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FDA approves Roche’s Evrysdi for use in babies under two months with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA)

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The approval is based on interim efficacy and safety data from the RAINBOWFISH study in newborns, which showed that the majority of pre-symptomatic babies treated with Evrysdi achieved key milestones such as sitting and standing with half walking after 12 months of treatment. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

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Twin Firsts for Tecelra — First Engineered Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors and First New Treatment in a Decade for Synovial Sarcoma

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Tecelra works by using the patient’s own immune system to target tumors expressing the melanoma-associated antigen A4 (MAGE-A4) protein on cancer cells. Tecelra’s approval was based on results from the SPEARHEAD-1 clinical trial, which have been published in The Lancet. The trial showed a 43 percent response rate with 4.5

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Top 10 Medical Device Companies in 2023 by Revenue Statistics and Trends

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Medtronic’s proactive stance towards R&D is evident from the over 230 clinical trials it conducted and the more than 200 regulatory approvals it received in the US, Europe, Japan and China in the 2022 fiscal year. Join us as we explore the inspiring journey and significant contributions of these top 10 medical device companies.

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CytoDel Announces Pre-Clinical Data on Cyto-111 as Antidote to Botulinum Neurotoxin (BoNT) Published in Science Translational Medicine

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Following in vitro validation of therapeutic mechanisms, efficacy studies were conducted in mice, guinea pigs and rhesus macaque monkeys. In particular, the presynaptic localization of LC suggests this therapeutic approach will be particularly effective in treating synaptopathies involving active zone proteins.

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Roche’s Early Alzheimer’s Blood Test Gets FDA Breakthrough Device Designation

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The Elecsys pTau217 assay is designed to detect amyloid pathology, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, by measuring phosphorylated tau protein in human plasma. There are currently no FDA-authorized blood tests for detecting Alzheimer’s disease.

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New data further reinforce Roche’s OCREVUS (ocrelizumab) as a highly effective treatment for people with multiple sclerosis

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OCREVUS is the first and only treatment approved for both relapsing MS (RMS) and primary progressive MS (PPMS) and now more than 170,000 people have been treated with OCREVUS globally in clinical trial and real-world settings; favourable benefit-risk profile remains consistent over 7 years. Separate data from a U.S. and more than 2.3

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Using bispecific antibodies to advance cancer immunotherapy

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Clinical interest in bsAbs gained momentum following the promising data and market success of blinatumomab (BLINCYTO®, Amgen), a fragment-based bispecific T cell engager (BiTE), which first received FDA approval in 2014 and EMA approval in 2015. Simplified schematic overview of the proposed mechanisms of action for bsAbs.