Diabetes

Jul 09, 2019

NICE recommends Pfizer’s Vizimpro for treating NSCLC Not long ago, Pfizer’s Vizimpro (dacomitinib) a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), was approved as a first-line monotherapy treatment for adult patients living with locally advanced or metastatic non-small lung cancer (NSCLC). As evaluated by the American Cancer...

Jun 12, 2019

The study published in The New England Journal of Medicine set out to study the effect of the drug teplizumab in people at high risk for type 1 diabetes. According to recent Phase II clinical trials, in experimental immunotherapy conducted, the drug has been able to delay the onset of disease for the first tim...

May 14, 2019

FDA gives green signal to HealthPNX Zebra Medical Vision- an Israel-based developer recently has received FDA’s approval to use Artificial Intelligence to scan and analyze chest X-rays. It will help identify pneumothorax which is the buildup of air inside the pleural cavity, caused by injury either to the lung o...

Apr 30, 2019

A Praluent boost for Sanofi, and Regeneron The U.S. FDA has given its nod to Praluent (alirocumab) to be used for reducing the risk of heart attack, stroke, and unstable angina requiring hospitalization in adults with established cardiovascular (CV) disease. Praluent is an injectable prescription medicine co-dev...

Feb 21, 2019

Peloton Therapeutics raises USD 150 Million for treating Advance Kidney Cancer Peloton Therapeutics has been in the process of developing small molecule drugs to treat Cancer, has raised USD 150 million. Peloton’s lead therapeutic candidate, PT2977, focuses on targeting hypoxia-inducible fac...

Feb 18, 2019

Diabetes – a chronic condition in which sugar is not processed in the body. Diabetic people either do not produce enough insulin or cells halt responding to insulin. Due to this, sugar keeps on accumulating in the blood that leads to increased sugar. Gradually, high blood sugar can lead to nerve damage and heart di...

Nov 14, 2018

[caption id="attachment_3594" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] World Diabetes Day[/caption] Today we celebrate World Diabetes Day to raise global awareness of a disease that affects million people worldwide. In honor of this day, we have garnered myths & facts about diabetes.

Nov 14, 2018

[caption id="attachment_3575" align="aligncenter" width="1360"] World Diabetes Day[/caption] Caring for Diabetes involves family too. Education and awareness play the most important role in early diagnosis and management. World Diabetes Day is celebrated on 14 November each year.

Nov 13, 2018

The pancreatic cancer drug of GlaxoSmithKline moves to phase 1 The experimental drug, GSK095 of GlaxoSmithKline is made to work in order with a checkpoint that are inhibiting medicines in the empowerment of the immune system to introduce a more aggressive attack against tumours than with checkpoint inhibitors alone...

Nov 02, 2018

Did you know that Calciphylaxis, or calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA), although affects merely 1 to 4 % of patients undergoing dialysis, has a dismal prognosis with up to 80% mortality? In addition to numerous comorbidities which affect the majority of dialysis patients, Calciphylaxis is a painful and often fatal...