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Gilead wins patent battle with US government over HIV PrEP drugs

Pharmaceutical Technology

According to the US government, Gilead had repeatedly refused to license patents related to PrEP research undertaken by the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While both Descovy and Truvada contain emtricitabine, they feature different forms of the antiviral tenofovir.

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ChatGPT can (almost) pass the US Medical Licensing Exam

Medical Xpress

ChatGPT can score at or around the approximately 60% passing threshold for the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE), with responses that make coherent, internal sense and contain frequent insights, according to a study published February 9, 2023, in the open-access journal PLOS Digital Health by Tiffany Kung, Victor Tseng, and colleagues at (..)

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India’s Hetero receives WHO approval for Nirmacom to treat Covid-19

Pharmaceutical Technology

Hetero’s Nirmacom combi-pack will contain nirmatrelvir 150 mg (two tablets) and ritonavir 100mg (one tablet). The company has signed a non-exclusive voluntary licensing agreement with Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) to produce and sell nirmatrelvir in LMICs.

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Syncromune and Eucure enter antibody licence deal

Pharmaceutical Technology

According to the deal, the worldwide rights for developing and marketing intratumoral combination treatment containing Eucure’s YH002 and two additional active ingredients of the Syncrovax therapy will be acquired by Syncromune.

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Meningitis vaccine comes to the forefront with impressive study results

Pharmaceutical Technology

The response was more powerful than that generated by MenACWY-D – a licensed quadrivalent meningococcal vaccine marketed by GSK. The trial, conducted in 1,800 healthy individuals ranging from ages 2-29 years in Mali and The Gambia in 2021, found NmCV-5 induced a strong immune response across five strains of meningococcal bacteria.

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Codeine over the counter – 17 OTC products

Druggist

Without a doubt, codeine-containing products are one of the most commonly sold medicines in the UK. Restrictions on the supply of codeine-containing products. The main focus of this post is to introduce the most common over the counter codeine-containing products in the UK and review their codeine content.

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CSL doses first patient with haemophilia B gene therapy Hemgenix

Pharmaceutical Technology

Hemgenix works by dosing a patient with an engineered adeno-associated virus (AAV), containing the gene responsible for producing a protein called factor IX. Already a big player in haemophilia treatments, CSL licensed exclusive global rights to Hemgenix from gene therapy developers uniQure back in 2021.