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Can gene therapies for haemophilia defend their high price tags?

Pharmaceutical Technology

Despite their potential multi-million-dollar sticker price, if haemophilia treatments by BioMarin and CSL Behring prove durable, they could help patients save money compared to current treatments, experts note. The program was put on hold in December 2020 following a patient report, but this was lifted in April 2021. million price tag.

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Grand Rounds July 22, 2022: ACTIV-6: 1-Year Later and Trial Results for Ivermectin-400 and Inhaled Fluticasone (Susanna Naggie, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

ACTIV, ACTIV-6, COVID-19, Ivermectin, Inhaled Fluticasone. The key clinical questions of the ACTIV-6 study are: how to help someone feel better faster with newly diagnosed mild-moderate COVID-19 and how to prevent hospitalizations or death in someone with newly diagnosed mild-moderate COVID-19? Learn more about ACTIV-6.

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Grand Rounds July 15, 2022: Overview of Accelerating COVID-19 Therapeutic Interventions and Vaccines (ACTIV) Public-Private Partnership and Lessons Learned (Stacey J. Adam, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

ACTIV, COVID-19, FNIH. ACTIV was stood up in about a month, launching on April 17, 2020, to develop a coordinated research response to speed COVID-19 treatment and vaccine options. There were four ACTIV fast-track focus areas: vaccines, preclinical, clinical trial capacity, and therapeutics – clinical. Foundation for the NIH.

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Grand Rounds August 25, 2023: Pragmatic Trial of an EHR Application to Display Real-time PRO Data: Successes and Challenges (Gabriela Schmajuk, MD, MS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

   Speaker Gabriela Schmajuk, MD, MS Professor of Medicine UCSF and the San Francisco VA Slides Keywords Patient-Reported Outcomes, Rheumatoid Arthritis, EHR Key Points Clinicians rely on patient-related outcomes (PROs) to track disease and function over time in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

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Grand Rounds December 2, 2022: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Mobile Health Intervention in Heart Failure and Diabetes: Lessons Learned (G. Michael Felker, MD, MHS)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

This study asks how can we better facilitate health behaviors in patients with chronic diseases and can we leverage technology? that focused on patients with heart failure and diabetes, two rapidly growing conditions that are highly morbid. The focus of the study was on physical activity and medication adherence.

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Grand Rounds September 29, 2023: Navigating the Use of Patient-Reported Outcomes in Research and Practice: The PROTEUS Consortium (Claire Snyder, PhD; Norah Crossnohere, PhD; Anne Schuster, PhD)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

The PROTEUS Consortium’s objective is to ensure that patients, clinicians, and other decision-makers have high-quality PRO data from clinical trials and clinical practice to make the best decisions they can about treatment options. In our research, we learned that patients actively do not want to see error bars and P values on graphs.

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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. EVOLVE-MI is enrolling 4,000 patients in 3 countries. So far EVOLVE-MI’s early experience in the trial has been that nearly every site enrolled a patient within days of activation.

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