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FDA pulls AZ’s Evusheld for COVID, citing lack of efficacy

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AstraZeneca’s revenue boost from COVID-19 therapy Evusheld looks set to be curbed early, as the FDA withdraws authorisation for the antibody on the grounds that it is ineffective against most subvariants now circulating in the US. and other XBB subvariants, said the FDA in an update. Evusheld is also ineffective against the BQ.1,

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What side effects to expect from the shingles vaccine

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Luckily, there’s a shot to help prevent it: Shingrix, the shingles vaccine. The Shingrix vaccine triggers the immune system to respond to the varicella virus and suppress the outbreak of shingles,” says David Cutler , MD, a family medicine physician at Providence Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, California.

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Takeda gets a win for its Wave1 pipeline, as Exkivity nabs FDA approval

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Takeda has had a run of bad luck with its Wave1 pipeline of new drug candidates of late, but can now celebrate a vestry after getting FDA approval for first-in-class lung cancer therapy Exkivity. The post Takeda gets a win for its Wave1 pipeline, as Exkivity nabs FDA approval appeared first on.

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STAT+: Foundation charges cancer patients $83,000 for unproven but promising experimental drug

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Still, when doctors told her last year that the cancer was growing despite two operations, radiation therapy, and a fifth regimen of chemotherapy, the retired business-meeting facilitator decided to do something unorthodox: spend $83,000 out of pocket on an unproven experimental cancer vaccine.

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FDA fast-tracks Leap’s gastric cancer immunotherapy

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Leap Therapeutics will get a swift FDA review for its lead drug DKN-01 for a form of gastric and gastroesophageal junction (G/GEJ) cancer after being awarded fast-track status by the regulator. The post FDA fast-tracks Leap’s gastric cancer immunotherapy appeared first on.

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FDA gives Ferring go-ahead for Adstiladrin gene therapy manufacturing

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Ferring Pharmaceuticals’ Prior-Approval Supplement (PAS) to the Biologics License Application (BLA) for the bladder cancer gene-therapy Adstiladrin (nadofaragene firadenovec). Non-muscle invasive bladder cancer is characterised by cancer cells that remain only in the lining of the bladder.

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ESMO 2022: data updates push immunotherapy’s scope in cervical cancer

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Early-stage cervical cancer patients achieve good recovery through surgery and concurrent chemotherapy, but treatment options are scarce for those with recurrent metastatic cervical cancer. Opdivo is a programmed cell death receptor-1 (PD-1) inhibitor approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of several cancers.