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FDA AdCom votes in favour of Lundbeck’s/Otsuka’s Rexulti in AAD

Pharmaceutical Technology

On 14 April 2023, experts from the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Advisory Committee (AdCom) voted largely in favour of the potential approval of Otsuka’ s and Lundbeck Pharmaceuticals’ Rexulti for the treatment of agitation associated with Alzheimer’s dementia (AAD). The FDA will consider the AdCom as it reviews the drug’s sNDA.

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COVID At-Home Antigen Tests: If at First You Don’t Succeed Try, Try and Try Again

The FDA Law Blog

By doing so, FDA has limited the number of tests that have reached the market, thereby reducing available supply and increasing prices. As FDA would acknowledge, the antigen tests are the fastest and most practical method for distributing testing in the general population. That could happen again.

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AI platform says Olumiant could be repurposed for Alzheimer’s

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A team based at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School has come up with an AI algorithm – called DRIAD (Drug Repurposing In Alzheimer’s Disease) – that it hopes will not only find treatments but also tease out new therapeutic targets.

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Financial assistance for hearing aids

The Checkup by Singlecare

The FDA has approved these devices for mild to moderate hearing loss. Average cost of hearing aids The average cost for a pair of hearing aids is around $4,500, although prices may range from under $1,000 to more than $8,000. They are easy to find at your local pharmacy, retail stores, and online.

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Covid-19 vaccine success bolsters nanoparticle drug delivery research

Pharmaceutical Technology

Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer /BioNTech, which use lipid nanoparticles, became the only two FDA-approved vaccines for almost all ages. However, after a period of slow movement in the field, the FDA approved the first nanodrug, Doxil, for Kaposi sarcoma in 1995. Please check your email to download the Report.

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Antidepressants and Suicide: Why Don’t People Think There’s a Link?

The People's Pharmacy

At one point, she was on multiple medications, some contraindicated. When she died, she had just been put on an antidepressant with a black-box FDA suicide warning. ” “It would be disastrous if an antidepressant medication actually produced “obsessive, recurrent, persistent and intrusive” thoughts of suicide.

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Resourceful or risky? The UK’s controversial COVID-19 vaccine strategy

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. “Erosion of public trust” The NHS Confederation, which represents leaders across the organisation, told pharmaphorum the government needed to be very clear in its communications with the public about exactly what they are being asked to do and why. “We The FDA issued a statement regarding dosing schedules on 4 January 2021. “We