“The recent progress of cystic fibrosis drugs has been amazing and, in my case, miraculous,” said Kelly Peters, who lives with cystic fibrosis. “The new drugs are not a cure, but they feel pretty close.”
Biotech Bay, the bustling biotech industry around San Francisco in California, is home to many biopharma companies developing diagnostics, therapies, and vaccines to fight against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the virus that causes it, called SARS-CoV-2.
BioSpace takes an in-depth look at the human immunodeficiency virus including research, drugs in the pipeline and treatments. Check out the free downloadable report.
*Achoo* Muddling through a stuffy, runny nose and itchy, watery eyes? You aren’t alone - over 17.6 million American adults (about 7.5%) experience allergic rhinitis (also called hay fever or seasonal allergies). Many different substances (called allergens) can trigger allergic rhinitis, such as tree or grass pollen, and each person has their own set of problematic allergens.
Peanut allergy is the most common food allergy in children and that number has been rising – peanut allergy incidence increased 21 percent from 2010 to 2017. Almost 2.5 percent of children in the US are thought to have a peanut allergy, according to the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (ACAAI).
What is the best way to prevent or even reverse Alzheimer’s disease? That’s the question at the top of many researchers’ minds, especially given all of the recent large Phase 3 failures involving beta-amyloid targeting drugs, the most pursued target to date. This is troubling but not entirely shocking.
50 million people worldwide live with symptomatic Alzheimer’s, which has no cure. In honor of September 21st being World Alzheimer’s Day, we evaluated the current therapies, drugs in the pipeline and disease outlook.
With the latest major Phase 3 failure of Biogen and Eisai’s beta-amyloid-targeting antibody drug aducanumab, researchers are increasingly turning to other drug targets for Alzheimer’s disease.
How can you selectively target and destroy cancerous T-cells using other T-cells? This question has plagued researches hoping to apply chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapies to T-cell cancers.
Have you ever asked your doctor whether the drug they are prescribing you is FDA-approved for how they are prescribing it? When a doctor prescribes an FDA-approved drug for a disease or condition, age group, or dosage other than what it has been approved for, then it is called an unapproved, or “off-label,” use.
