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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about compounders suing the FDA, Biogen turning to telehealth, and more

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… A trade group representing large compounding pharmacies has sued the U.S. appeals court ruled 2-1 that Merck is immune from an antitrust lawsuit accusing it of misleading regulators about the effectiveness of its mumps vaccine in order to ward off competition, Reuters says.

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Boosting Immunity for Cold and Flu Season

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Strengthen your immune system naturally for cold and flu season with effective supplements, practical tips, and proven immune-boosting strategies. The post Boosting Immunity for Cold and Flu Season appeared first on The Compounding Pharmacy of America.

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How to Strengthen Your Child’s Immune System Before School Starts

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Having a strong immune system that’s ready to battle the different colds and viruses that come your way is essential, especially when you’re a child in school. The post How to Strengthen Your Child’s Immune System Before School Starts appeared first on The Compounding Pharmacy of America. Because of everything […].

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German biotech CatalYm raises €50 million for GDF-15 inhibitor immunotherapy

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High concentrations of the GDF-15 in serum and tumour-micro-environment help cancers to evade the immune system and are associated with resistance to current therapies. In both cases, the tissue is growing very rapidly and aggressively and there is a need for vascularisation, nutrients and to escape the immune system.

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Why EPA’s long-awaited proposal on two ‘forever chemicals’ is bound to be controversial

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By the end of this year , the Environmental Protection Agency has promised to propose new national drinking water standards for PFOA and PFOS, two of the most studied pollutants among the thousands of compounds known as PFAS, or, more colloquially, “forever chemicals.” Read the rest…

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STAT+: For a leukemia that keeps returning, AbbVie drug may offer chance for a deep remission

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These compounds are double-armed antibodies that can grab onto cancer cells on one end and T cells with the other end. By doing so, the drug helps to guide immune cells to cancer cells and trigger the immune system to destroy the cancer. Epkinly is a type of drug called a bispecific T cell engager.

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Astellas and Sutro partner to develop immunostimulatory ADCs

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An iADC merges an antibody with a small molecule compound that elicits immunogenic cell death, and an immune-activating molecule. Sutro will oversee the research and preclinical research to detect candidate compounds and subsequently Astellas will carry out the clinical development.