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Malaria Developing Resistance to Drug That Saves Children's Lives

Drugs.com

THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 2024 -- Over 600,000 people worldwide die from mosquito-borne malaria each year, with the majority of these deaths happening among children under 5.Now, there's troubling news that the malaria parasite may be gaining resistance.

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Giving robots superhuman vision using radio signals

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have developed PanoRadar, a new tool to give robots superhuman vision by transforming simple radio waves into detailed, 3D views of the environment.

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Surviving in biotech’s new normal: 5 tips from industry VCs and CEOs

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

At an event hosted by BioPharma Dive, drugmaker executives and investors discussed the importance of focus, smart spending and maintaining lines of sight to the clinic.

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Recent changes to ELN

Collaborative Drug

Updates to ELN annotation tool, ELN insert link hotkey, auto generated sample IDs, list searching in inventory, flag outliers during imports

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Bridging Innovation & Patient Care: The Growing Role of AI

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Co-founder & CEO at Tattva.Health

AI is transforming clinical trials—accelerating drug discovery, optimizing patient recruitment, and improving data analysis. But its impact goes far beyond research. As AI-driven innovation reshapes the clinical trial process, it’s also influencing broader healthcare trends, from personalized medicine to patient outcomes. Join this new webinar featuring Simran Kaur for an insightful discussion on what all of this means for the future of healthcare!

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Falling Vaccination Rates Brings Spikes in Measles Worldwide

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2024 -- Waning vaccine coverage has fueled a 20% spike in measles cases worldwide, with 10.3 million people struck by the preventable illness in 2023, health officials reported Wednesday."Inadequate immunization coverage globally.

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On Wall Street, ‘flat out’ failure of AbbVie schizophrenia drug leaves analysts stunned

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Negative drug results cost AbbVie billions of dollars in market value and convinced analysts that Bristol Myers had placed a better bet in buying Karuna Therapeutics.

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Redefining Acceleration of the Drug Development Journey

PPD

It is hard to ignore some of the most pressing, long-term trends driving the push to accelerate innovation and progress in drug development. From an aging population increasing health care demand to urgent, unmet medical needs, there are clear drivers to advance safe and effective medicines to patients faster than ever. According to the United Nation’s 2024 World Population Prospects data, the global population of those 65 years old and over will grow from 0.8 billion in 2023 to 1.2 billion in 2

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Ozempic Could Help Curb Alcoholism

Drugs.com

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 13, 2024 -- The blockbuster GLP-1 drug semaglutide (Ozempic, Wegovy) could curb drinking for people battling alcohol use disorder, helping them to avoid crises that require hospitalization, new research shows. Numerous studies had.

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Fossil fuel CO2 emissions increase again in 2024

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to new research.

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From Diagnosis to Delivery: How AI is Revolutionizing the Patient Experience

Speaker: Simran Kaur, Founder & CEO at Tattva Health Inc.

The healthcare landscape is being revolutionized by AI and cutting-edge digital technologies, reshaping how patients receive care and interact with providers. In this webinar led by Simran Kaur, we will explore how AI-driven solutions are enhancing patient communication, improving care quality, and empowering preventive and predictive medicine. You'll also learn how AI is streamlining healthcare processes, helping providers offer more efficient, personalized care and enabling faster, data-driven

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Merck, facing threat to Keytruda, buys into new kind of cancer immunotherapy

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

The company is paying China-based biotech LaNova Medicines $588 million for the type of dual-pronged antibody drug that recently bested Keytruda in a clinical trial.

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From Integration to AI: The Data-Driven Future of Market Access

Drug Channels

Today’s guest post comes from Kala Bala, SVP, Enterprise Access & Data Expertise, MMIT, a Norstella company and Dinesh Kabaleeswaran, SVP, Advisory Services at MMIT, a Norstella company. The authors outline the challenges that manufacturers face when integrating internal and external datasets to build market access and commercialization strategies.

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Chlamydia Vaccine Shows Early Promise in Mice

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2024 -- An experimental vaccine has shown promise in protecting against the sexually transmitted disease chlamydia, researchers report.Lab mice given the vaccine were able to rapidly clear subsequent chlamydia infections, and were.

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One genomic test can diagnose nearly any infection

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A genomic test developed by researchers to rapidly detect almost any kind of pathogen -- virus, bacteria, fungus or parasite -- has proved successful after a decade of use.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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Eisai wins over European regulators on Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

A key regulatory committee sided against the drug this summer. But an appeal from Eisai appears to have worked, teeing Leqembi up for authorization in a major market.

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The Power of Worldwide Networks in Data and Safety Monitoring Boards

Advarra

In an era where clinical trials are increasingly global, it’s more imperative than ever to leverage international expertise. Data and safety monitoring boards (DSMBs), also known as data monitoring committees (DMCs), play a critical role in overseeing a clinical trial’s safety and efficacy. These independent committees are entrusted with the task of safeguarding study participant’s interests while ensuring the trial’s scientific integrity.

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More Evidence That GLP-1 Meds Curb Alcohol Abuse

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2024 -- There have been a slew of studies recently supporting the notion that the same mechanisms that help folks lose weight with Ozempic and its kin also work to curb problem drinking.Now, a new study out of Britain adds to that.

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Scientists discover laser light can cast a shadow

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have found that under certain conditions, a laser beam can act like an opaque object and cast a shadow, opening new possibilities for technologies that could use a laser beam to control another laser beam.

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.

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BioNTech to buy Biotheus, gaining control of cancer bispecific

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Biotheus’ antibody drug targets PD-L1 and VEGF, a design that’s high on drugmakers’ radars after the success of Summit Therapeutics’ ivonescimab over Keytruda.

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Managing Drug Patent Portfolios Effectively

Drug Patent Watch

Effective management of drug patent portfolios is crucial for pharmaceutical companies to maintain market exclusivity, protect revenue streams, and drive innovation. A robust patent strategy aligned with business goals is essential for maximizing value and staying competitive in the pharmaceutical landscape.

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Beta Blockers Unnecessary for Folks Without Heart Failure; May Be Linked to Depression

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 -- Beta blockers are go-to meds for many people who've survived a heart attack.However, new Swedish research has found that they might not be needed for heart attack survivors whose hearts have retained a normal pumping.

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Bird brain from the age of dinosaurs reveals roots of avian intelligence

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

A 'one of a kind' fossil discovery could transform our understanding of how the unique brains and intelligence of modern birds evolved, one of the most enduring mysteries of vertebrate evolution.

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Clinical Data Like You´ve Never Seen It Before: Why Spotfire Is the Leading Tool for Clinical Analytics

Clinical development organizations face a wide array of challenges when it comes to data, many of which can impact the operational effectiveness of their clinical trials. In this whitepaper, experts from Revvity Signals explore how solutions like TIBCO® Spotfire® enable better, more streamlined studies. The whitepaper also features a success story from Ambrx, a leading biopharmaceutical company, detailing how it has leveraged Spotfire to tackle data quality and collaboration challenges in clinic

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FDA approves new CAR-T competitor to Gilead’s Tecartus

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Developer Autolus set a list price of $525,000 for its new cell therapy, which it will sell for a type of leukemia under the brand name Aucatzyl.

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Regulator and Funder? FDA’s Orphan Products Grants Program awards significant funding to help move promising treatments through clinical development

FDA Law Blog: Drug Discovery

By Sarah Wicks & James E. Valentine — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plays a pivotal role in fostering the development of treatments for rare diseases through its Orphan Products Grants Program. Each year, FDA selects a limited number of clinical trials to fund to help sponsors pursue development of medical products for rare diseases and advance their field.

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Can AI Boost Accuracy of Doctors' Diagnoses?

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 2024 -- AI can’t yet help doctors improve their ability to diagnose complex conditions, a sobering new study has found.Doctors had about the same diagnostic accuracy whether or not they were using ChatGPT Plus, according to results.

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The secrets of fossil teeth revealed by the synchrotron: A long childhood is the prelude to the evolution of a large brain

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Could social bonds be the key to human big brains? A study of the fossil teeth of early Homo from Georgia dating back 1.77 million years reveals a prolonged childhood despite a small brain and an adulthood comparable to that of the great apes. This discovery suggests that an extended childhood, combined with cultural transmission in three-generation social groups, may have triggered the evolution of a large brain like that of modern humans, rather than the reverse.

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FDA lifts pause on Novavax flu vaccine trials

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

After an investigation, the agency concluded that a case of muscle weakness in one of Novavax’s trials was actually ALS and unrelated to vaccination.

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Logistics in Focus: Orchestrating the Challenges of Cell Therapy

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

By Amy Raymond, PhD, PMP, Executive Director, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Rare Disease Cell and gene therapies (CGTs) include cutting-edge approaches that offer the hope of a healthier, happier, and better tomorrow for a wide range of patient populations. CGTs address rare and complex diseases at the root cause with increasing use in cancer, genetic disorders, and autoimmune diseases.

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Vitamin D Supplements Could Help Lower Blood Pressure in Obese People

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 -- Vitamin D supplements might lower blood pressure in seniors who are obese, reducing their heart health risk, a new study says.But taking more than the recommended daily dose will not provide additional health benefits.

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First amber find on the Antarctic continent

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. Researchers have now made the southernmost discovery of amber in the world.

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