A clinical trial has found that giving peanut oral immunotherapy to highly peanut-allergic children ages 1 to 3 years safely desensitized most of them to peanut and induced remission of peanut allergy in one-fifth.
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Elon Musk seems ready to start putting microchips in people's brains, 'cause his company aiming to do just that is hiring ... wanting someone who can head up clinical trials.
Quite a few biopharmaceutical companies expect to report key clinical data in the coming months. In this Motley Fool Live video recorded on Jan. 12, 2022, Fool contributors Keith Speights and Brian Orelli discuss three clinical trials especially...
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* In an analysis of data from a recent clinical trial, researchers found that removing a race-based adjustment in the estimation of individuals' kidney function had a small but potentially important impact on the inclusion of participants, with...
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A new study shows that an FDA-approved, pharmaceutical-grade formulation of CBD has an antiviral effect in human lung cells and mice, and shows a significant negative association with COVID infection in human patients.
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Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company Neuralink has a new job posting for a clinical trial director, a position that could help the...
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Immunotherapy given before surgery caused liver cancer tumors to die off in one-third of the patients enrolled in a new clinical trial.
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Catalent, Inc. CTLT recently launched a new Xpress Pharmaceutics service, which aims to further the development of oral drugs through Phase 1 clinical studies. This approach can lower the cost and time needed to complete first-in-human trials by...
First published account of successful pig-to-human transplant in a brain-dead recipient opens the door to clinical trials in animal-to-human kidney donation. Medscape Medical News
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WEDNESDSAY, Jan. 19, 2022 -- In the Bronchiolitis Follow-up Intervention Trial (BeneFIT) setting, physicians more often determined that Hispanic patients were not appropriate for as-needed follow-up and excluded them from the trial, according to a...
AMITA Health and the University of Chicago Medicine have joined forces in a collaboration to jointly bring the South Side academic health system's specialized cancer expertise, access to advanced therapies and innovative clinical trials, and greater...
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In a phase 2 clinical trial conducted by Avalo Therapeutics and supported by researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys, a significantly higher proportion of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 remained alive and free of respiratory failure for 28 days...
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A new study shows that treatment with an immune-boosting protein called interleukin 7 (IL-7) in combination with radiation improves survival in mice with glioblastoma. The study in mice suggests promise for a phase 1/2 clinical trial that is...
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The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced it is aggressively pursuing clinical trial fraud, where unethical players create fictional trial participants, steal the drugs under study, and fabricate results. But systemic reform of the clinical...
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WEDNESDAY, Jan. 12, 2022 -- Among men with localized prostate cancer enrolled in clinical trials for definitive radiotherapy, Black men have better outcomes than White men, according to a review published online Dec. 29 in JAMA Network Open.
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CMS seeks to limit pay for aducanumab and expected similar follow-on drugs to cases where people are enrolled in clinical trials. Medscape Medical News
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People with severe alcohol disorder were able to stay off alcohol for longer when they were treated with low doses of ketamine combined with psychological therapy in a clinical trial.
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Gilead Sciences, Inc. GILD) announced it has entered into two clinical trial collaboration and supply agreements with pharma giant Merck MRK.Both the companies will collaborate to evaluate the combination of Gilead’s Trop-2 targeting...
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Preliminary findings from Penn Medicine in an ongoing first-in-human clinical trial examining the safety, tolerability and feasibility of chimeric antigen receptor macrophage (CAR-M) has helped to establish the viability of this innovative...
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The FDA warned Americans to never use medications like Ivermectin that “is intended for animals.”
They called it a horse drug.
Now a clinical trial conducted by MedinCells and surprisingly funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation...
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