An anti-inflammatory drug has significantly lowered the risk of recurrent heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular death, all without reducing cholesterol, according to research recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine and shared at a meeting of the European Society of Cardiology.
A new anastomosis tool using a pair of medical magnets has been developed by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, US.
Titan Pharmaceuticals’ stated today that their ropinirole implant, designed to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, was cleared by the FDA today as a new drug application.
Cel-Sci said today that for a Phase III trial of its investigational immunotherapy, it inked an agreement with institutional investors for a $3.5 million registered direct offering.
Kite Pharma has begun treating the first EU patients with its investigational CAR–T candidate, axicabtagene ciloleucel (axi-cel), in the safety expansion cohort of the ZUMA-1 trial.
Accelerating access to pancreatic surgery has been shown to boost success rates by more than a fifth with a cost saving to the NHS of around £3,200 per patient.
A research team at the University of California, Riverside (UC Riverside) in the US has evaluated a new device manufactured by tissue sampling devices maker Histologics.
A long-acting, two-drug HIV regimen being co-developed by ViiV Healthcare and Janssen Sciences Ireland UC has shown comparable viral suppression rates to a three-drug regimen in a Phase II trial, indicating its potential to reduce the dosing burden for patients and thus improve treatment adherence. The LATTE-2 study assessed long-acting, injectable formulations of cabotegravir (ViiV) and rilpivirine (Janssen, branded Edurant), given every four or eight weeks to patients with HIV-1 infection who had already achieved viral suppression with a daily three-drug oral regimen of cabotegravir plus two nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs). Following 96 weeks of maintenance treatment, viral suppression rates for the two-drug regimen dosed every eight weeks (94 percent) or every four weeks (87 percent) were comparable to the rate observed in patients continuing with a three-drug oral regimen (84 percent). In the study, data from which were published in The Lancet and presented at the annual conference ...
US-based Saint Louis University (SLU) Care has started a clinical trial to evaluate the InPress Postpartum Haemorrhage Intrauterine device as a potential treatment to stop excessive bleeding for mothers after childbirth.
GlaxoSmithKline has kicked off a Phase III study exploring the potential of its biologic mepolizumab in patients with severe bilateral nasal polyps, a chronic inflammatory disease of the nasal passage linings or sinuses causing soft tissue growth in the upper nasal cavity.
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