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FDA declines Eli Lilly’s bowel disease drug over manufacturing issues

Pharmafile

However, concerns weren’t expressed over the clinical data package, safety or label for the medicine. Mirikizumab was hoped to become a new drug treatment for ulcerative colitis (UC), a condition where abnormal reactions in the immune system cause inflammation in the inner lining of the colon. read more

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Off-label Use

RX Note

In fact, off-label drug uses can become widely entrenched in clinical practice and become predominant treatments for a given clinical condition. In a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine , off-label use lacking strong scientific evidence had a higher adverse drug event rate compared with on-label use.

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AC Immune claims half a win for tau drug in Alzheimer’s trial

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Shares in AC Immune leaped today after the company said its tau-targeting Alzheimer’s disease candidate semorinemab hit one of its objectives in a phase 2 trial, although it missed another. AC Immune has a lot riding on the tau hypothesis.

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E.U. Regulator Argues to Continue J&J Vaccine With a Warning Label

NY Times

The European Union’s drug regulator said that the Johnson and Johnson vaccine should carry a warning of potential risk for rare blood clots on the label, but did not recommend stopping the vaccine, saying the benefits of the vaccine outweighed the risks.

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FDA adds warning of rare neurological side effect to J&J COVID jab

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The change to the vaccine’s emergency use authorisation (EUA) label comes after around 100 cases of Guillain-Barré were detected in recipients after 12.8 J&J requested the change to the label, which was confirmed in a letter to its Janssen Biotech subsidiary from the FDA yesterday.

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Analytical platform could advance mRNA medicine QC

European Pharmaceutical Review

This is like antigens which can trigger an immune response and act as a vaccine. Firstly, using liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry, they carry out a systematic comparison of different fragments of a mRNA molecule to be tested with a similarly fragmented reference mRNA labelled with a stable carbon isotope.

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Cancer vaccines: providing the edge in oncology

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Using a vaccine to utilise the patient’s own immune system to fight cancer is particularly attractive because of the targeted approach made possible by this technology. While therapeutic cancer vaccines are able to help the body identify particular proteins expressed by cancer cells and then to instigate an immune response.

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