New Drugs Approved
There’s new hope for patients with aggressive triple-negative breast cancer. Recent research shows that combining chemotherapy with the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab before and after surgery can significantly improve survival rates. This breakthrough treatment, highlighted in the KEYNOTE-522 tria
Arthritis
What did the research discover? Researchers examined biosimilar drugs as a cost-effective alternative to biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Biosimilars of adalimumab, etanercept, infliximab, and rituximab have been approved in the U.S. and Europe, offering comparable safety and effectiveness to their reference biologics. Key findings
2023 Approvals
<!-- wp:heading --> What is Brixadi prescribed for? Brixadi is indicated for the treatment of moderate to severe opioid use disorder in patients who have initiated treatment with a single dose of a transmucosal buprenorphine product or who are already being treated with buprenorphine. What is the
Eye
What Did the Research Discover? Researchers studied how vision works and what happens when certain parts of the eye stop functioning properly. They focused on the retina, the thin layer of tissue at the back of the eye that helps us see by turning light into signals sent to the
Diabetes
What is this alert about? In April 2025, the drug company Novo Nordisk told the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that fake versions of Ozempic (semaglutide) were found in the U.S. drug supply. Ozempic is a prescription medicine used to help adults with type 2 diabetes lower
Health and Medical Research News
What Did the Research Discover? Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH) is a condition where dark spots appear on the skin after an injury, inflammation, or irritation. It is especially challenging to treat in people with darker skin tones (Fitzpatrick skin types IV-VI) because their skin naturally has more melanin, which can make
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What Did the Research Discover? Scientists investigated how the 2019-nCoV coronavirus (now known as SARS-CoV-2) spread to humans and whether previous claims about its origins were accurate. Earlier studies suggested that snakes were an intermediate host and that the virus had genetic sequences similar to HIV-1, raising concerns about its
Cancer
What Did the Research Discover? Researchers studied sacituzumab govitecan (SG) as a possible treatment for advanced endometrial cancer (EC) in patients who had already undergone chemotherapy and immunotherapy. The study was part of the TROPiCS-03 trial, which included patients with various metastatic solid tumors. In this phase II study, 41
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What did the research discover? This study explored the link between vitamin D levels and cognitive function in people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Researchers studied 181 MS patients at Policlinico Federico II University Hospital in Naples, Italy, measuring their blood vitamin D levels and assessing their cognitive function using the
2023 Approvals
What is Augtyro prescribed for? Augtyro is prescribed for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer. What is Augtyro and what does it do? Augtyro, pronounced Aug-TYE-ro, (generic name: repotrectinib) is a newly FDA-approved medication for treating a specific type of lung
FDA
For Immediate Release: March 28, 2025Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is providing an at-a-glance summary of news from around the agency: * On Thursday, the FDA’s Learning and Education to ADvance and Empower Rare Disease Drug Developers initiative published two new videos titled “Understanding the Importance of
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Living with rheumatoid arthritis can be challenging, especially with the high cost of biologic treatments. New research from the University of Manchester shows that biosimilars—lower-cost alternatives to biologic drugs—are just as safe and effective for managing RA. This breakthrough could make life