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Intercept's Ocaliva approval in jeopardy after FDA flags concerns in advisory committee briefing doc

Fierce Pharma

. | Ahead of an advisory committee meeting slated for Friday, the FDA unleashed damning briefing documents calling into question the effectiveness and safety of Intercept’s rare liver disease drug Ocaliva.

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Staying abreast of regulations with NGS?based viral safety for faster, safer and more ethical lot release of our vaccines

European Pharmaceutical Review

How does that impact the safety of the biologics? Safety is key to the development of any medicine, but the safety considerations linked to bioproduction are more complex because biologics are more sophisticated medicines than small molecules. London: European Medicines Agency; 2016 [cited May 2022]. References.

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Drug price negotiations on the horizon

World of DTC Marketing

percent of total health-care spending—in 2016, the last year for which there are definitive data. About 40 percent of drugs fail in preliminary Phase I studies, which assess a drug’s safety in humans and typically cost just $25 million a drug. After all, 90 percent of all drugs that enter human testing fail.

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Bayer unit BrainVectis cleared to start Huntington gene therapy trial

pharmaphorum

In June, uniQure reported 12-month data with AMT-130 that backed its safety – an important consideration for AAV-based gene therapies in light of recent safety signals – but has yet to report any efficacy data. “Importantly, BV-101 does not affect the levels of normal huntingtin protein in cells,” she added.

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First AI-generated small molecule drug enters Phase II trial

European Pharmaceutical Review

Initiating Phase II trials for an AI-generated drug The Phase II study will assess the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and preliminary efficacy of 12-week oral INS018_055 dosage in subjects with the rare lung disease idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Patients will be divided into four parallel cohorts.

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Could acoziborole eliminate sleeping sickness in Africa?

European Pharmaceutical Review

Between 2016 and 2019, DNDi and its partners led an open-label, Phase II/III study to assess the safety and efficacy of acoziborole in patients with early- and late-stage g-HAT. The study demonstrated acoziborole has a favourable safety profile, with no significant drug-related safety signals reported.

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Will Novartis provide new oral option for chronic hives?

European Pharmaceutical Review

While injectable biologic therapies are an effective option for CSU that is uncontrolled by these drugs, less than 20 percent of patients worldwide are treated with them, according to a 2016 British Journal of Dermatology paper and research shared by Novartis. The post Will Novartis provide new oral option for chronic hives?

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