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Zydus gets FDA approval for antibiotic drug azithromycin

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted final approval to India-based Zydus Lifesciences ‘ 500mg azithromycin tablets for the treatment of bacterial infections. Zydus will manufacture the drug at its formulation facility in Moraiya, Ahmedabad, in the Indian state of Gujarat.

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Targeting tumours with novel radiopharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

One of the aspects of radiopharmaceuticals that is often overlooked is how complicated it is to develop a new agent, in terms of the complexity of drug design to realise a therapeutic candidate and the implementation of the clinical evaluations. This is not an effective strategy. Barrett at the Center for Gamma Ray Imaging.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Limitations of monoclonal antibody therapies Regulatory approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for aducanumab and lecanemab – and likely very soon for donanemab also – opened a route for different therapeutic modalities and other relevant disease targets, such as tau.

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Innovations & Challenges in Brain Health

PM360

They are difficult to diagnose early in a disease, the regulatory endpoints are often unprecedented and challenging, and many drugs struggle to get into the brain. The downside is that it also keeps most potential drug treatments from reaching the brain. Not surprisingly, several companies have been in and out of brain health diseases.

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Direct to Patient Healthcare

Healthcare Success

Yeah, for some folks, and you know, and I think my, you know, my role was, I started at Mayo clinic in public affairs on the media relations team in 2000, and then 2003 became manager of the media relations team, and then 2005 heard about this new thing called podcasting at the time which had been invented a year before. It was scary.