Tag: patients
Imfinzi maker AstraZeneca’s ‘Notes’ campaign delivers encouragement to lung cancer patients
Lung cancer diagnosis and treatment are tough enough in the best of times. AstraZeneca’s new campaign aims to help patients going through both, at a...
RWJBarnabas Health’s new program aims to identify social barriers to care...
Racial and socioeconomic realities have always been tied to a person’s health, with research showing the myriad ways in which being part of a...
Eli Lilly’s Olumiant pares COVID-19 patients’ recovery time down to 7...
Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, just two therapies have emerged as FDA-approved emergency therapies for hospitalized patients. Last month, Eli Lilly rolled out findings...
Bristol Myers Squibb’s targeted AML drug Idhifa fails to extend patients’...
Back in 2017, the FDA cleared Celgene's acute myeloid leukemia therapy Idhifa based on complete remission data. But fast forward to today, and the drug has...
AstraZeneca’s Farxiga cuts serious events by half in patients with chronic...
AstraZeneca has shaken up the lucrative heart failure market with diabetes med Farxiga after a major approval earlier this year. But in kidney disease, another...
Synairgen says inhaled biologic lowered risk of Covid-19 worsening in hospitalized...
Shares of a small British biotechnology company soared Monday as the company announced data from an early clinical trial of an inhaled formulation of...
Novartis taps real-life Cosentyx patients to thank healthcare workers, pledge patient...
Novartis is using familiar faces—real patients from its Cosentyx TV commercials—to thank healthcare workers and promise support for patients. It’s a shift away from product-centered TV...
Amgen, Adaptive to develop Covid-19 drugs using antibodies from recovered patients
One of the largest biotechnology companies in the country is tapping a longstanding partnership with another firm to develop treatments for Covid-19.
Thousand Oaks, California-based...
Coronavirus patients caught in conflict between hospital and nursing homes
A wrenching conflict is emerging as the COVID-19 virus storms through U.S. communities: Some patients are falling into a no man’s land between hospitals...
FDA says patients can self-administer Covid-19 tests, but not at home
A close-up view of a swab used by medical workers tend to administer the coronavirus test at the drive-in center at ProHealth Care on...
