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NICE backs Aimmune’s peanut allergy drug Palforzia for children

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Children in England with peanut allergies could be among the first in Europe to get access to Aimmune’s oral immunotherapy Palforzia, after the drugmaker agreed a supply deal with NHS England. billion last year, is also developing immunotherapies for other indications including egg and multi-tree nut allergies.

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No drugs for prions: could new approaches alleviate therapeutic scarcity?

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As per the prevailing prion theory, a misfolded version of a normal cell-surface protein acts as the chief infectious agent. According to GlobalData’s Pharma Intelligence Center, there are only six drugs in active development for CJD, of which only one has been in clinical trials. And then comes the question of the right target.

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HIV vaccines suffer setbacks but new approaches could turn the tide

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Only a few weeks into the new year, the prospect of getting a successful advanced HIV vaccine shrank after the discontinuation of yet another late-stage trial. This marks the second time one of Janssen’s HIV vaccines failed after another showed disappointing results in the Phase IIb Imbokodo trial in August 2021.

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The Lancet Respiratory Medicine: Clinical trial finds inhaled immune response protein increases odds of recovery for hospitalised COVID-19 patients

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Inhaled delivery of a formulation of a key protein involved in the immune response – interferon beta-1a – to hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the UK reduced the odds that they would develop severe disease or die from SARS CoV-2 infection.

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2022 in review: Drug development milestones for tropical diseases

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Spearheaded by collaborations between non-profit groups and pharma players, new treatments are edging closer to late-stage trials in malaria and neglected tropical diseases such as sleeping sickness. However, Mosquirix’s efficacy is limited, while results from a Phase III licensure trial of R21 are expected this year.

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DBV craters on FDA’s peanut allergy immunotherapy rejection

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DBV Technologies’ long and tortuous path to an FDA verdict on its Viaskin Peanut allergy shot has led to another dead end. DBV says it plans to request a meeting with the FDA to discuss its comments in the CRL as well, as that may be needed in another clinical trial to support another refiling. “We

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Pfizer signs deal with Gilead to manufacture COVID-19 antiviral remdesivir

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Earlier this week the US-government backed National Institutes of Health begun a trial testing remdesivir in combination with interferon beta-1a – Merck KGaA’s Rebif – against COVID-19. This is the third iteration of the ACTT trial. Interferon beta has both antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties.