It started with one magical model, no dedicated space and a few staff who saw the transformative power of molded plastics, printed layer by layer into a physical, life-size anatomical representation. This 3D-printed replica of conjoined twins was the big…
Eli Lilly and Company announced today that the U.S. FDA has approved Omvoh™ (mirikizumab-mrkz) infusion (300 mg/15 mL)/injection (100 mg/mL), the first and only interleukin-23p19 (IL-23p19) antagonist for the treatment of moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC) in adults.…
Roche announced today that the U.S. FDA has approved Vabysmo® (faricimab) for the treatment of macular edema following retinal vein occlusion (RVO). RVO is the third indication for Vabysmo, in addition to neovascular or ‘wet’ age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and…
AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s (trastuzumab deruxtecan) has been approved in the European Union (EU) as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumours have an activating HER2 (ERBB2) mutation and who require…
Pfizer Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved PENBRAYA™ (meningococcal groups A, B, C, W and Y vaccine), the first and only pentavalent vaccine that provides coverage against the most common serogroups causing meningococcal…
Cancer patients receiving anthracycline chemotherapy have more than twice the risk of developing heart failure compared to their peers without cancer. The ground-breaking RESILIENCE project aims to prevent heart failure in patients who need anthracyclines to treat their cancer. International…
For the first time in Switzerland, vascular surgeons of USZ inserted an aortic arch prosthesis entirely by minimally invasive procedure, without incisions, via an inguinal artery and accesses in the arms. The severely ill patient would not have survived the…
Bristol Myers Squibb today announced that Opdivo®(nivolumab) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the adjuvant treatment of adult and pediatric patients 12 years and older with completely resected stage IIB or IIC melanoma, expanding upon…
Pfizer Inc. announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved VELSIPITY™ (etrasimod), an oral, once-daily, selective sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator for adults with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis (UC). The approved recommended dose for VELSIPITY…
FDA approves BRAFTOVI® + MEKTOVI® for BRAF V600E-Mutant Metastatic NSCLC. Pfizer announced that FDA has approved BRAFTOVI® (encorafenib) + MEKTOVI® (binimetinib) for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a BRAF V600E mutation, as…