Ovarian cancer, often termed the silent killer, typically presents no symptoms in its initial stages, leading to late detection when treatment becomes challenging. The stark contrast in survival rates highlights the urgent need for early diagnosis: while late-stage ovarian cancer patients have a five-year survival rate of around 31% post-treatment, early detection and treatment can raise this rate to over 90%. Despite over three decades of research, developing an accurate early diagnostic test for ovarian cancer has proved challenging. This difficulty stems from the disease’s molecular origins, where multiple pathways can lead to the same cancer type. Scientists at the Georgia Tech Integrated Cancer Research Center (ICRC, Atlanta, GA, USA) have now made a breakthrough by integrating machine learning with blood metabolite information, developing a test that can detect ovarian cancer with 93% accuracy in their study group. This test outperforms existing detection methods, especially in identifying early-stage ovarian disease ...
Drugdu.com expert’s response: Exporting pharmaceuticals to Canada requires adherence to specific processes and regulations. Here are the key steps for exporting pharmaceuticals to Canada: Understanding Canadian Regulations: Before exporting, familiarize yourself with the pharmaceutical regulations and regulatory requirements of Canada. Health Canada is the regulatory authority responsible for formulating and enforcing policies on drug imports. Familiarity with these regulations is essential to ensure that the exported pharmaceuticals comply with Canadian standards. Registration and Approval: Pharmaceuticals must be registered and approved by Health Canada before export. Depending on the type of drug, different application forms and materials may be required. Specific requirements can be found on Health Canada’s official website: https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada.html Quality Management in Drug Production: Ensure that exported pharmaceuticals meet Canadian Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). Exporting companies should regularly conduct internal audits to ensure compliance with GMP standards. Product Labeling and Instructions: Pharmaceutical labels and instructions must be prepared according ...
The start of the new year doesn’t seem to have dulled the zeal of Pfizer’s global cost-cutting campaign, which has already left hundreds of jobs in its wake.Come mid-February, Pfizer will lay off some 52 employees at a facility in South San Francisco, according to a recent Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) alert. That address matches the former headquarters of Global Blood Therapeutics, which Pfizer scooped up for $5.4 billion back in 2022. Along with the deal, Pfizer gained GBT’s marketed sickle cell disease drug Oxbryta. “As previously communicated, Pfizer has launched an enterprise-wide cost realignment program,” a Pfizer spokesperson said via email. The program will “result in some job loss across a number of our locations, including South San Francisco,” the spokesperson said.“Pfizer does not take these changes lightly,” she added. GBT’s Oxbryta won FDA approval in sickle cell disease back in 2019. When Pfizer closed its GBT buyout in October 2022, ...
Spanish plasma medicines producer Grifols is clapping back at Gotham City Research, filing a lawsuit that accuses the New York hedge fund of “knowingly making false and misleading statements” about the company “to manipulate the value of Grifols’ stock for their own monetary gain.” The complaint, filed in federal court in the Southern District of New York, comes in response to a report from Gotham on Jan. 9 which accused Grifols of wrongful accounting practices.Gotham called Grifols shares “uninvestable,” and over the next several days the report triggered a drop in Grifols shares of more than 30% and a freefall of its market cap from $7.6 billion to $4.6 billion. In reaction to the Gotham report, in a regulatory filing to Spain’s stock market watchdog CNMV, Grifols called it “false information” and “speculation.” The accounting questions raised by Gotham surround Grifols’ 2018 acquisitions of Haema AG and Biotest though its subsidiary Scranton Enterprises. In essence, Gotham said Grifols has underreported ...
Recently, Chengdu Shengdi Medical Company Co., Ltd.., a subsidiary of Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., received notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that the company’s Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA, U.S. generic drug application) for tacrolimus extended-release capsules has been approved for marketing in the U.S.. This product is suitable for use in combination with other immunosuppressants to prevent graft rejection after adult kidney transplantation. The company’s tacrolimus sustained-release capsules are the first generic drug approved by the U.S. FDA for marketing, and are also the first domestic generic products. They have been approved for marketing in China in June 2022. Tacrolimus is the core basic immunosuppressant after transplantation [1]. It is a calcineurin inhibitor (CNI). Its mechanism is to inhibit the activity of calcineurin, thereby inhibiting the production of various cytokines. Expression and/or production, such as IL-1β, IL-2, IFN-γ, TNF-α, etc., ultimately inhibit T lymphocyte activation and ...
Enhertu has been approved by the FDA for indications in breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, and gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. Image credit: David A Litman | stock.adobe.com The FDA has granted Priority Review to a supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) from AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s for Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan [DXd]) to treat adults with previously treated unresectable or metastatic human epidermal growth factor 2 (HER2)-positive (immunohistochemistry [IHC] 3+) solid tumors with no satisfactory alternative therapeutic options.1 Enhertu is a HER2-directed antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) with approved indications in breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) adenocarcinoma. “Today’s Priority Review for the first tumor-agnostic submission for Enhertu reflects the potential of this medicine to redefine the treatment of HER2-expressing cancers,” Susan Galbraith, executive vice president, Oncology R&D, AstraZeneca, in a press release. “Biomarkers for HER2 expression are already established in breast and gastric cancers, but we must now define them across tumor types. ...
Don Tracy, Associate Editor Atypical antidepressant linked to severe adverse effects and death as a result of misuse. This week, the FDA released a statement warning consumers to stay away from Neptune Resources’ Fix Elixir, Fix Extra Strength Elixir, and Fix Tablets. Citing potential adverse events (AEs) such as seizures, loss of consciousness, and death, the agency stated that they have continued to receive several reports of these AEs. After releasing an initial warning statement in November, the FDA sent a letter on January 11, 2024, to multiple retailers, stressing the need to pull Neptune’s Fix and any other tianeptine-containing products from their inventory. “Neptune’s Fix labels state the product contains tianeptine, but the product may contain other harmful ingredients not listed on the label,” the agency said in the statement “These products, like other tianeptine products, can be purchased online and at gas stations, vape or smoke shops, or ...
Merck’s unique approval for Keytruda as a postsurgical treatment for resectable kidney cancer has gained new backing in the form of data showing the PD-1 inhibitor can extend patients’ lives. Keytruda slashed the risk of death by 38% compared with placebo when used after kidney removal in patients with clear cell renal carcinoma, the most common form of kidney cancer, according to newly released trial results. After four years of treatment, investigators estimated that 91.2% of patients in the Keytruda arm were still alive, versus 86% for the control group. The results, which reached statistical significance, come from an update of the Keynote-564 trial. Previously, disease-free survival results from the same trial supported Keytruda’s 2021 approval as an adjuvant therapy for certain kidney cancer patients at risk of recurrence after surgery. Keytruda’s survival win comes just as Bristol Myers Squibb’s rival PD-1 inhibitor, Opdivo, failed for a second time in ...
Currently, no artificial intelligence (AI) or machine-learning tools are available for investigating and interpreting the complete human genome, particularly for non-experts. Now, a first-of-its-kind software combines AI and machine-learning approaches to understand the importance of specific genomic biomarkers to predict diseases in individuals. The IntelliGenes software created by researchers at Rutgers Health (New Brunswick, NJ, USA) combines conventional statistical methods with cutting-edge machine learning algorithms to generate personalized patient predictions and provide a visual representation of the biomarkers significant to disease prediction. IntelliGenes has been designed in such as way that the platform can be used by anyone, including students or those lacking strong knowledge of bioinformatics techniques or access to high-performing computers. In a study, the researchers demonstrated how IntelliGenes can be deployed by a wide range of users to analyze multigenomic and clinical data. In another study, the researchers applied IntelliGenes to discover novel biomarkers and predict cardiovascular ...
CG Oncology’s upsized IPO will support pivotal testing of cretostimogene, an oncolytic virus for non-muscle invasive bladder cancer. The clinical program spans tests of the engineered virus as a monotherapy and as part of combination treatments. By FRANK VINLUAN CG Oncology, a company that turns viruses into cancer therapies, has raised $380 million to fund clinical development of a therapy that the company believes could become a new first-line treatment for certain bladder cancers. The stock offering marks the first biotech IPO of 2024. CG was able to raise much more than planned. In preliminary financial terms set earlier this week, the company projected selling 17 million shares in the range of $16 to $18 each, which would have raised $289 million at the pricing midpoint. When CG finalized the IPO terms late Thursday, it ended up offering 20 million shares priced at $19 apiece. Those shares will trade on ...
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