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Tamibarotene Fails in Phase III Trial for a Subset of Higher-Risk MDS

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Syros Pharmaceuticals announced that its cancer drug tamibarotene failed to meet its primary endpoint in the SELECT-MDS-1 Phase III trial. The placebo-controlled SELECT-MDS-1 trial involved 190 patients with complete response rate (CRR) being the study’s primary endpoint. percent and 18.8

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Merck’s Next-Generation Pneumonia Vaccine Gets FDA Approval

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Merck has scored US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its next-generation pneumonia vaccine Vaxneuvance that covers 15 different strains of the pneumococcal bacteria that causes the infection. This is why Pfizer’s Prevnar 13 has dominated the pneumonia vaccine space for more than a decade.

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Pfizer, BioNTech file for FDA approval of COVID booster shot

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Pfizer and BioNTech have formally asked for FDA approval of a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b2 in people aged over 16, as the US prepares to get its booster campaign underway. The post Pfizer, BioNTech file for FDA approval of COVID booster shot appeared first on.

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AstraZeneca’s Immunotherapy Imjudo (tremelimumab) Wins FDA Approval for Liver Cancer

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The FDA clearance is the first for tremelimumab, which faced an uphill battle after having suffered several failures in trials for other cancer types over the past two decades of its development, including non-small cell lung cancer, head and neck cancer and bladder cancer.

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Celltrion’s Steqeyma Approved as Stelara Biosimilar for Psoriasis

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Celltrions Steqeyma (ustekinumab-stba), a biosimilar to Stelara (ustekinumab), for the treatment of several immune-mediated diseases. By blocking these inflammatory pathways, it helps manage overactive immune responses in conditions like psoriasis and Crohns disease.

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Merck’s Capvaxive Wins FDA Approval as First Pneumonia Vaccine Designed for Adults

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These numbers do not reflect the efficacies of the vaccines, which have not been compared head-to-head in any trial yet. Capvaxive received accelerated approval, which means Merck will have to verify its clinical benefit in a confirmatory trial. The vaccine has done well in a Phase II trial against the Pfizer vaccine.

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Talvey Becomes J&J’s Second Multiple Myeloma Bispecific to Score FDA Approval

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The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson announced that its bispecific antibody Talvey (talquetamab-tgvs) received US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval as a fifth-line treatment for adult patients with heavily pretreated multiple myeloma.