After a strong 2017, Sanofi Pasteur got off to a less-than-stellar start this year. In China, inspectors put a temporary kibosh on imports of the pediatric shot Pentaxim, thanks to vaccine batches that failed to pass inspection. That move hobbled the shot's sales—and dragged the rest of the unit down, too.
Foundation Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ:FMI) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted a Breakthrough Device designation (formerly Expedited Access Pathway program) for its new liquid biopsy assay, which is an expanded version of its FoundationACT® assay. The new assay will include more than 70 genes and genomic biomarkers for microsatellite instability (MSI) and blood tumor mutational burden (bTMB). If approved, this test could be the first FDA-approved liquid biopsy assay to incorporate multiple companion diagnostics (CDx) and multiple biomarkers to inform the use of targeted oncology therapies, including immunotherapies.
Mobile health (mHealth) applications for clinical decision support could improve physicians’ test ordering and diagnosis decisions, according to a study published April 20 in the Journal of Informatics in Health and Biomedicine.
AstraZeneca and Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, N.J., US (Merck: known as MSD outside the US and Canada) today presented data from the Phase III OlympiAD trial, showing the final overall survival (OS) results for LYNPARZA®(olaparib) in metastatic breast cancer at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 14-18, 2018.
A new report in JAMA Internal Medicine by University of Sydney and Bond University scholars weighs the risks and benefits of a recent change to blood pressure guidelines in the US.
To diagnose cancer, doctors use a bunch of complex examinations like an MRI, a CT scan, a biopsy or a lengthy blood test. Because of the sophisticated machines and equipment needed for these techniques and procedures, they are only conducted in the hospital setting. One startup is about to change this with its portable cancer-detecting device.
A new Blockchain platform has seemingly proven that it is possible to for AI to perform more accurate health diagnosis than human doctors, paving the way for a change in the way medical tests are performed.
On April 6, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration(FDA) approved rucaparib (Rubraca®, Clovis Oncology Inc.), a poly ADP-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibitor, for the maintenance treatment of recurrent epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who are in a complete or partial response to platinum-based chemotherapy.
Funding supports Phase 2 clinical trials of AG10, a potential best-in-class therapy for transthyretin amyloidosis, and ongoing preparation for Phase 3 clinical trials
AI technology is already in use in certain aspects of healthcare, such as diagnostic imaging, but it’s being underutilized in several others.
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