The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has clearly indicated that extension of the current “partial shutdown” of the government will, in the not too distant future, start to delay approvals of new drugs and diagnostics and new indications for currently marketed drugs. … READ MORE …
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For many years now, here in the USA, access to FDA-approved drugs for the treatment of cancer and other severe forms of disorder have been guaranteed under Medicare. … READ MORE …
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A report yesterday on on the MedPage Today web site quotes Scott Gottlieb, MD, the Commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) on the importance of “Listening to patients” and on how patients’ perspectives can inform drug development, drug review, and physicians’ prescribing habits. … READ MORE …
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The issue as to whether the new, so-called “right-to-try” legislation is a good idea or not is contentious and your sitemaster has no interest in getting into that discussion. What is a fact is that it has now been signed into law. … READ MORE …
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According to a recently published article in The Prostate, researchers at the University of Minnesota have developed a new type of drug that they believe may have high therapeutic potential in the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). … READ MORE …
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So the other morning your sitemaster learned that a relatively new FirstWord Therapy Report had come out that dealt with future use of biopharmaceuticals in the treatment of progressive and advanced prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Readers with an interest in how we got to today’s clinical trials processes for evaluating new drugs for the treatment of prostate cancer and other diseases might be surprised by what’s in an article in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine. … READ MORE …
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