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Study findings may make durvalumab plus chemotherapy a new standard of care option for patients with advanced biliary tract cancer.

A patient with juvenile dermatomyositis experienced aseptic meningitis brought on by intravenous immunoglobulin and recovered fully with no neurological effects.

Expert discusses the effect of baseline transfusion burden and luspatercept dose level on response to treatment in patients with LR-MDS from the MEDALIST study.

Expert discusses the results of a trial assessing immune reconstitution in adult patients who received Orca-T, consisting of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, regulatory T cells, and conventional T cells.

Expert discusses clinical outcomes of the phase 3 ZUMA-7 trial assessing axicabtagene ciloleucel versus standard-of-care in second-line large B-cell lymphoma by metabolic tumor volume.

Expert discusses the safety and efficacy of polatuzumab vedotin combined with rituximab, ifosfamide, carboplatin, and etoposide (R-ICE) as second-line treatment in a multicenter phase 2 study.

Expert discusses analysis of phase 3 MEDALIST trial data aimed to assess the probability of greater overall survival and progression-free survival benefit from luspatercept vs placebo.

Low socioeconomic status was associated with greater in-hospital mortality and decreased use of advanced therapeutic options.

Following a phase 2 analysis of OP-1250 with palbociclib, researchers recommend an OP-1250 dose level of 120 mg/day for future trials.

Guidelines for HER2-low expressed cancer could define who and how patient recieve drugs, said expert live from San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2022.

At 3 and 6 months, rivaroxaban was found to be as effective and safe as apixaban in the composite outcome of recurrent venous thromboembolism or bleeding-related hospitalization.

The phase 3 clinical trial shows that the 5-year OS for patients with HR+/HER2- advanced breast cancer in the abemaciclib plus fulvestrant group was 41.2% vs 29.2% for the placebo arm.

OP-1250 and palbociclib showed “enhanced suppression of tumor growth” in preclinical mouse model studies, according to expert who presented his findings in a poster at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium 2022.

Expert sits with Pharmacy Times to share the promising results of a study that evaluated the safety of a new antibody drug conjugate with radiation therapy.

Results from the phase 3 CAPItello-291 clinical trial show that the combination doubled the median progression-free survival compared with the placebo in patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

The decision is updated from a 2017 recommendation to screen people for obstructive sleep apnea, which can lead to daytime sleepiness and other adverse outcomes.

BYLieve clinical trial data indicate long-term and very-long-term data disease control was observed in 25.6% and 16.5% of patients, respectively, with PFS at 24.8 and 29.4 months in patients with HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced breast cancer.

Clinicians should consider potential aspiration of illicit drug packets that were swallowed or inserted into the body.

Palivizumab is a humanized monoclonal antibody approved by the FDA to prevent serious lower respiratory tract infection caused by respiratory syncytial virus in infants and young children.

The presence of CD8+ cells may help predict outcomes for patients administered immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Zavegepant could become the first intranasal drug that targets CGRP in migraine sufferers to gain FDA approval.

Atrasentan has been found to lower albuminuria, which correlates with reductions in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides.

Booster shots updated for the Omicron variant BA.4 and BA.5 lineages cleared for children 6 months through 4 years of age.

Efficacy and safety profile in combination with alpelisib is comparable to that reported in the BYLieve and SOLAR-1 clinical trials, according to a poster presentation at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Pharmacy Times will be covering the 64th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, which gathers pharmacy professionals working in malignant and classical hematology in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Based on the ALIFE 2 trial results, the investigators do not advise the routine use of low-molecular-weight heparin in women with recurrent pregnancy loss and confirmed inherited thrombophilia.

A modified secukinumab dosing regimen produced outcomes on par with currently recommended intervals in patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis, but longer follow-ups are needed to confirm the findings.