Dominant Disease

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently approved Amgen’s Repatha to treat pediatric patients ten and older with autosomal dominant disease, heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (HeFH), to reduce low-density...

Francis Collins Resigns as Director of the NIH After 12 Years

by Samantha McGrail

Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, will be stepping down as director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by the end of 2021. Collins is the longest-serving presidentially appointed NIH director,...

J&J’s Xarelto Evokes Fewer Blood Clots in Patients Than Aspirin

by Samantha McGrail

Johnson & Johnson recently announced that Xarelto elicited fewer blood clots and clinical events strongly associated with blood clots in pediatric patients compared to treatment with aspirin. The...

Eli Lilly and Company to Drop Insulin Costs 40% in the US

by Samantha McGrail

Eli Lilly and Company recently announced it will lower the list price of Insulin Lispro Injection in the US by another 40 percent. Effective January 1, 2022, the new list price will be $82.41 for...

FDA Approves Abbott’s Epic Plus for Aortic Valve Disease

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently approved Abbott’s Epic Plus and Epic Plus Supra Stented Tissue Value to improve therapy options for individuals with mitral or aortic valve disease. The next-generation devices...

AstraZeneca Invests in VaxEquity for saRNA Therapeutics Platform

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca and VaxEquity recently collaborated to discover, develop, and commercialize a self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) therapeutics platform.  The long-term research collaboration aims to optimize...

Roche’s Tecentriq Benefits Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Roche recently announced that Tecentriq elicited disease-free survival in patients with Stage II-IIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Data from the IMpower010 trial, published in The Lancet, found...

SAS, UNC-Chapel Hill to Transform Antiviral Drug Development

by Samantha McGrail

SAS and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-Chapel Hill) recently partnered to transform the antiviral drug development process and prevent infectious disease threats from turning into...

AbbVie Helps to Advance Gene Therapy for Chronic Retinal Diseases

by Samantha McGrail

AbbVie and Regenxbio recently partnered to develop and commercialize RGX-314, a potential one-time gene therapy to treat various chronic retinal diseases.  Researchers are currently evaluating...

FDA Approves First Biosimilar to Treat Macular Degeneration

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently approved Samsung Bioepis and Biogen’s Byooviz as the first biosimilar to Lucentis to treat several eye diseases and conditions.  Byooviz is approved to treat neovascular (wet)...

Thermo Fisher Launches Enzyme Analyzers for Assay Applications

by Samantha McGrail

Thermo Fisher Scientific recently launched single, fully-automated enzyme analyzers designed specifically for enzyme assay applications. The Thermo Scientific Gallery Enzyme Master and Thermo...

J&J’s Ebola Vaccine Generates Robust Antibody Responses

by Samantha McGrail

Johnson & Johnson recently announced that its Ebola vaccine regimen, Zabdeno and Mvabea, generated robust antibody immune responses in children and adults.  The Phase 3 EBOVAC-Salone clinical...

FDA Grants Breakthrough Designation for Eli Lilly’s Diabetes Drug

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently granted Breakthrough Designation for Eli Lilly & Company and Boehringer Ingelheim’s diabetes drug, Jardiance, as an investigational treatment for adults with heart failure with...

Providers Hopeful of Immunotherapy to Treat Early-Stage Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Many experts expect immunotherapy to positively impact the treatment landscape for patients with earlier-stage cancers in the neoadjuvant, adjuvant, and perioperative settings, according to a new...

FDA Accepts Novartis BLA for Monoclonal Antibody in ESCC

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently accepted Novartis’ Biologics License Application for its anti-PD-1 immune monoclonal antibody, tislelizumab, to treat unresectable recurrent locally advanced metastatic esophageal...