Safety

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Study reignites debate on GLP-1 drugs and suicide risk

A study has found a higher risk of suicidal thoughts in users of Novo Nordisk's GLP-1 agonist-based drugs for diabetes and obesity, even though regulators in the US and EU concluded there w

Oncology

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cells: Emerging uses and future ...

Genetic engineering technologies allow for the creation of custom-made cells that can have transformative effects on human health.

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Vertex, Orum partner on safer pre-treatment for gene meds

Vertex Pharma has teamed up with Orum Therapeutics to develop a conditioning regimen, used to prepare patients to receive gene-editing medicines, that it hopes will offer a more tolerable a

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Call goes out for simpler clinical trial regulation in UK

Clinical trials are strictly regulated to ensure patient safety, but the current framework in the UK is stifling early-phase clinical research, making it harder to advance novel therapies t

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Roche will relaunch AMD implant Susvimo after update

Roche’s Genentech unit has said will reintroduce its Susvimo implant for eyesight-robbing disease age-related macular degeneration (AMD), which was withdrawn from sale in 2022 due to manufa

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As IARC uprates talc cancer risk, will J&J be affected?

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has published a new assessment of talc’s potential to cause cancer, concluding that is it ‘probably carcinogenic’ to humans.