Eli Lilly scored another win against diabetes as the company’s once-weekly dual glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) and glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonist tirzepatide won approval under Priority Review from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
AstraZeneca’s proposed treatment for heart disease delivered positive high-level results from the company’s Phase III DELIVER trial.
As real world evidence (RWE) becomes a more prevalent resource for confirming and expanding product benefit-risk profiles, non-randomized studies (NRS) are emerging as a valuable generator of real world data (RWD). Joan Largent – Senior Director, Epidemiology and Outcomes Research at IQVIA – discusses the findings of her recent study and how researchers can utilize assessment tools for their ability to accurately assess NRS validity.
The most obvious risks from COVID-19 are hospitalization and death. But study after study shows the disease comes with an increased risk of a number of health problems, including diabetes.
Biocon Biologics acquired partner Viatris’ biosimilars assets in a transaction that is part of an effort to create a global, vertically integrated biosimilars leader.
Researchers at the University of Copenhagen – The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences found that activating a specialized group of neurons within the brainstem of mice restored full movement function in mice with symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Patients with severe COVID-19 who develop diabetes while hospitalized may have only a temporary form of the disease and their blood sugar levels may return to normal afterward, according to new findings. Additionally, new data illustrate the jumps in U.S. coronavirus infection rates caused by the Omicron variant and the heavier toll it has taken on minorities in the latest example of racial disparity in the pandemic.
Rivus Pharmaceuticals, a biopharma company focused on therapies for cardiometabolic health, announced positive data from a Phase IIa clinical trial.
As a general rule, whatever health condition a person may have, COVID-19 makes it worse. But COVID-19 also causes certain conditions or is being implicated in their earlier onset. Type 1 diabetes and Parkinson’s disease are prime examples. Now, researchers report that the SARS-CoV-2 virus may also cause fetal inflammation, even when the placenta itself is not inflamed.
Provention Bio is resubmitting a Biologics License Application (BLA) for teplizumab, a drug intended to delay the onset of Type 1 diabetes (T1D) in at-risk individuals, following a Type B pre-BLA resubmission meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.