Tag: clinical trials

January 19, 2022

Akari Therapeutics, Plc, a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on therapeutics to treat orphan autoimmune and inflammatory diseases where complement (C5) and/or leukotriene (LTB4) systems are implicated, has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) has agreed, […]

January 18, 2022

Stanford University spinout N1 Life has formed a joint venture to further its drug delivery ambitions. The startup is teaming up with Accuredit Therapeutics to create a joint venture, Napoltec, focused on novel drug delivery systems and the progression of […]

January 14, 2022

The European Commission (EC), the Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA) have launched an initiative to transform clinical trials within the European Union (EU). The Aim of Accelerating Clinical Trials in the EU (ACT EU) […]

January 12, 2022

In a highly unusual decision for a therapy approved by FDA, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) took action to limit prescribing and use of Biogen’s new and controversial Alzheimer’s treatment Aduhelm (aducanumab). The CMS National Coverage Determination […]

January 12, 2022

Biogen and partner Eisai had been hoping for good news from the review of Aduhelm (aducanumab) by the Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), but the draft decision means broad coverage of the drug will have to wait for […]

January 10, 2022

One of the strongest trends in clinical trials is patient centricity, which is to say, making the patient experience as easy and accessible as possible. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, this became even more of a focus because […]

January 4, 2022

Fabry is one of several dozen diseases known collectively as lysosomal storage disorders, all caused by genetic breakdowns in how the body’s cells process complex fats or sugars. Treatment, when it’s available, usually involves infusions of the digestive proteins that […]

January 3, 2022

One year ago, the biotechnology sector was in the middle of a record run. The successful development of coronavirus vaccines and drugs had helped slow the pandemic and propelled investment into new companies going public at a historic rate. Biotech […]

December 22, 2021

The data are clear: White patients are taking up the majority of clinical trials. About 130 million Americans across various races are “being somewhat ignored, [or] deprioritized, in clinical trials” that support regulatory approval, said Yele Aluko, M.D., chief medical […]

December 17, 2021

A total 35 percent of healthcare professionals worldwide believe that digital transformation — involving the use of technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), big data, cloud computing, application programming interfaces (API) and digital platforms — would improve both pre-clinical and […]

December 16, 2021

A Centres for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) advisory committee is scheduled to meet today to discuss the new results, according to a Washington Post report, which point to continued rates of blood clots among people taking the vaccine. The […]

December 15, 2021

The FDA has kicked off a priority review of Opzelura (ruxolitinib), a JAK1/JAK2 inhibitor it approved to treat atopic dermatitis in September, and aims to decide on the vitiligo indication by 18 April next year. If approved, Opzelura would provide […]