Clinical Trials

Jardiance Slows Kidney Decline by 40% in Heart Failure Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Eli Lilly and Company recently announced that Jardiance slowed kidney function decline in adults with heart failure with left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) over 40 percent regardless of chronic...

J&J Increases Access To Its COVID-19 Vaccine Through COVAX

by Samantha McGrail

Johnson & Johnson recently entered into an agreement with the US government and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to allow access to its single-shot COVID-19 vaccine through the COVAX Humanitarian...

GSK’s Daprodustat Effective in Chronic Kidney Disease Patients

by Samantha McGrail

GSK recently announced that its drug, daprodustat, was safe and effective in patients with anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD).  The Phase 3 ASCENT trial studied the hypoxia-inducible...

Gilead, Merck Initiate Phase 2 Study for HIV Treatment in Adults

by Samantha McGrail

Gilead and Merck recently announced the start of a Phase 2 clinical study evaluating a combination HIV treatment regimen in adults living with the disease. The open-label study will evaluate the...

Merck’s COVID-19 Treatment Receives First Authorization in UK

by Samantha McGrail

Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics recently announced that the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) authorized their COVID-19 treatment for adults. The UK’s...

Abbott Increases Clinical Trial Diversity In Medical Research

by Samantha McGrail

Abbott recently launched a new initiative to increase clinical trial diversity in medical research through training, education, and improved clinical research infrastructure throughout the...

Pfizer’s COVID-19 Treatment Reduces Hospitalization by 89%

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer recently announced that its COVID-19 treatment, PAXLOVID, reduced hospitalization and death in high-risk adults with coronavirus by 89 percent compared to placebo.  In the Phase 2/3...

CDC Recommends Pfizer- BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for Children

by Samantha McGrail

The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recently recommended Pfizer and BioNTech’s pediatric COVID-19 vaccine for children five to 11 years of age. The organization now...

Moderna Doses the First Participant in Study of CMV mRNA Vaccine

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna recently dosed the first participant in the Phase 3 pivotal registration study of its cytomegalovirus (CMV) mRNA vaccine candidate, mRNA-1647. The CMVictory study will evaluate the safety and...

Collaboration to Study Antibody Drug, Keytruda in Lung Cancer

by Samantha McGrail

Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca recently entered into a second clinical trial collaboration and supply agreement with Merck to evaluate an antibody-drug conjugate with Keytruda in patients with...

Eli Lilly Drug Proves Effective In Adults With Type 2 Diabetes

by Samantha McGrail

Eli Lilly and Company recently announced that tirzepatide elicited superior A1C and body weight reductions from baseline in adults with type 2 diabetes with increased cardiovascular risk.  Data...

Bristol Myers Squibb Reinforces Efficacy of MS Drug, Zeposia

by Samantha McGrail

Bristol Myers Squibb recently announced interim results from a Phase 3 open-label extension trial, which showed the long-term efficacy and safety profile of Zeposia in patients with relapsing forms of...

FDA Approves Eli Lilly and Company’s Breast Cancer Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently approved Eli Lilly and Company’s Verzenio to treat adult patients with hormone receptor-positive (HR+), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative (HER2-), early breast...

Two Doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine Effective in Children

by Samantha McGrail

Moderna recently announced that two doses of its COVID-19 vaccine showed a robust neutralizing antibody response in children six to under 12 years of age.  The Phase 2/3 KidCOVE randomized...

Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Dose 95.6% Effective

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer and BioNTech recently announced that their COVID-19 vaccine booster was 95.6 percent effective in individuals compared to placebo.    The randomized, controlled Phase 3 trial...

FDA Approves First Treatment for Rare Disease Congenital Athymia

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently approved Rethymic to treat pediatric patients with rare disease congenital athymia.  Congenital athymia is a rare immune disorder in which a child is born without a thymus. The...

FDA Awards $25M in Grants to Clinical Trials Studying Rare Diseases

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently awarded 11 new clinical trial research grants, totaling $25 million over the next four years to support the development of medical products for patients with rare diseases.  The...

Roche Receives Breakthrough Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently granted Roche’s anti-amyloid beta antibody, gantenerumab, breakthrough therapy designation to treat individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease.  The agency based its...

AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Antibody Prevents and Treats COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca recently announced that its COVID-19 antibody, AZD7442, reduced severe COVID-19 or death compared to placebo in non-hospitalized patients with mild-to-moderate symptomatic...

WHO Recommends Broad Roll-Out of GSK’s Malaria Vaccine For Children

by Samantha McGrail

GSK recently welcomed the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recommendation for the broader development of GSK’s RTS, S malaria vaccine to reduce childhood illness and deaths from malaria in...