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Thyroid Awareness Month 2024: Increasing Awareness and Exploring New Treatments for Thyroid Diseases

XTalks

The thyroid plays a critical role in the body by producing hormones that regulate metabolism, heart rate and body temperature among others. Women are five to eight times more likely than men to experience thyroid conditions, with one in eight women likely to develop thyroid issues during their lifetime.

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Could an Antibody Drug Help You Shed Pounds?

The Pharma Data

2, 2020 — An experimental antibody drug that targets one of the body’s key metabolism regulators may help obese people lose weight — at least briefly. That’s one finding from an early study that tested the injection drug, which mimics the effects of a natural hormone called fibroblast growth factor 21 (FGF21).

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Buparlisib hydrochloride by Adlai Nortye Biopharma for Mantle Cell Lymphoma: Likelihood of Approval

Pharmaceutical Technology

Buparlisib hydrochloride is under clinical development by Adlai Nortye Biopharma and currently in Phase II for Mantle Cell Lymphoma. GlobalData tracks drug-specific phase transition and likelihood of approval scores, in addition to indication benchmarks based off 18 years of historical drug development data.

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Patient Safety and Radiopharmaceuticals Administration: Minimizing Radiation Exposure and Risks

Worldwide Clinical Trials

With radiopharmaceuticals emerging as a diagnostic and therapeutic (theranostics) procedure, many are in the clinical development pipeline and are expected to play a crucial role in the future of healthcare. Pregnancy : Radiation exposure during pregnancy can potentially harm the developing fetus.

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AstraZeneca-Daiichi Sankyo’s breast cancer ADC gets FDA priority review

Pharmaceutical Technology

AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo have received Priority Review for their supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), Enhertu (trastuzumab deruxtecan), to treat unresectable or metastatic HER2-low breast cancer in adults.

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SABCS: New ADC from AZ and Daiichi shows promise in breast cancer

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AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) Enhertu is already making waves in breast cancer, and clinical results presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) suggest they may see success with a second. The post SABCS: New ADC from AZ and Daiichi shows promise in breast cancer appeared first on.

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Merck & Co signs multi-billion cancer drug development deal with Seattle Genetics

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Merck & Co has signed a multi-billion cancer drug development deal, which will see it investing $1 billion in partner Seattle Genetics. US-based Merck, known as MSD outside North America, will globally develop and market Seattle’s investigational antibody-drug conjugate (ladiratuzumab vedotin).