Controlled ingestion of peanut protein could help build tolerance in peanut allergy sufferers. Authors of a new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine have said that an oral immunotherapy drug they tested could be the first FDA-approved medication of its kind for people with peanut allergy. The medication, called AR101, is derived [...]
Cardiff University has formed a drug discovery collaboration with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) to identify new approaches for treating schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. The collaboration will combine the university’s large-scale genomic data, and world-class expertise in psychiatric genetics, genomics, and neuroscience, with Takeda’s extensive drug discovery and clinical development capabilities. ‘Recent developments in [...]
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Aemcolo (rifamycin), an antibacterial drug indicated for the treatment of adult patients with travellers’ diarrhoea caused by non-invasive strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli), not complicated by fever or blood in the stool. ‘Travellers’ diarrhoea affects millions of people each year and having treatment options for [...]
