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  • Living donor transplantation offers a safe alternative for liver transplant patients

    Demand for donor livers for transplant patients outstrips supply with over 15% of waitlist patients dying after a year. A new international study offers support for increasing the use of living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) in Western countries and reducing the imbalance between organ supply and demand. This study is reported in the Journal of Hepatology, the official journal of the European Association for the Study of the Liver, published by Elsevier.

  • Fasting-Mimicking Diet Reduces Signs of Dementia in Mice

    Short cycles of a low-calorie diet that replicates fasting appeared to reduce inflammation and delay cognitive decline in mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease; initial data indicates diet’s safety in Alzheimer’s patients.

  • New Zika Vaccine Shows Promise in Animal Models

    Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a Zika vaccine technology that is highly effective and safe in preclinical mouse models. In a pregnant mouse model, the vaccine prevented both the pregnant mothers and the developing fetuses from developing systemic infection. The research is published in Microbiology Spectrum, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology.

  • Mercks Keytruda gets Japanese approval

    Merck known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, announced that KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, received four new approvals from Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW)

  • Lupin receives warning letter from USFDA

    Lupin has received a warning letter from the USFDA for their Tarapur, Maharashtra facility. The U.S. FDA had inspected the Lupin Tarapur site from March 22, 2022 to April 4, 2022.

    Initially, USFDA has closed the inspection at Lupin’s Tarapur manufacturing facility with four observations.

  • Lupin Launches Sildenafil for Oral Suspension in the United States

    Lupin is an innovation-led transnational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, India. The Company develops and commercializes a wide range of branded and generic formulations, biotechnology products, and APIs in over 100 markets in the U.S., India, South Africa, and across the Asia Pacific (APAC), Latin America (LATAM), Europe, and Middle East regions.

  • Bayers Eylea approved in Japan for child ratinopathy

    Bayer announced that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan has approved Eylea (aflibercept) intravitreal injection 40 mg/mL for the treatment of preterm infants with retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific gets FDA nod for Oncomine Dx Target Test

    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Oncomine Dx Target Test as a companion diagnostic (CDx) to aid in selection of patients with RET-fusion positive locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), RET-fusion positive advanced or metastatic thyroid cancer and RET-mutation positive advanced or metastatic medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) who may be eligible for treatment with Lilly’s Retevmo (selpercatinib).

  • Torrent Pharma to acquire Curatio Healthcare

    Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited (Torrent Pharma) has entered into definitive agreements to acquire 100% of Curatio Healthcare (I) Private Limited (Curatio) for Rs. 2,000 crores. The consideration includes Rs. 115 crores (on the date of signing) of cash and cash equivalents in the acquired business indicating an Enterprise Value of Rs. 1,885 crores.

  • Pfizer and BioNTech seeks approval for Omicron Vaccine Booster in children

    Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE announced they have completed a submission to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requesting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of a 10-µg booster dose of the companies’ Omicron BA.4/BA.5-adapted bivalent COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 through 11 years of age.

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