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Officials with the FDA are assessing data accuracy issues related to Zolgensma, but have no major concerns about the spinal muscular atrophy treatment remaining on the market.

Effective patient-provider communication is critical to the healing process and it begins the moment the patient makes contact with the staff and continues even after the patient fills his prescription at the pharmacy.

Research could lead to the development of new cancer treatments to stop tumor growth.

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Over the last 5 years, more than 4000 FDA-regulated clinical trials were initiated worldwide for rare disease treatments.

Pexidartinib (Turalio, Daiichi Sankyo) is indicated for adult patients with symptomatic tenosynovial giant cell tumor associated with severe morbidity or functional limitations and not amenable to improvement with surgery.

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The 1st annual International Congress on the Future of Neurology will be held on September 27-28, 2019 in New York City, featuring a rigorous agenda of presentations, question and answer sessions, and lightning rounds highlighting topics across the breadth of neurology.

With rapid growth, health system specialty pharmacies are more than likely to run into several operational pain points.

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Pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck) plus chemotherapy met the primary endpoint of pathological complete response in patients with triple-negative breast cancer in a phase 3 study.

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The findings represent the first positive phase 2b study of a personalized cancer vaccine in patients with high-risk melanoma.

With specialty pharmacy emerging as the fastest growing segment of the pharmacy industry, health systems have to address a key question: can you scale for it?

Study provides the longest available follow-up on the survival of patients with advanced melanoma, renal cell carcinoma, and non-small cell lung cancer treated with nivolumab.

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Darolutamide is an androgen receptor inhibitor (ARi) for the treatment of patients with non-metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Abemaciclib (Verzenio, Eli Lilly) in combination with fulvestrant demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in overall survival among women with metastatic breast cancer previously treated with endocrine therapy.

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Vaccine found to provide durable protection against the “death star” HIV strain, which is notably hard to fight.

Researchers aimed to determine the potential pathology of encephalitis as a complication of immunotherapy treatment.

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Erdafitinib (Balversa, Janssen) is the first FGFR inhibitor to receive FDA approval for the treatment of patients with metastatic bladder cancer marked by FGFR gene mutations.

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Administered through a drug-eluting implant, islatravir demonstrated protection against HIV for up to 12 months.

Results from an ongoing safety trial of tofacitinib demonstrated an increased risk of blood clots and death associated with a 10-mg twice daily dose of tofacitinib in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

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Investigators find that radiation equivalent to 3 CT scans prompts the growth of the p53 mutation in mice.