Express Pharma

JUNE 20, 2023

The vaccine efforts of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted our knowledge about gaps in the immune system. Reductionist systems, such as genetically identical inbred mice, have long been the choice for immunology research, which focuses on studying the cells, tissues, and organs that make up the immune system.

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World Pharma News

APRIL 11, 2023

A research team led by the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) with members from Duke-NUS Medical School, KK Women and Children’s Hospital, A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN), the University of Southampton and the Alan Turing Institute, has discovered how cancer evades the immune system and metastasises in the body, and explores how to (..)

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A trial of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has shown the jab produces an immune response, although the study was too small to produce conclusive findings, particularly on safety. For our vaccine, we use two different adenovirus vectors in a bid to avoid the immune system becoming immune to the vector.”.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JANUARY 17, 2023

Spain’s Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre researchers, along with the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute, have developed a new cell therapy based on STAb cells to treat a type of leukaemia. The post Hospital Universitario and Josep Carreras develop cell therapy for leukaemia appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.

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Pharma Times

JANUARY 5, 2024

Vd1-gd T cells were effective in predicting positive responses to ICI therapy

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World Pharma News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Immune cells are capable of detecting infections just like a sniffer dog, using special sensors known as Toll-like receptors, or TLRs for short. In a recent study, researchers from the University of Bonn and the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) used an innovative method to answer these questions.

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World Pharma News

MARCH 19, 2024

A new cancer treatment that uses a person’s own immune cells has been approved by the U.S. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for treating the most dangerous type of skin cancer. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC - James).

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Outsourcing Pharma

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The US agency has launched a large clinical trial to examine the viability of using immune modulators to treat patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

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ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

MARCH 29, 2023

The goal remains to identify infants with bacterial infections in this at-risk cohort of patients while also considering the balance of cost-effectiveness on a population scale and the potential for iatrogenic harm with evaluation such as unnecessary lumbar punctures, unnecessary antibiotics, and unnecessary hospitalization. No LP needed.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

University Hospital Erlangen in Germany is the first in the world to use chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells to successfully treat a patient suffering from a severe case of muscle inflammation (myositis). The researchers modified the patients’ own immune cells.

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Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In this episode, I’ll discuss why hypokalemia can result from digoxin immune fab fragment administration. With the administration of antidote therapy with digoxin immune fab fragments, the function of the sodium-potassium ATPase pump is restored.

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Pharmacy Joe

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In this episode, I’ll discuss why hypokalemia can result from digoxin immune fab fragment administration. With the administration of antidote therapy with digoxin immune fab fragments, the function of the sodium-potassium ATPase pump is restored.

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World Pharma News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This leads to the formation of new mRNA transcripts and also new proteins, as scientists from the German Cancer Research Center and the University Hospital Tübingen have now published. These "therapy-induced epitopes" could help the immune system recognize cancer cells.

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RX Note

AUGUST 4, 2023

What can I expect once I entered hospital provisional registered pharmacist training? In most hospitals, you first introduction to your workplace is through an induction period during which you are shown many different areas and meet many new people. What is the career pathway of a government hospital pharmacist?

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NY Times

AUGUST 3, 2021

The Food and Drug Administration’s move is expected to kick off more vaccination mandates for hospital workers, college students and federal troops.

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Express Pharma

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Their research, conducted in collaboration with scientists from Dayanand Medical College and Hospital in Punjab and the CSIR-Institute for Himalayan Bioresource Technology in Himachal Pradesh, presents a novel, faster, and more effective approach to producing vaccines for challenging infectious diseases.

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World Pharma News

APRIL 10, 2024

Jude Children's Research Hospital, University of Houston, Tufts University School of Medicine and Fox Chase Cancer Center created a drug that can prevent flu-induced lung injury. In a mouse model, the drug achieves a novel balance between shutting down runaway inflammation and allowing the immune system to stop the virus.

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World Pharma News

MAY 20, 2024

A team led by investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, used a new drug to save the life of a patient with immune thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (iTTP), a rare disorder characterized by uncontrolled clotting throughout the small blood vessels.

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World Pharma News

JUNE 17, 2024

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, have developed a new nanomedicine therapy that delivers anticancer drugs to lung cancer cells and enhances the immune system's ability to fight cancer.

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World Pharma News

MAY 23, 2023

Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center studied the structure and function of a transporter involved in cancer and immunity. Scientists at St. They captured six structures of the transporter, including when it was bound to an inhibitor, providing unprecedented insight into how it works.

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Pharmacy Is Right For Me

AUGUST 26, 2024

You may think of a clinical pharmacist working in a community pharmacy or a hospital pharmacist working in an in-patient unit. Pharmacogenomic researchers discovered a genetic variant in the immune system that causes this life-threatening allergic reaction to Abacavir. What is your first thought when you think of a career in pharmacy?

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World Pharma News

MAY 9, 2024

Researchers at MIT, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School have developed a potential new treatment for alopecia areata, an autoimmune disorder that causes hair loss and affects people of all ages, including children. For most patients with this type of hair loss, there is no effective treatment.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 26, 2021

Novartis has said that its investment in digital technology has helped it to ride out the worst of the pandemic, although sales of some of its newly-launched products have been affected by a fall in prescriptions and hospital visits. billion and profits growing 2% to just over $3 billion.

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Pharmacy Joe

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

In this episode, I’ll discuss why hypokalemia can result from digoxin immune fab fragment administration. With the administration of antidote therapy with digoxin immune fab fragments, the function of the sodium-potassium ATPase pump is restored.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

With the results in hand, the developers of the therapy – from the Netherlands Cancer Institute and Norway’s National Center for Cancer Immune Therapy – say they now intend to file for regulatory approvals in Europe before the end of the year, without a commercial partner “to try to ensure that it remains affordable.”

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The latest case was recorded in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal and involved a 25 year-old man with no known immune disorders or underlying conditions. Although the authors said further research was needed, they said the findings suggested previous exposure may not confer immunity and that people should comply with control measures.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JANUARY 4, 2024

Immunotherapy drugs like teclistamab can result in potentially fatal side effects, including CRS and immune cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS). An overactive immune response [is] the hallmark of CRS,” Landgren added. The drug tocilizumab for example, has been used historically to treat CRS from immunotherapies.

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World Pharma News

JULY 6, 2023

New insights explaining why some children have a longer remission than others after having cutting-edge CAR T-cell therapy for leukaemia have been revealed by researchers at UCL, Great Ormond Street Hospital, and the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

RECOVERY (Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY) trial is being conducted in NHS hospitals and has already demonstrated the benefits of dexamethasone as a treatment for COVID-19, showing the cheap steroid cut recovery times and reduced mortality.

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Board Vitals - Pharmacist

JANUARY 11, 2024

Here are some of their stories: Forty-eight years ago, in 1976, a pediatric patient was admitted to Hammersmith Hospital, London. Luckily, an on-duty hospital nurse had read bestselling mystery writer Agatha Christie’s 1961 novel, “The Pale Horse.” Oh, and you want a nice cold Coca Cola with your medical history here?

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Pharmacy Joe

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The most common causes of acute liver failure were: viral hepatitis, drug-induced (but not from acetaminophen), auto-immune hepatitis and cause indeterminate. Treatment also was responsible for a lower length of hospital stay when compared to control. The relative risk in favor of treatment was 0.56.

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World Pharma News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Researchers at Karolinska Institutet and the Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital in Sweden have determined how children's immune systems react to different kinds of cancer depending on their age.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

JULY 13, 2023

The field of immunotherapy is constantly evolving with the ultimate goal to develop new treatments that help the body’s immune system fight cancer. Immune cells, such as T cells and natural killer (NK) cells, have the inherent ability to combat diseases, including cancer, but are often inhibited by the body’s own suppressive mechanisms.

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World Pharma News

MARCH 25, 2025

Among other functions, the NK cells (Natural Killers, a type of lymphocyte forming part of the immune system) have the capacity to detect and eliminate cancer cells. But in some cases they cannot overcome the tumours defense mechanism and the cancer grows.

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NY Times

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The study found that the shots’ effectiveness in preventing hospitalization fell to 77 percent from 91 percent four months after full vaccination.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Positive results from the first global study for chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-antologous T cell (BCMA CAR T) injection (Equecabtagene Autoleucel) in immune-mediated necrotising myopathy (IMNM), suggest that the cell therapy could provide a new therapeutic option for antibody-mediated autoimmune disorders.

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NY Times

AUGUST 23, 2021

The move was expected to kick off a round of new vaccination mandates from hospitals, schools and private companies.

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