What You Need to Know About the FDA’s Approval of Opdivo-Yervoy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma – Curetoday.com

The Food and Drug Administration approved the dual immunotherapy of Opdivo and Yervoy for the treatment of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma. Heres what you need to know. This is the only dual immunotherapy approved by the FDA in this setting of patients with HCC and was based on the results of the phase 1/2 CheckMate-040 trial

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COVID-19 Tips for Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes and Acute Myeloid Leukemia – Curetoday.com

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a unique challenge for patients with myelodysplastic syndromes and acute myeloid leukemia, creating many questions that experts tried to answer in a recent webinar from The Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation. The Aplastic Anemia and MDS International Foundation (AAMDSIF) recently hosted a webinar to address the questions of this patient population by connecting them with Dr. Gail J.

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Mesoblast’s remestemcel-L receives FDA IND clearance for treating COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress – Small Caps

Regenerative medicine company Mesoblast (ASX: MSB) has received US Food and Drug Administration Investigational New Drug (IND) clearance for its remestemcel-L treatment to be used in COVID-19 patients presenting with acute respiratory distress syndrome. According to Mesoblast chief medical officer Dr Fred Grossman, the FDA IND approval now enables US-based COVID-19 patients with poor prognosis to be treated with remestemcel-L under compassionate usage grounds and in a planned randomised controlled trial.

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Column: Scientific advancements in the time of COVID-19 and what they offer us – The Daily Tar Heel

The coronavirus, otherwise known as COVID-19, has dramatically transformed the lives of people around the globe. It has decimated economies, overwhelmed health care systems and affected families in unimaginable ways. However, in spite of the havoc that it has caused, COVID-19 has furthered our understanding of pandemic control beyond anything that we've known before

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Metrion Biosciences and International Scientific Consortium Publish Data and New Recommendations for in Vitro Risk Assessment of the Cardiac Safety of…

CAMBRIDGE, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Metrion Biosciences Limited (Metrion), the specialist ion channel CRO and drug discovery company, today announced it has contributed to two new peer-reviewed papers under the U.S. Food and Drug Administrations (FDA) CiPA (Comprehensive in vitro Proarrhythmia Assay) initiative

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Symtomax: the science behind producing high quality medical cannabis – Health Europa

Indeed, such research has enabled consumers to look beyond the assumption that all forms of cannabis will make them high an assumption attributed to tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive compound within the cannabis plant. Now, non-psychoactive compounds such as Cannabidiol (CBD) are starting to enter consumer markets in a variety of products such as vapes, edibles, and dietary supplements. However, the cannabis plant (Cannabis Sativa), has not solely been used for recreational purposes.

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Leukapheresis Market Is Booming Worldwide | Asahi Kasei Medical Co. Ltd, Haemonetics Corporation, Terumo BCT Inc., STEMCELL Technologies Inc. -…

The Leukapheresis market research report is required to show a gigantic development inside the upcoming years. The investigators likewise have dissected downsides with on-going Organic Semiconductor patterns and in this manner the open doors that are giving to the expanded development of the business. The report gives the viewpoint of this aggressive scene of worldwide markets.

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