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Post-approval R&D key in advancing oncology treatments

European Pharmaceutical Review

A new report from the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) has highlighted the importance of post-approval R&D in advancing oncology treatment options and delivering unprecedented progress over the past ten years. This therefore broadens the population of patients who may benefit.

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Pharma, patient advocates clash over Inflation Reduction Act

Pharmaceutical Technology

Merith Basey, the executive director of the advocacy group Patients for Affordable Drugs, said that CMS’s lack of negotiating power is a key reason that US patients pay up to four times as much for drugs as patients in other countries.

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2022 in review: Regulation starts to catch up with AI in pharma

Pharmaceutical Technology

In pharmaceutical research, this may help secure the privacy of patient data used by AI systems and decrease bias due to ethnicity, sex and other factors. FDA and EMA action.

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Primate models in pharma: What the future holds

Pharmaceutical Technology

Pharmaceutical research has long relied on non-human primate models for early-stage discoveries, but their use continues to cause controversy. Globally, non-human primates make up a relatively small percentage of the animals used in research. The ABPI points to the FDA in the US as an example.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Targeting toxic species of Abeta, such as multimers (with aducanumab and lecanemab) or pyroglutamate Abeta3-42 (with donanemab), induced significant removal of Abeta plaque load in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, leading to the delay in cognitive decline. Treatment with the mAbs delayed cognitive decline by 2.6 months for lecanemab and 5.5