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Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug: What’s the price tag on hope?

World of DTC Marketing

Since that time, Biogen’s MS drugs have faced intense competition as MS patients continue to vent on social media that the Biogen drug has nasty side effects. Biogen concluded the key to effectiveness was giving patients a high-enough dose, but critics howled, with one calling the analysis “a post hoc dumpster dive operation.”

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How Pharmacogenomics may finally realise its promise

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In 2016, the estimated annual cost of drug-related morbidity and mortality resulting from non-optimised medication therapy was $528.4 This means that hyper-metabolisers would need their dosage to be increased to achieve the desired effect. billion in the United States alone.

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Research Fronts 2022 highlights hot and emerging fields, including vaccine hesitancy, ‘mega-fires’ and asteroids [Report]

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Starting with 12,160 Research Fronts, representing papers published and cited between 2016 and 2021, the next step was to select the fronts containing core literature that is both highly cited and recent – an indicator of particularly active and fast-moving research. Fields and nations.

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Novel oral chemotherapeutic holds potential for stomach cancer patients

European Pharmaceutical Review

There is an urgent need for more effective chemotherapy treatments with less severe toxicity and side effects. Irinotecan – also known by the brand name Campto/Camptosar ® (Pfizer Ltd.) – has proven to be an effective chemotherapy agent against several types of gastrointestinal cancer. 5): V38-V49.

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Understanding the evidence used in drug product withdrawals

European Pharmaceutical Review

Our research showed that in Europe between 1999 and 2016, 35 products were withdrawn. Samantha leads study design and statistical analysis and has experience with the CPRD electronic health records database. 1,2 This signals a promising trend towards a more comprehensive and diversified approach in regulatory decision-making.

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Developing the EU’s first intestinal microbiota-based biologic

European Pharmaceutical Review

The specific representation of these events differed between the treatments, highlighting potential differences in side effect profiles that should be explored in further studies. 2016; 46: 479–93. Adverse events were relatively low in both groups (2.22 percent for MBK-01 and 4.26 percent for fidaxomicin). Intern Med J.

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Solving the taxing problems of taxanes?

European Pharmaceutical Review

based treatment concomitant with reductions in traditionally unavoidable and problematic side effects. Patient Preference and Adherence, 2016. FDA Feedback Leads to Discontinuation of Tesetaxel Development in Solid Tumors [Internet]. The importance of taxanes in oncology. Volume 10, pp.1609–1621. 1609–1621. Karlovitch S.