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STAT+: Cancer therapy’s new ‘gold rush’:  bispecific antibodies that hit key combination of targets

STAT

Immune checkpoint inhibitors, drugs that can help make the immune system recognize and destroy cancer more aggressively, are one of the most important medicines in cancer treatment today.

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Episode 862: Why hypokalemia can result from digoxin immune fab fragment administration

Pharmacy Joe

In this episode, I’ll discuss why hypokalemia can result from digoxin immune fab fragment administration. With the administration of antidote therapy with digoxin immune fab fragments, the function of the sodium-potassium ATPase pump is restored.

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Episode 862: Why hypokalemia can result from digoxin immune fab fragment administration

Pharmacy Joe

In this episode, I’ll discuss why hypokalemia can result from digoxin immune fab fragment administration. With the administration of antidote therapy with digoxin immune fab fragments, the function of the sodium-potassium ATPase pump is restored.

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Trial highlights potential next-gen biologic for lung cancer

European Pharmaceutical Review

the biologic has the potential to deliver anti-tumour responses in the majority of patients with ES-SCLC” The ongoing Phase I trial is assessing the antibody-drug conjugate both as a single treatment and as a combination therapy together with the immune checkpoint inhibitor atezolizumab.

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IO Biotech raises $155m to develop breakthrough cancer vaccine

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The Series B fundraiser follows the FDA’s decision to grant Breakthrough Therapy designation last month for a combination of its lead immune-oncology therapies IO102 and IO103, with anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibodies for patients with metastatic melanoma.

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Can You Answer These 4 USMLE Step 1 Practice Questions?

Board Vitals - Pharmacist

A 6-year-old boy is evaluated for a cough that has been present for the last 6 weeks. His mother reports that he has not had any immunizations since 4 months of age. Testing of the urine or serum of this infant will likely reveal an elevated level of which compound? In the emergency room, he is tachycardic and hypoxic.

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Company profile: NeoImmuneTech

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Amplifying and reinvigorating persistent T cell immunity has become a much-needed path to enhance anti-tumor efficacy. By enabling strong CD8 T-cell infiltration in cold tumor tissues, NT-I7, a compound developed by NeoImmuneTech, is capable of promoting a microenvironment that contributes to clinical efficacy, when combined with a CPI.

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