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CluePoints launches Medical & Safety Review (MSR) software

Risk-based quality management (RBQM) and data quality oversight software company Cluepoints launches its latest application, the medical & safety review (MSR), to simplify and streamline the medical analysis of study data through user-friendly dashboards, data manipulation and cleaning, query management and full transparency over the data history.

10 October 2024UK News
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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine’s CARVYKTI extends OS in multiple myeloma patients

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (formerly Janssen) has announced the long-term phase 3 results from its cartitude-4 study, which evaluated treatment CARVYTKI in patients with relapsed or lenalidomiderefractory multiple myeloma after one prior line of therapy.

10 October 2024Europe
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Hemgenix approved for national reimbursement in Spain

Etranacogene dezaparvovec (hemgenix), the first gene therapy approved in Europe for the treatment of severe and moderately severe haemophilia B in adult patients, has been approved for national reimbursement by the Spanish Interministerial Pricing Commission for Pharmaceuticals (CIPM).

10 October 2024Europe
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First nasal spray for treatment of anaphylaxis approved by FDA

Ars pharmaceuticals has been granted approval by the us food and drug administration (fda) for their epinephrine nasal spray, neffy, to be used as treatment of type 1 allergic reactions including anaphylaxis.

5 September 2024Europe
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FDA approves drug for primary biliary cholangitis

Accelerated approval has been granted for Gilead science’s livdelzi (seladelpar) to treat primary biliary cholangitis (pbc) by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

5 September 2024Europe
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First oral treatment for hormone-sensitive prostate cancer recommended by NICE

Accord healthcare have recently announced that NICE have recommended the first oral androgen deprivation therapy (adt) treatment for hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men across the uk.

5 September 2024UK News
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Verisense announce opening of Digital Biobank

This month, Verisense have announced that their digital biobank, with data from over one million people, is open for business.

5 September 2024UK News
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Positive results announced for Levicept’s moderate-to-severe osteoarthritis treatment

Biotechnology company Levicept has announced positive results from its phase 2 trial into levi-04 for the treatment of osteoarthritis.

5 September 2024UK News
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Calliditas Therapeutics announces positive phase 2b data in Primary Biliary Cholangitis trial

Calliditas therapeutics ab has recently announced that the phase 2b transform trial met its primary endpoint. The trial showed statistically significant improvement in alkaline phosphatase (alp) for both doses tested versus placebo. the trial evaluated setanaxib, a nox enzyme inhibitor, in patients with primary biliary cholangitis (pbc) and elevated liver stiffness.

5 September 2024UK News
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CHMP gives positive opinion for Merck’s KEYTRUDA for unresectable or metastatic urothelial carcinoma

Merck (known as MSDoutside of the US and Canada) has announced that its anti-pd-1 therapy, in combination with padcev (enfortuman vedotin-ejfv), has received a positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA)

5 September 2024UK News
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Clinical trials for personalised cancer vaccine used to tackle aggressive brain tumours in young

Researchers at the UCLA Health jonsson comprehensive cancer center have announced that they are launching a first-of-its-kind clinical trial to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of a cancer vaccine. The vaccine targets h3 g34-mutant diffuse hemispheric glioma, an aggressive brain tumour typically found in adolescents and young people.

5 September 2024Europe
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The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence announce technology appraisal guidance

The National Institute for Health and Care excellence (NICE) have recommended adult patients in England or Wales with moderately or severely active ulcerative colitis (uc) who have not responded well to or cannot tolerate conventional or biological therapy including a tumour necrosis factor (tnf) alpha inhibitor the option of skyrizi (risankizumab).

5 September 2024UK News