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STAT+: A Supreme Court review of a contentious patent issue would change the way pharma claims discoveries

STAT News

These treatments constitute a highly lucrative market because they are used to help the body fight cancer, infection, and a wide array of other diseases — and often carry considerable price tags. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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How SARS-CoV-2 hijacks human cells to evade immune system

Scienmag

Credit: UC San Diego Health Sciences Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered one way in which SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, hijacks human cell machinery to blunt the immune response, allowing it to establish infection, replicate and cause disease.

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Grand Rounds October 20, 2023: A National Initiative to Eliminate Hepatitis C in the United States – Why This Matters to Clinical Trialists (Rachael L. Fleurence, PhD, MSc; Joshua M. Sharfstein, MD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Untreated, chronic Hepatitis C infection leads to liver damage, liver cancer, and death. PCORnet has been an important resource by executing a query to identify the volume of HCV tests conducted by participating health systems and the number of co-infections with Hepatitis B virus. Rates are the highest among 20-39-year-olds.

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WHO update on Omicron

The Pharma Data

1.1.529 a variant of concern, named Omicron, on the advice of WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Virus Evolution (TAG-VE). Severity of disease : It is not yet clear whether infection with Omicron causes more severe disease compared to infections with other variants, including Delta.

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Statement on Omicron sublineage BA.2

The Pharma Data

As part of its on-going work to track variants, WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution ( TAG-VE ) met yesterday to discuss the latest evidence on the Omicron variant of concern, including its sublineages BA.1 2 following infection with BA.1 Reinfection with BA.2 WHO will continue to closely monitor the BA.2

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Targeting a human protein may stop Ebola virus in its tracks

The Pharma Data

To treat Ebola virus infections, researchers are taking a close look at a key piece of the virus: polymerase. Polymerase is a viral protein that directs how Ebola virus replicates its genome as it infects new hosts. Drugs that target polymerase could potentially treat Ebola virus infections and save lives.

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Grand Rounds July 8, 2022: Results From the COVID-OUT Trial, A Phase-3 Trial of Outpatient Treatment for Covid-19 Using Metformin, Ivermectin, and Fluvoxamine (Carolyn Bramante, MD, MPH; Thomas Murray, PhD; Jared Huling, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Trial participants were adults ages 30-85, who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 within 3 days, with fewer than 7 days of symptoms, no known prior infection with SARS-CoV-2, no severe kidney, liver, or heart failure. We also kept equal focus on follow-up. Learn more about COVID-OUT. pctGR, @Collaboratory1.

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