Merck & Co. and Healthy Interactions alliance’s Map4health, a new digital and mobile service catering to diabetes patients, is designed for connecting patients with doctors to educate and help them between clinic visits.
Wake Forest School of medicine researchers together with the National Institute on Drug Abuse are striving to combat the country’s opioid crisis and could possibly have developed an analgesic that is harmless and non-addictive in an animal model.
Merck and Healthy Interactions, a healthcare firm for people that provides digital and personal solutions for management and education of chronic illnesses, jointly started a diabetes management and engagement platform which encourages personal counselling programs.
HitGen and Merck have updated their licensing agreement to a full-fledged drug discovery collaboration in order to screen DNA-encoded libraries for new small-molecule assets.
96-week data on doravirine, Merck’s HIV drug, was posted by the drugmaker recently. Merck expects it to outrun drugs like Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Sustiva in combination regimens and antiretroviral drugs from AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson in viral suppression.
Keytruda is now allowed only for the patients whose tumor expression levels of the biomarker PD-L1 meet a combined positive score of 10 or higher. Tecentriq can only be used where PD-L1 immune cells can cover only 5% or more of their tumor area.
On Wednesday, a day after Keytruda got the thumbs up for cervical cancer, the drug was approved for treatment of a rare form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma patients who cancer returned after at least two previous treatment lines. Last year, Keytruda also got an indication for classical Hodgkin lymphoma.
Merck & Co, developer of Gardasil and Gardasil 9 which recently got approved by Chinese authorities, have earned millions of dollars for their Zhifei Biological Products. It has also spurred two Chinese families into Bloomberg’s ranking of the world richest people.
In a major setback for Eisai and Merck & Co, the FDA has stalled the roll-out of Lenvima as a treatment for earlier untreated liver cancer patients. Big things were expected by Merck & Co when Eisai’s Lenvima was scheduled to be launched in March. Merck has agreed to shell out USD 5.8 billion on half of the liver cancer’s drug sales.
Pharma giant Merck & Co. revealed Keytruda had perfectly completed its final-stage research on the drug for previously untreated patients with skin cancer, who represent about 25% to 30% of the overall market.
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