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The U.S. Food and Drug Admini-stration has approved Selarsdi (ustekinumab-aekn) injection for subcutaneous use, as a biosimilar to Stelara, for the treatment of moderate to severe plaque psoriasis and for active psoriatic arthritis in adults and pediatric patients 6 years and older.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, have identified a specific pattern of autoantibodies in the blood that precedes the clinical onset of multiple sclerosis.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan drug exclusivity for Octapharma’s wilate, von Willebrand factor/coagulation factor VIII complex (human) lyophilized powder for solution for intravenous injection, for routine prophylaxis to reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes in adults and children 6 years of age and older with von Willebrand disease (VWD).
CMS finalized the CMS Interoperability and Prior Authorization Final Rule to improve the electronic exchange of health information and prior authorization processes for medical items and services.
Investigators at the Bern University Hospital conducted a single-center randomized clinical trial to quantify and compare the PVE properties of iso-oncotic 5% albumin, hyper-oncotic 20% albumin and Ringer’s lactate (RL) in patients undergoing radical cystectomy.
The Phase IIIb study of emicizumab shows promise for reducing risk of spontaneous and traumatic bleeds in infants with hemophilia A.
Researchers have discovered a rare type of immune cell that may predict how likely some patients with skin cancer will respond to immunotherapy treatment.
Researchers at City of Hope have discovered that a type of immune cell in the human body known to be important for allergy and other immune responses can also attack cancer.
A new vaccine may help speed up the process of making antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 by using preexisting immunity to a separate virus (the influenza virus).
A new cancer vaccine designed to detect and fight cancer cells without traditional cancer treatment is entering Phase III clinical trials.
A recent study has found that a commercially available plasma p-tau217 (phosphorylated tau 217) immunoassay accurately identified biological Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has enrolled the first United Kingdom (UK) patients who have received an experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) therapy — a type of immunotherapy treatment called mRNA-4359 — in its Phase I/II clinical trial.