FDA Approves Drug to Treat Malaria

The  U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved intravenous (IV) artesunate to treat patients with severe malaria. The treatment should always be followed by a complete treatment course of an appropriate oral antimalarial regimen. Until now, IV artesunate...

Protalix’ Fabry Disease Clinical Program

  Dror Bashan, President and CEO of Protalix Biotherapeutics talks about the company’s Fabry disease pipeline, that includes pegunigalsidase alfa, a plant based enzyme replacement therapy, that is currently under investigation in numerous clinical trials to...

Treatment of AML in the Elderly Has Changed Significantly

  Courtney  DiNardo, MD, Associate Professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains how treatment strategies have changed for managing elderly patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). AML is a rare blood cancer that tends to occur more...

FDA Approves New First-line Therapy for Rare Lung Cancer

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Alunbrig (brigatinib) as first-line therapy to treat adults with a rare form of lung cancer—anaplastic lymphoma kinase-positive (ALK+) metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Approximately 3-5% of...