Category: Clinical Trials

A $480,000-a-Year Pill Reflects a New Normal for Cancer Drugs

The New York Times – Business:
Rasonque, the new pancreatic cancer treatment from Revolution Medicines, illustrates the huge inflation in cancer drug prices over the past two decades.
‘Intrinsic Capacity’: The Most Important Longevity Term You’ve Never Heard Of

The New York Times – On the Runway:
Intrinsic capacity is quickly becoming a preferred way to measure and assess human aging.
New Drug Approved by F.D.A. for Pancreatic Cancer Could Be First of Many

The New York Times – Business:
Companies are testing dozens of similar drugs in cancers of the pancreas, lung, colon and more.
F.D.A. Approves the Drug Daraxonrasib That’s Poised to Transform Pancreatic Cancer

The New York Times – Business:
In a key clinical trial, patients who got the pill, daraxonrasib, lived twice as long as those who got chemotherapy.
Medical Journal Retracts Study Claiming Cancer Therapy Is More Effective When Given in the Morning

The New York Times – Business:
In a notice flagging a series of problems with a clinical trial, the journal Nature Medicine said its editors “no longer have confidence in the integrity of the results.”
Experimental Drug Yields Dramatic Weight Loss

The New York Times – Business:
People who got the injection, retatrutide, lost 28 percent of their body weight on average after 80 weeks, Eli Lilly said.
How an ‘Impossible’ Idea Led to a Pancreatic Cancer Breakthrough

The New York Times – Business:
The new strategy also holds promise for lung and colon tumors. Here’s how scientists discovered it.
American Factories Lag in Adopting A.I. This Drugmaker Is an Exception.

The New York Times – Business:
A Bristol Myers Squibb plant that makes cancer drugs was the only manufacturer in the U.S. recognized for innovation by the World Economic Forum this year.
F.D.A. Grants Early Access to Promising Drug for Pancreatic Cancer

The New York Times – Business:
Patients with one of the deadliest cancers have been pleading for an unapproved treatment that may prolong their lives.
New Gene Therapy Enables Children With a Rare Form of Deafness to Hear

The New York Times – Business:
The treatment, the first of its kind, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday. “Our baby was born deaf, and now he can hear,” said one parent.
Two Drugs Stir Hope for Treatment of Deadly Pancreatic Cancer

The New York Times – Business:
In separate small clinical trials, two treatments showed promise that they could help patients with one of the most dire diagnoses in oncology.
A Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study

The New York Times – Business:
A closely watched clinical trial in Britain that screened blood for early detection of cancer did not show a reduction in later stages of the disease.