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Tackling the complex development landscape of pain medicines

European Pharmaceutical Review

The current medications (opioid and non-opioid) often force the patients to make an unfortunate choice between efficacy and debilitating side effects, leading to a cycling through multiple different therapies and suboptimal treatment response. 2017; 6(S1):1–3. Neuropathic pain: The scope of the problem. Pain and Therapy. Internet] NIH.

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NICE to update endometriosis guidelines to improve diagnosis and surgical management

Pharmaceutical Technology

This marks the first update to NICE’s endometriosis guidelines since 2017, representing a huge milestone for patients and practitioners alike. This delay in diagnosis ultimately leads to disease progression and associated complications, such as chronic pelvic pain and infertility, which greatly affects the patients’ quality of life.

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Early diagnosis in Alzheimer’s disease: A first step towards better care

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The pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s is complex and involves multiple mechanisms, including extracellular deposition of amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and intracellular formation of neurofibrillary tangles (NFT) of tau, causing progressive neuronal loss and atrophy (Counts, 2017). Abbreviations: AD, Alzheimer’s disease; MCI, mild cognitive impairment.

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Novartis drops presbyopia drug acquired with Encore Vision

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The eyedrop formulation of UNR844 (lipoic acid/choline ester chloride) was acquired as part of the group’s buyout of privately-held ophthalmology biotech Encore Vision for $375 million upfront in 2017, and was designed to work by restoring the elasticity of the eye’s lens that declines with age.

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FDA suggests ways to curb constraints with rare disease gene therapy trials

Pharmaceutical Technology

On February 7, at a town hall organised to discuss clinical trial designs for gene therapies, FDA experts pushed pharma players to look for ways to establish clinical effectiveness despite the challenges in recruiting patients with rare diseases.

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Understanding a rare disease through the lens of real world and prevalence data

Clarivate

LHON mutation rate variability affects therapeutic efficacy Most LHON patients carry one of three pathogenic mitochondrial DNA mutations (11778G>A [ND4], 14484T>C [ND6] and 3460G>A [ND1]) known as primary LHON mutations. We identified patients with an LHON diagnosis using ICD-10 and ICD-9 codes H47.2 The Clarivate U.S.

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Regenerative potential: cell?based therapies for heart failure

European Pharmaceutical Review

Pharmacological therapies mainly address symptoms and unfortunately a significant number of patients do not respond adequately, progressing to congestive heart failure and eventually needing a heart transplant. As this is an autologous therapy, there is a lot of patient-to-patient variability. 1 Furthermore, there are 63.3