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Are new weight loss drugs an answer or problem?

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Worldwide obesity rates have tripled since 1975, with 650 million adults obese in 2016, according to the World Health Organization. It has to persuade patients to sign up for some heinous side effects. When patients stop taking Wegovy, their appetite returns within weeks, and they pack on weight.

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

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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. Knopman, a Mayo Clinic neurologist who treats Alzheimer’s patients and is a member of the FDA advisory committee. Washington Post.

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Novel oral chemotherapeutic holds potential for stomach cancer patients

European Pharmaceutical Review

The availability of oral chemotherapy treatments would provide stomach cancer patients with the option of more efficacious drugs with improved tolerability in a more convenient dosage format” The poor clinical outcomes of stomach cancer make it a key target for drug development. New hope for stomach cancer patients.

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Free access to Zolgensma curbed, says Novartis

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Along with Zolgensma – which made its debut in 2019 – Biogen has had approval to market its antisense-based therapy Spinraza (nusinersen) since 2016, while Roche got a green light for its orally-administered therapy Evrysdi (risdiplam) in 2020. ” Zolgensma is one of the most expensive therapies available, with a price tag of around $2.1

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NICE guidance recommends olaparib for breast and prostate cancers

European Pharmaceutical Review

For breast cancer patients, the treatment is approved for those who have inherited faults in their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes, after surgery and chemotherapy and are HER2-negative and at high-risk. Additionally, this means NICE has now made positive recommendations in all 19 of its appraisals of breast cancer treatments since 2016.

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Intratumoural viral delivery improves glioblastoma survival

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percent 12-month overall survival (OS) rate for patients with recurrent GBM. Twenty percent of patients with recurrent GBM remained alive for at least three years, and tumour reduction in complete responders continued for more than a year. The median age of patients was 53 years and 41 percent were women.

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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 There have been great strides made in genomics to refine tools that determine the safest, most effective course of treatments for patients across a number of disease states.