The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) review of the biologics license application (BLA) for bimekizumab for the treatment of psoriasis is continuing. A decision on the approval application has been delayed until the third quarter of this year, according to a June 26 announcement by the manufacturer, UCB. The FDA’s decision had been expected by the end of June. […]

While the human mind develops during aging, the mechanism of development remains unknown but may be the result of brain alteration derived from life style and environment. Schizophrenia usually develops during puberty through early adulthood and is suspected to interrupt brain development, but the degree of neural alteration remains unclear in schizophrenia. A new study, published in PLOS ONE, performed […]

What happens after a first-time hospitalization for heart failure? While there are guidelines on optimal treatment of patients with heart failure, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have found that if those guidelines aren’t followed, the outcomes can be costly and sometimes deadly. The findings, appearing in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Heart Failure, show that 28% […]

Clinical testing is underway for a potentially groundbreaking new treatment for cystic fibrosis. Pioneered by scientists at Carle Illinois College of Medicine at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa in partnership with the spin-out biotechnology company, cystetic Medicines, this promising inhalable molecular prosthetic is intended to improve lung function in […]

When Kristie Fields was undergoing treatment for breast cancer nine years ago, she got some unsolicited advice at the hospital: Share your story on the local news, a nurse told her. Viewers would surely send money. Fields, a Navy veteran and former shipyard worker, was 37 and had four kids at home. The food processing plant where her husband worked […]

Leaders from 12 nuclear medicine organizations around the world have issued a white paper about the challenges and opportunities in theranostics education. Published in the June issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, the report outlines the current theranostic educational and accreditation offerings across the globe. It also provides guidelines to assist countries in developing educational and training curriculums that […]

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In a recent preview article published in the Cell Host & Microbe Journal, researchers discussed the work by Chen et al., published in April 2023 in the journal Science, which describes the use of engineered commensal bacteria to increase antitumor immunity by improving tumor antigen cross-presentation to T cells. Study: Cracking cancer with engineered skin commensals. Image Credit: KaterynaKon/Shutterstock.com Background An area […]

Evidence from a small-scale clinical trial suggests that a variation of the advanced blood cancer immunotherapy known as CAR-T could be adapted to treat myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder of the nervous system. The modified CAR-T therapy, short for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell, used by scientists offers the potential for a longer-lasting reduction in myasthenia gravis symptoms and was well-tolerated […]

Ever wonder where in your brain that interesting character called “I” lives? Stanford Medicine physician-scientist Josef Parvizi, MD, Ph.D., has news of its whereabouts. If skulls were transparent, you still wouldn’t see much going on in someone else’s brain. But Parvizi has ways of peeking into people’s heads and finding out what makes us tick. His experiments have pinpointed specific […]