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Pfizer Stops Work on Oral GLP-1 Obesity Drug After Safety Signal Surfaces in Clinical Trial

MedCity News

Pfizer said a patient dosed with danuglipron developed potential drug-induced liver injury. Pfizer is stopping further work on this program, a move that comes nearly two years after it discontinued development of a different obesity drug due to liver safety signals in a clinical trial.

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Neurogene Gene Therapy Shows Signs of Efficacy in Small Study, But an Adverse Event Spooks Investors

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Neurogene’s Rett syndrome gene therapy has preliminary data supporting safety and efficacy of the one-time treatment. But a late-breaking report of a serious complication in a patient who received the high dose sent shares of the biotech downward.

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FDA Calls for New Safety Warning for the Class of CAR T Cancer Therapies

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Two months after announcing an inquiry into reports of new cancers in patients treated with CAR T-cell therapies, the FDA is directing makers of these therapies to add new safety warnings to product labels describing this risk. Companies have 30 calendar days to comply.

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How Risk-Based Quality Management Improves Data Quality, Patient Safety, Accelerating Drug Development

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Risk-based quality management, or RBQM, is the process by which pharmaceutical organizations monitor and manage quality throughout clinical trials.

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New mass spectrometry Chapter could “revolutionise” biopharma quality assurance

European Pharmaceutical Review

It is an industry-wide challenge to control [host cell proteins] HCPs to ensure the safety and quality of biopharmaceutical products” stated Derrick Zhang , Senior Scientist, US Pharmacopeia. This follows an announcement by USP about its intent to revise General Chapter <1132.1>

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Gene therapy is saving lives; There are still key challenges to realize its full potential

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Gene therapy can offer hope to patients with previously untreatable diseases, but there’s more work to be done to improve both the safety and efficacy of this therapeutic modality.

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Liver injury leads FDA to pause Sanofi’s tests of MS drug acquired in $3.7B deal

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The FDA placed a partial clinical hold on late-stage tests of Sanofi multiple sclerosis drug tolebrutinib after some patients developed drug-induced liver injury. tests are paused, Sanofi said clinical testing in other countries is continuing with additional safety monitoring.

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