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WHO grants emergency use listing to SK bioscience’s SKYCovione

Pharmaceutical Technology

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has granted an emergency use listing (EUL) to SK bioscience’s Covid-19 vaccine, SKYCovione. SKYCovione is a self-assembled nanoparticle vaccine and the 12th Covid-19 vaccine to receive a EUL from the regulator. Developed using pharmaceutical company GSK’s pandemic adjuvant, the vaccine targets the receptor-binding domain of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.

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First Duchenne gene therapy approved by FDA for young children

Bio Pharma Dive

The conditional clearance for Sarepta’s Elevidys in 4- and 5-year-olds is a milestone for research into the deadly disease, and raises the stakes of an ongoing trial that could prove how well it works.

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Invasive Bacteria May Trigger Endometriosis, Study Suggests

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

A type of bacteria commonly found in human oral and gut flora could play a major role in the development of endometriosis, scientists have discovered – potentially giving us crucial insight into the development of the painful condition, and opening up new ways to treat it.

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How to Leverage Omnichannel & Sales Enablement Technologies for Pharmaceutical Sales Success

Pharma Mirror

In the fast-paced, highly competitive pharmaceutical industry, sales reps must adapt to new ways of engaging with customers and healthcare professionals (HCPs). Two such approaches are through the use of omnichannel and sales enablement technologies, which can revolutionize the way pharmaceutical companies develop their sales force and interact with their stakeholders.

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European Clinical Supply Planning: Balancing Cost, Flexibility and Time

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Psylo signs research deal with Daiichi Sankyo for psychiatric therapies

Pharmaceutical Technology

Psylo and Daiichi Sankyo have signed a sponsored research deal to advance the development of non-hallucinogenic psychiatric therapies.

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UniQure stock tumbles on ‘confusing’ results for Huntington’s gene therapy

Bio Pharma Dive

While treated patients appear to be doing better than history suggests they would, mixed findings involving a key surrogate marker perplexed Wall Street analysts and sent shares falling 38%.

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Transforming Digital Experiences: Viseven and SpotMe Form Strategic Partnership

Pharma Mirror

LAUSANNE, Switzerland – Viseven, a leading global MarTech services provider for the Pharma and Life Sciences industries, is thrilled to announce its partnership with SpotMe, an enterprise event platform tailored to high-touch industries. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in digital communication within the healthcare industry. Driving Success in Pharma Communication The partnership between Viseven and SpotMe creates a unique point of view on the HCP engagement and B2B event organi

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AGEPHA Pharma’s LODOCO gets US FDA approval for cardiovascular disease

Pharmaceutical Technology

AGEPHA Pharma has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for LODOCO (colchicine, 0.5 mg tablet) to treat cardiovascular disease. LODOCO is indicated for reducing the risk of stroke, myocardial infarction and cardiovascular death in adults with established atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) or with multiple risk factors for the disease.

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Sarepta prices Duchenne gene therapy at $3.2M

Bio Pharma Dive

The cost makes Sarepta’s treatment, called Elevidys, among the most expensive medicines in the world. But company executives said they don’t expect significant insurer pushback.

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Night Owls Tend to Die Sooner. But It’s Not Late Bedtimes Killing Them.

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

A large study covering 37 years from start to finish has revealed something about those who tend to stay up late: These night owls are more likely to die at a younger age, but due to smoking and drinking-related causes rather than how late they go to bed.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

White paper that delves into the complex topic of Decentralized Clinical Trials and how to master them within the confines of FDA Regulations

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June 22, 2023: Taunton Paine Discusses New NIH Data Sharing Policy at Annual Steering Committee Meeting

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Taunton Paine, Director of the NIH Scientific Data Sharing Policy Division At the annual NIH Pragmatic Trials Collaboratory Steering Committee meeting in May, we interviewed Taunton Paine, director of the NIH Scientific Data Sharing Policy Division, about the NIH’s new Data Management & Sharing Policy , which took effect in 2023. Under the new policy, all NIH-funded research requires a submission plan that describes how, where, and when data will be shared.

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Catalyst licenses Santhera Pharma’s vamorolone in North America

Pharmaceutical Technology

Santhera Pharmaceuticals and Catalyst Pharmaceuticals have signed an exclusive licence and collaboration deal for Santhera’s vamorolone in the US, Canada and Mexico. Catalyst Pharmaceuticals will gain exclusive rights to commercialise vamorolone across the region. The investigational drug candidate vamorolone has a mode of action based on binding to the same receptor as glucocorticoids while changing its downstream activity.

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Flagship’s latest startup aims to take the guesswork out of small molecule drugs

Bio Pharma Dive

Empress Therapeutics claims its technology allows it to identify chemical drug candidates faster and more reliably. It has $50 million from Flagship to prove it can.

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Special Nasal Drops Could Help The Brain Recover After A Stroke

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Scientists have demonstrated how nasal drops containing a particular molecule can help mice recover from the damaging biological consequences of a stroke – and the hope is that the treatment could eventually be transferred to humans. [link] Crucially, the treatment isn’t applied straight away but is initiated seven days after the stroke.

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How Machine Learning Drives Clinical Trial Efficiency

Clinical trial data management is increasingly challenging as studies grow in complexity. Quickly accessing and analyzing study data is vital for assessing trial progress and patient safety. In this paper, we explore real-time data access and analysis for proactive study management. We investigate using adverse event (AE) data to monitor safety and discuss a clinical analytics platform that supports collaboration and data review workflows.

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June 21, 2023: Results of ICD-Pieces to Be Presented in This Week’s PCT Grand Rounds

Rethinking Clinical Trials

In this Friday’s PCT Grand Rounds, Miguel Vazquez of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and George “Holt” Oliver of the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation will present “Improving Delivery of Care for Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetes, and Hypertension,” including results from the ICD-Pieces Demonstration Project.

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FDA extends review of GSK’s myelofibrosis drug

Pharmaceutical Technology

UK-based pharmaceutical giant GSK has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has extended the review period of its new drug application (NDA) for the rare bone cancer drug momelotinib by three months. The FDA will make an approval decision by the new Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) target action date of 16 September 2023. The reason for this review extension was undisclosed in the announcement.

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Patient death spurs FDA to pause test of Arcellx’s Gilead-partnered cell therapy

Bio Pharma Dive

The company said limitations on "bridging treatment" used to hold cancer in check could be to blame, and is working with the FDA to change the study's protocol.

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Scientists Find Cannabis Compound Inside a Totally Different Plant

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

Scientists have discovered cannabidiol, a compound in cannabis known as CBD, in a common Brazilian plant, opening potential new avenues to produce the increasingly popular substance, a lead researcher said Thursday.

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What the FDA's New Dosage Guidance Means for the Future of Clinical Research

Speaker: Dr. Ben Locwin - Biopharmaceutical Executive & Healthcare Futurist

What will the future hold for clinical research? A recent draft from the FDA provides valuable insight. In "Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases," the FDA notes that "targeted therapies demonstrate different dose-response relationships compared to cytotoxic chemotherapy, such that doses below the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD) may have similar efficacy to the MTD but with fewer toxicities.

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Intercept restructures as Ocaliva's NASH hopes dashed again with FDA rejection

Fierce Pharma

Even after second application attempt, Intercept’s Ocaliva wasn’t the fatty liver disease breakthrough that the company had hoped it would be. | Even after second application attempt, Intercept’s Ocaliva wasn’t the fatty liver disease breakthrough that the company had hoped it would be. Intercept is now swinging into restructuring mode, and the NASH baton passes on to Madrigal Pharma.

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Laurus Labs and IIT Kanpur partner for new gene therapy products

Pharmaceutical Technology

Indian pharmaceutical company Laurus Labs has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) to bring new gene therapy products to the market. The pharma company will in-license a small number of gene therapy products and offer research grants to advance them through pre-clinical development. Laurus Labs will be responsible for launching these products in India and emerging markets.

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Top FDA official overruled review team in approval of Sarepta’s Duchenne gene therapy

Bio Pharma Dive

In a memo made public Friday, Peter Marks, head of the agency office that oversees gene therapies, wrote that he disagreed with other reviewers and saw “compelling” evidence to clear Elevidys.

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CDSCO declares hypertensive drug as spurious

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has said that a joint investigation team of its East Zone office and the State Licensing Authority (SLA) of Sikkim have declared the samples of Glenmark Pharmaceuticals’ blood pressure-lowering drug Telma 40 failed in the quality tests in February, 2023, as spurious.

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Unlocking Excellence: How Catalent Is Transforming Japan’s Clinical Research

Planning on running clinical trials in Japan? How can you reliably supply these studies? Discover Catalent’s clinical supply packaging facility in Shiga, Japan. Strategically located between Tokyo and Osaka, and one of largest in Japan, this 6,000 square meter facility offers comprehensive services including primary and secondary clinical packaging and labelling, comparator sourcing, cold chain storage, local and global distribution, local language support and white glove service to support stud

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Agepha Pharma gets ancient gout remedy colchicine across FDA finish line for heart disease

Fierce Pharma

Used by Egyptians 35 centuries ago as a remedy for inflammation, colchicine was found over the ages to be effective against a variety of maladies including gout, dropsy and familial Mediterranean f | Agepha Pharma, a family-owned company based in Slovakia, has gained an FDA approval for Lodoco, which becomes the first drug to target cardiovascular inflammation.

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Eli Lilly and Boehringer gain FDA approval for type 2 diabetes tablets

Pharmaceutical Technology

Eli Lilly and Boehringer Ingelheim have received approval from the US FDA for Jardiance to treat type 2 diabetes in children

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Medicare has no surprises in planned registry for new Alzheimer’s drugs

Bio Pharma Dive

Ahead of Leqembi’s possible full approval next month, the agency released details emphasizing how the required registry to track patient outcomes will be free and easy to use.

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CDSCO commences daily updation of cough syrup samples submitted in labs to enable time bound testing

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has started carrying daily updates of the number of batches of cough syrup samples submitted with each of the laboratories prior to exports in its website, in order to enable time bound testing and release of reports.

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The New Age of Decentralized Clinical Trials

This new white paper defines and details the impact of Decentralized Clinical Trials on the Pharmaceutical industry and how the impact can be measured along with steps companies can take to ensure adoption.

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With new lawsuits, Novo Nordisk aims to crack down on compounded versions of Ozempic, Wegovy

Fierce Pharma

Three weeks after the FDA warned that some pharmacies are making unauthorized versio | Novo Nordisk filed five lawsuits in four states on Tuesday, charging health spas, clinics and pharmacies with false advertising, trademark infringement and unlawful sales of compounded versions of diabetes and weight loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. Novo also is planning action against other unlawful sellers, the company said.

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Teikoku Pharma bags FDA fast track for post-surgical transdermal analgesic  

Pharmaceutical Technology

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Teikoku Pharma’s dexmedetomidine transdermal system a fast track designation. The delivery candidate, called TPU-006, delivers dexmedetomidine for up to four days. Dexmedetomidine is a common non-opioid analgesic that activates alpha-2 receptors, which inhibits the release of noradrenaline and subsequent propagation of pain signals.

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Cell and gene therapy manufacturing: the next generation of startups

Bio Pharma Dive

Joining larger CDMOs like Lonza and Catalent, a new group of companies aims to capitalize on persistent bottlenecks in producing complex genetic treatments.

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DTAB wants stakeholder’s consultation in DCC on presence of banned antibiotics in food producing animals

AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

The Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB), which advises the Central and State governments on the technical matters related to the drugs regulation and administration, has recommended a stakeholder’s consultation to develop a strategy to address the issue of usage of banned antibiotics in food producing animals, in the wake of the rising trend of rejections […]

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Deliver Fast, Flexible Clinical Trial Insights with Spotfire

Clinical research has entered a new era, one that requires real-time analytics and visualization to allow trial leaders to work collaboratively and to develop, at the click of a mouse, deep insights that enable proactive study management. Learn how Revvity Signals helps drug developers deliver clinical trial data insights in real-time using a fast and flexible data and analytics platform to empower data-driven decision-making.