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PharmaPhorum I On Clinical Trials Day, CVS shares lessons learned from one year providing trial services

CVS Health has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a health and beauty products store in 1963. In recent years the retail pharmacy chain has begun to delve more and more deeply into the healthcare sector – by constantly expanding the basic healthcare services offered at their instore Minute Clinics, and by […]

Orthopedics This Week I NEW DATA FOR ANTI-TNF INJECTION TREATMENT FOR DUPUYTREN’S

A novel anti-TNF injection treatment for Dupuytren’s disease, developed at the University of Oxford in the UK, was the subject of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2b trial. Final efficacy data from the study has just been released. The study, “Anti-tumor necrosis factor therapy for early-stage Dupuytren’s disease (RIDD): a phase 2b, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled […]

Myasthenia Gravis News I CAR T-cell Therapy Descartes-08 Continues to Show Promise in Trial

Descartes-08, Cartesian Therapeutics’ investigational CAR T-cell therapy, appears generally safe and markedly lessened symptom severity in the first five patients with generalized myasthenia gravis (gMG) enrolled in a Phase 1b/2a clinical trial. “I am very encouraged by the interim analysis findings,” as the therapy “appears safe and well tolerated, and the extent of clinical improvement seen in our […]