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

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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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EU gives narrower label to Apellis, Sobi’s PNH drug

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Apellis Pharma and partner Sobi have won EU approval for their paroxysmal nocturnal haemoglobinuria (PNH) drug pegcetacoplan in Europe, with a more restricted label than in the US. The post EU gives narrower label to Apellis, Sobi’s PNH drug appeared first on.

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Merck acquires Prometheus Biosciences

Express Pharma

Prometheus is a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering a precision medicine approach for the discovery, development, and commercialisation of novel therapeutic and companion diagnostic products for the treatment of immune-mediated diseases.

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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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EMA panel probes heart inflammation with Pfizer/BioNTech COVID vaccine

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An update on the Janssen jab at the PRAC’s latest meeting concluded that the benefits of the vaccine in preventing COVID-19 outweigh the risks of side effects, but its labelling will be updated to recommended increased vigilance in people with thrombocytopenia and a recent history of blood clots.

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Current and future players in the lupus market

Pharmaceutical Technology

The management of SLE and LN consists largely of treatment options that are based on highly efficacious steroids or immune-suppressive therapy with an undesirable safety profile, which includes accrued organ damage, infections and cancer. in 2018 across the 7MM despite being an off-label therapy for lupus.

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