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Cost of disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis continues to rise in US

Pharmaceutical Technology

While MS is not a terminal diagnosis, the effect of the disease on the CNS can significantly impact patients’ independence and disturb their daily lives. DMTs for MS have a high price tag, particularly in the US. However, they cannot provide a cure and have a very limited impact on halting disease progression.

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Roche’s Early Alzheimer’s Blood Test Gets FDA Breakthrough Device Designation

XTalks

However, Roche has several CSF tests on the market, which include assays in the company’s Elecsys line that are used in conjunction with PET in the diagnosis and monitoring of the disease. We’re excited to help meet the growing need for additional diagnostic tools to enable a timely and accurate diagnosis for people with Alzheimer’s disease.”

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Grand Rounds January 19, 2024: Why Are Imaging RCTs Different? Lessons From Chest Pain Evaluation Trials (Pamela S. Douglas, MD, MACC, FASE, FAHA)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

There is a potential for over testing with significant false positive rate and potential for missed diagnosis with stress imaging. Tags #pctGR, @Collaboratory1 The post Grand Rounds January 19, 2024: Why Are Imaging RCTs Different? Most do not have obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD), but a few are very high risk.

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Grand Rounds December 15, 2023: Diversifying Clinical Trials: A Path Forward (Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, FESC)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

First, increasing diversity among trial participants must be a top priority in order to address health disparities and allow for optimal diagnosis and management of CVD in all. There are several strategies that will help increase diversity in CVD trials. With the current ability to become pregnant this can affect women up to the age of 50.

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First patient dosed with PI3K? inhibitor for solid tumours

Drug Discovery World

Totus uses molecular tags that track drug binding in individual cells to screen billions of drug molecules across thousands of genes in parallel, combined with machine learning techniques.

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Grand Rounds June 16, 2023: BeatPain Utah: Partnering With Community Health Centers Within a Socio-Technical Framework (Julie Fritz, PT, PhD, FAPTA; Guilherme Del Fiol, MD, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

However, persons in low-income and rural communities have significantly higher odds of receiving a prescription opioid for a new back pain diagnosis. Use of nonpharmacologic pain treatments is lower in rural settings and for persons of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity.

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Orphan drugs and where to launch them: The keys to Europe’s forgotten territories

Pharmaceutical Technology

Due to the high price tags associated with these speciality medicines, innovators have naturally favoured big markets with high GDP such as the US and EU-5 (Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the UK). “The Go-to-market strategies. The choice of where to launch an orphan drug is an important and difficult decision.

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