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

World of DTC Marketing

After the CEO departed the sinking ship, new management pinned all their hopes on the Biogen drug for Alzheimer’s. Still, Alzheimer’s is a nasty disease, and people are desperate for treatment even if it only provided a slim chance of partial recovery. Will they follow the science or will they put a price tag on hope?

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Rare Disease Spotlight – tracing the rise of orphan drug designations over almost 40 years

Pharmaceutical Technology

This year has already been eventful when it comes to the development of therapies for rare diseases. Additionally, pricing and access for rare disease therapies continue to be scrutinized closely. Others judge its success based on the fact that 95% of rare diseases still have no available therapies and patient needs remain unmet.

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Grand Rounds January 20, 2023: Collaborative Pragmatic Trials in Action: EVOLVE-MI (Mikhail Kosiborod, MD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Patient recruitment is through a network of sites in different geographic locations managed by a collaboration of AROs. Study participants are managed within health systems in-line with local standard of care. There is little question about the utility of LDL lowering as a means of cardiovascular risk reduction.

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Grand Rounds February 3, 2023: Pragmatic Trials For Children With Congenital Heart Disease – Insights From The NITRIC Trial (Luregn Schlapbach, PhD, FCICM)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

All infants and children less than 2 years of age undergoing open heart surgery on cardiopulmonary bypass were eligible for the study with exclusions for diseases that implied high severity pre-bypass. There was no prescription of pre-surgical, anesthetic, surgical, perfusion, and ICU management procedures.

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

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This test, which is being co-developed with Eli Lilly, has the potential to facilitate earlier and more accurate detection of the disease. The Elecsys pTau217 assay is designed to detect amyloid pathology, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, by measuring phosphorylated tau protein in human plasma.

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BD partners with Biocorp on connected self-injection devices

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Medtech giant Beckton Dickinson (BD) has signed a deal with France’s Biocorp to use the latter’s near-field communication (NFC) tags in injectable devices. The Injay tag can confirm a complete injection and transfer that information via an NFC reader to a smartphone or tablet for review by a healthcare professional.

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A broad range of unmet needs remains in the immuno-oncology space

Pharmaceutical Technology

While initially only approved for metastatic disease, ICIs have now moved into earlier disease settings, reducing the risk of disease progression and relapse. IO therapies come with a hefty price tag, with ICI therapies in the US typically exceeding $100,000, while cell therapies can exceed $400,000.