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STAT+: AbbVie buys Immunogen, maker of targeted cancer drugs, for $10 billion

STAT

Central to the deal, expected to close in the middle of next year, is Elahere, an Immunogen product that won Food and Drug Administration approval for advanced ovarian cancer in 2022.

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Dr. Reddy’s launches Toripalimab under the brand name Zytorvi in India

Express Pharma

The standard of care for RM-NPC in India before Toripalimab was chemotherapy (gemcitabine and cisplatin). Additionally, Toripalimab has also been approved as monotherapy for the treatment of adults with recurrent unresectable or metastatic NPC with disease progression on or after platinum-containing chemotherapy.

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Cancer drug shortages deliver ‘gut punch’ to patients unsure if their survival odds will be undercut

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The first time, her physicians flipped the order of her drug regimen because Taxol (paclitaxel), one of two drugs she was supposed to take, was not available, said McInerney, who was diagnosed in December 2022. Read the rest…

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Novel device opens blood-brain barrier to deliver chemotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) in glioblastoma patients was opened temporarily using a novel, skull-implantable ultrasound device to deliver chemotherapy to the brain in a first in-human trial. Two chemotherapy drugs , paclitaxel and carboplatin were injected intravenously during the four-minute procedure.

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Opinion: STAT+: One way to create resilient drug supply chains: incentivize predictive models

STAT

Nearly 10 years ago, up to 83% of oncologists surveyed could not prescribe a preferred chemotherapy agent due to shortages. At the end of 2022, there were national shortages of 295 medications , including essentials like anesthetics, chemotherapies, and antibiotics. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Drug Formulation In-Depth Focus 2022

European Pharmaceutical Review

Could the new wave of taxane chemotherapies succeed where traditional chemotherapies have failed? The post Drug Formulation In-Depth Focus 2022 appeared first on European Pharmaceutical Review. Solving the taxing problems of taxanes?

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about Medicaid coverage of obesity drugs, a death in a sickle cell trial, and more

STAT

Beam said the patient succumbed to respiratory failure, deemed to be “likely caused” by a regimen of chemotherapy required to prepare the patient for BEAM-101, a treatment that uses the company’s new, more precise form of CRISPR gene editing called base editing. The