Disease Indications Articles
A new study has found that introducing efgartigimod alfa as a treatment option in patients with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) who are currently receiving subcutaneous immune globulin (IG) or intravenous IG would result in substantially increased spending in the treatment of CIPD.
A retrospective cohort study has found respiratory syncytial virus infections are associated with substantial morbidity among patients with systemic autoimmune rheumatic diseases, with more than half of infected individuals requiring hospitalization.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Libtayo (cemiplimab-rwlc) for the adjuvant, or postsurgical, treatment of adults with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma at high risk of recurrence after surgery and radiation.
A small study of medical records unexpectedly found that 12 percent of chronic pain patients who were treated with spinal cord stimulation or an implanted pain medicine pump had a white blood cell condition called eosinophilia.
Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology and Columbia University Irving Medical Center have discovered that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, may be an autoimmune disorder.
A recent study showed treatment with intravenous immune globulin following infection from BCMA therapies yielded a 67 percent decrease in infections in patients with multiple myeloma.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded the approval of recombinant von Willebrand factor, marketed as Vonvendi.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the biologics license application for once weekly lecanemab-irmb subcutaneous injection (LEQEMBI IQLIK, pronounced “I Click”) for maintenance dosing.
A new documentary film titled “Dismissed,” which was premiered at the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation’s Bleeding Disorders Conference in Aurora, Colo., features the lived experiences of five women with hemophilia.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Sanofi’s Wayrilz (rilzabrutinib) for adults with persistent or chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) who have had an insufficient response to a previous treatment.
SetPoint System, a neuroimmune modulation device, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat adults with moderately to severely active rheumatoid arthritis who have had an inadequate response, loss of response or intolerance to one or more biological or targeted synthetic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted fast track designation to Nektar Therapeutics’ rezpegaldesleukin to treat alopecia areata (AA) in adult and paediatric patients aged 12 years and older who weigh at least 40 kilograms and are living with severe-to-very severe cases of the autoimmune disease.