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Merck and Eisai's Keytruda-Lenvima combo chalks up 2 more losses, this time in non-small cell lung cancer

Fierce Pharma

Merck and Eisai’s Keytruda-Lenvima tag team can’t seem to catch a break. Merck and Eisai’s Keytruda-Lenvima tag team can’t seem to catch a break.

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ICER stands by view on Biogen's Aduhelm, says sharp price cut needed

Bio Pharma Dive

The influential nonprofit maintains that the clinical trial evidence supporting Aduhelm is insufficient to prove a health benefit. But if some efficacy is assumed, ICER argues Biogen's $56,000 price tag is far too high.

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New approach to improving clinical trial enrollment and diversity

Medical Xpress

Before new therapies can reach patients, they must be tested in clinical trials in representative populations to show that they work and are safe. Failure to enroll enough participants in trials can delay the arrival of new therapies in the clinic and inflate their eventual price tags.

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Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug: What’s the price tag on hope?

World of DTC Marketing

The first clinic; trials were everything but encouraging but so much depend ended on this drug’s approval that Biogen returned and recited the data. The other trial failed to reach its goal, though the company was encouraged by data from a subset of study participants who got more of the drug. Washington Post.

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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

Yet enrollment of ethnic minorities in NIH clinical trials and for trials studying approved devices and drugs remains low. There are several strategies that will help increase diversity in CVD trials. Many high school and college students are moving away from the sciences.

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STAT+: The FDA has approved a new Alzheimer’s drug, but wide access may depend on CMS easing restrictions

STAT News

Such decisions are based on myriad factors, starting with the average $26,500 price tag. But there are other considerations, including the quality of the clinical trial data, side effect concerns, the patient population for which the medicine is approved, and budgetary constraints.

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Grand Rounds September 22, 2023: Integrating Community Health Workers into Team-Based, Early Childhood Preventative Care (Tumaini Rucker Coker, MD, MBA)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The Parent-Focused Redesign for Encounters, Newborns to Toddlers (PARENT) study was a randomized controlled trial of PARENT verses usual care for parents with infants 12 months and younger over a 12-month study period. The first year was spent allowing the clinics to make the project their own, with input from parents and clinicians.

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