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FDA Under Pressure To Alter Accelerated Approval Program

The necessity to update and alter the FDA's now-contentious rapid approval strategy is highlighted by the protracted, complicated FDA process to discontinue commercialization of medications that do not demonstrate safety and efficacy in mandated post-approval confirmatory studies. Over the...

Less Prostate Cancer Testing Leads To More Advanced Tumours

According to data from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), a reduction in prostate cancer screening has been associated with a subsequent rise in advanced malignancies. These findings may prompt a review of the country's current testing recommendations....

Scientists At ICR Research Cancer Response To New Treatments

Researchers discovered that by turning off the function of two genes, stomach tumours can become resistant to ATR inhibitors. As a result, genetic screening tests may one day be used to identify patients with cancers that are most likely...

CDC Suggests Pairing Novavax COVID Shot With Pfizer, Moderna

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on October 19 advised adults in the United States to take Covid boosters from Novavax, even those who had received their primary round of doses from Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson. Adults 18...

FDA To Fund $38 Million To Fuel 4-Year Rare Disease Research

A total of $38 million has been granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the form of 19 new grants and two new contracts to support the forthcoming four years of clinical trial trials and regulatory...

US-Supplied Ebola Antibodies And Antivirals Reach Uganda

Remdesivir from Gilead Sciences and MBP134, an experimental Ebola antibody drug from Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., were sent by the United States last week, ending October 15th, to Uganda to help protect healthcare workers reacting to an outbreak that has...

US Healthcare Saves $21 Billion From Biosimilar Rivalry

Amgen's market forecast for 2022 explains how competition has led to healthcare cost savings and predicts that a sizable proportion of biologics will compete with biosimilars in five to ten years. The statistics showed that adoption in the US has...

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