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Our healthcare has failed us

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Not only has the FDA become a political pawn but almost half the population is now obese. The adult obesity rate passed 40 percent nationally for the first time according to the 2017–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), a 26 percent jump from 2007–2008. IN SUMMARY: American healthcare is failing.

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Competition is on the horizon for costly narcolepsy treatments

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Sodium oxybate — which in the late 1980s was marketed to bodybuilders and then became known as GHB and criminally used as a date rape drug — has been sold under the brand name Xyrem after gaining FDA approval in 2002. In 2020, the FDA-approved indication was expanded to include those patients who suffer from cataplexy.

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The lingering menace of diethylene glycol / ethylene glycol adulteration

European Pharmaceutical Review

The 1938 law effectively changed the focus of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from a policing agency to a regulatory agency tasked with overseeing the safety evaluation of new drug products. There is now global awareness of this issue and FDA issued a guidance note on the problem in 2007. 05 October 2022. Ann Intern Med.

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Pressure rises on Lucentis, as Coherus biosimilar gets FDA nod

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The US FDA has approved a new biosimilar of Roche and Novartis’ blockbuster ophthalmology therapy Lucentis – Coherus BioSciences’ Cimerli – which its developer claims is the first to be fully interchangeable with the originator product. The post Pressure rises on Lucentis, as Coherus biosimilar gets FDA nod appeared first on.

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First continuous mRNA manufacturing platform to be developed

European Pharmaceutical Review

The $82 million project is funded by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research. This $85 million programme ran between 2007 and 2019. This new pilot-scale system builds on success of the Novartis-MIT Center for Continuous Manufacturing.

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Dr B raises $8m for telehealth service to deliver COVID antivirals

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It will provide a low-cost online consultation and prescription medicine service to patients, starting with the two oral COVID-19 antivirals – Pfizer’s Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir/ritonavir) and Merck & Co’s Lagevrio (molnupiravir) – which are authorised for at-home use by the FDA.

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Nine for 2023, part two: healthcare’s hard problem, the prognosis for diagnosis, and key new pharmacotherapy platforms

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There were developments in the past 12 months, true – Biogen/Eisai’s lecanemab (now branded Leqembi) showed clear success in the Clarity AD trial and received approval by FDA on 6th January 2023. Difficile at the end of November 2022, but in 2023 they will be joined by Seres, which expects an FDA decision in April 2023 on its C.

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