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The United Nations High-Level Panel on Access to Medicine is proposing that governments rely on compulsory licenses to improve patient access to medicines in a highly anticipated report that has been met with dismay from industry. Read More
A joint meeting of three FDA advisory committees tackled the issue of prescribing opioid painkillers in pediatrics and came up with a constant refrain: We need more data. Read More
Diabetes drugs carry special development challenges and can be the riskiest sector in pharmaceuticals, with one in 13 investigational drugs achieving U.S. approval, according to a report from the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development. Read More
The FDA confirmed the use of total kidney volume measurements in selecting patients for clinical trials in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Read More
Kite Pharma announced positive interim results from a Phase II clinical trial of its immunotherapy in patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas and said the study would form the basis of its marketing submissions to the FDA. Read More
Three pharmaceutical companies announced Phase III trial results from their injectable psoriasis treatments — with one delivering better head-to-head clinical results than international top-selling drug Humira, which reached over $14 billion in sales in 2015. Read More
To achieve the national cancer moonshot’s goal of accelerating cancer research, the FDA is planning to encourage more seamless, adaptive clinical trial designs for oncologic drugs. Read More
Niraparib almost quadrupled progression-free survival in certain ovarian cancer patients compared to placebo, according to results from a Phase III trial. Read More