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Staying Informed About Medication Safety and Cancer Risks

The medications we take are supposed to protect our health and help us recover from serious illnesses and injuries. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen. Some medications cause more harm than good. Dangerous and...more

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Henlius Receives Orphan-Drug Designation for HLX22 (anti-HER2 mAb) for Gastric Cancer

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On March 19, 2025, Shanghai Henlius Biotech announced that the FDA has granted Orphan Drug Designation for HLX22, an anti-HER2 monoclonal antibody, for the treatment of gastric cancer. HLX22 binds to HER2 extracellular...more

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FDA Bans Red Dye No. 3 Under the Delaney Clause

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has revoked its authorization for the use of FD&C Red No. 3, also known as Red Dye No. 3. Issued on January 15, 2025, the ban will go into effect for food (including dietary...more

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FDA Approves New Biologic Cancer Treatments

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On November 20th, Jazz Pharmaceuticals announced that the FDA has approved ZIIHERA® (zanidatamab-hrii) on an accelerated basis for the treatment of adults with previously treated, unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive (IHC...more

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Antibody Drug Conjugates Keep Growing: What You Need to Know

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What Are ADCs and Why Are They Growing? Over the past few years economic headwinds have resulted in fewer deals, with companies and private equity firms alike reassessing where to spend money. But one portion of the...more

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Cancer Drugs: Clinical Trial Issues for Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs)/Antibody Therapeutics

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Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) are a class of small molecule drugs (also known as a payload) and an antibody conjugated together by a chemical linker. ADCs are designed to target specific cells, such as cancer cells, while...more

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Krazati Untitled Letter: A Cautionary Tale for CFL Promotion of Accelerated Approval Drugs

On August 1, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Prescription Drug Promotion (OPDP) issued an untitled letter to Mirati Therapeutics Inc., a Bristol Myers Squibb Co. (Mirati), relating to promotional...more

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Cancer Drugs: Antibody-Drug Conjugate Litigation

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Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are typically composed of a monoclonal antibody attached to a cytotoxic drug via a chemical linker. The antibody is able to identify biomarkers on and attach to cancer cells, allowing targeted...more

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Health Care Week in Review: CMS Finalizes the TCET Pathway for Breakthrough Technologies; HRSA Awards Health Centers Funding for...

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Below is Alston & Bird’s Health Care Week in Review, which provides a synopsis of the latest news in health care regulations, notices, and guidance; federal legislation and congressional committee action; reports, studies,...more

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Cancer Drugs: Deals and Licensing for Antibody-Drug Conjugates

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Antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) are a promising class of cancer treatments with an accelerating number of U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approvals and rapidly growing market size, as discussed in previous articles in...more

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Cancer Drugs: Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs) Keep Growing

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Over the past few years economic headwinds have resulted in fewer deals, with companies and private equity firms alike reassessing where to spend money. But one portion of the pharmaceutical industry is bucking this trend in...more

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Cancer Vaccines: The Fourth Pillar of Anti-Cancer Therapy?

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Innovative technologies are being deployed to address the Western world’s major killer: cancer. Traditionally, cancer treatment has included surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, but recently, the development of targeted...more

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New blood test to guide personalized cancer treatment

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On August 26, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Foundation Medicine, Inc.’s Foundation One® Liquid CDx, a quantitative next-generation sequencing (NGS) test that can detect mutations using circulating...more

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Why Was Zantac (Ranitidine) Recalled by the FDA?

It was no April Fool’s Day joke when the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) issued a news release requiring the recall of every single ranitidine drug on the market. Ranitidine, commonly known as Zantac, an...more

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Did Patients Trade Weight Loss Concerns for Cancer Concerns? - BELVIQ

Is BELVIQ adding to patient cancer risks? In February of 2020, an announcement was made that the weight loss drug lorcaserin (sold under brand names BELVIQ and BELVIQ XR) would be voluntarily withdrawn from the market in...more

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Injured Patients Want Consolidation of Zantac Lawsuits

Litigation Update - On January 30, 2020, class action, consumer protection and pharmaceutical lawyers from around the country will be in federal court in Tampa, Florida to argue before a panel of federal judges whether...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.21.2019 | Top Story: Four Drug Companies Reach Last-minute Deal to Avoid Start of Federal Opioid Trial

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A last-minute deal between defendants McKesson, Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and Teva and plaintiffs’ attorneys means that multidistrict opioid epidemic litigation set to kick off in Ohio federal court today will not...more

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Financial Daily Dose 10.1.2019 | Top Story: Credit Suisse COO Resigns in Wake of Corporate Spying Scandal

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Top Tidjane Thiam ally Pierre-Olivier Bouee, Credit Suisse’s COO, has resigned in the wake of an internal probe finding that he “ordered the surveillance of the bank’s former wealth-management chief, Iqbal Khan, without...more

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The Era of Personalized Medicine Has Arrived - PMC’s Annual Progress and Outlook Report

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The Personalized Medicine Coalition (PMC) released its annual “Personalized Medicine At FDA: A Progress & Outlook Report” (Report) that monitors current successes and challenges in bringing personalized therapies to market....more

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CMS Makes CAR T-Cell Cancer Therapy Available to Medicare Beneficiaries Nationwide

Autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells—which are “living drugs”—are promising, emerging therapeutics in immuno-oncology. One example of these “living drugs” is Kymriah (tisagenlecleucel). The drug, a CD-19...more

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Companies with New Cancer Drug Candidates Should Plan Now for August 2020

Requirement for a Pediatric Clinical Investigation - Starting on August 18, 2020, any drug company submitting an original application for a first-to-be approved or licensed cancer drug that: - is indicated for an adult...more

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FDA Launches Expanded Access Experimental Cancer Drug Project

In the U.S., patient access to investigational cancer drugs—outside of clinical trials licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—has historically proven insurmountable for most patients for at least the...more

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$1 billion+ may seem like a lot of money. It still can’t resolve many questions.

Although lawsuits can result in needed financial support and welcome recognition of harms suffered by patients seeking medical services, the civil justice system has its limits. They showed in cases in the news in which...more

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FDA Outlines Considerations for the Development and Labeling of Companion Diagnostics for Use with a Specific Group or Class of...

Recently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, issued a draft guidance (the guidance) outlining considerations for the development and labeling of in vitro companion diagnostics to support indicated uses for...more

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Janssen’s Erleada Will be the First Participant in FDA’s Clinical Data Summary Pilot Program

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On February 14, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Janssen Therapeutics’ Erleada (apalutamide), a non-steroidal antiandrogen for the treatment of castration-resistant non-metastatic prostate cancer....more

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