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EMA panel probes heart inflammation with Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine

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Happy to announce that @EU_Commission has just approved a contract for guaranteed 900 million doses (+900 million options) with @BioNTech_Group @Pfizer for 2021-2023. — Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) May 8, 2021. Other contracts and other vaccine technologies will follow.

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Current and future players in the lupus market

Pharmaceutical Technology

The management of SLE and LN consists largely of treatment options that are based on highly efficacious steroids or immune-suppressive therapy with an undesirable safety profile, which includes accrued organ damage, infections and cancer. in 2018 across the 7MM despite being an off-label therapy for lupus.

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Immunocore claims first-ever FDA approval for TCR cancer therapy

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At the moment the only other BiTE to reach the US market is Amgen’s CD19-targeting Blincyto (blinatumomab), which has been approved for various types of leukaemia and made $340 million in sales in the first nine months of 2021.

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Phase III trial shows tislelizumab improves outcomes for liver cancer patients

European Pharmaceutical Review

The RATIONALE 301 Phase III randomised, open-label study included more than 600 patients in the US, Europe and Asia. receptors on macrophages, helping the body’s immune cells to detect and fight tumours. The primary endpoint of non-inferiority of overall survival (OS) between the two groups of patients was met, BeiGene said.

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Dupixent face rash and redness: Causes and treatment

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How Dupixent works in the body It’s still unclear what causes atopic dermatitis , the most common form of adult and pediatric eczema, but it’s commonly regarded as an immune system and skin barrier condition. Those intruders trigger the immune system, which releases certain proteins that cause skin inflammation.

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AstraZeneca goes bigger in amyloidosis with Neurimmune deal

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billion on the first nine months of 2021, well ahead of Pfizer’s own forecasts. NI006 is an antibody that binds to the misfolded forms of the transthyretin protein that form the fibrils, and cause them to be cleared away by immune cells like macrophages. Tafamidis is thought to work by stabilising the misfolded proteins.

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As cases rise, WHO says monkeypox risk is “moderate”

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For comparison, there were just seven cases of monkeypox in the UK between 2018 and 2021, according to a just-published paper in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. No deaths have been reported from the infections.

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