Biomedtracker interviewed a neurologist based in the United States who currently treats over 1000 patients with chronic neuropathic pain per year to determine his current treatment practices for indications including fibromyalgia and views on the use of opioids and abuse-deterrent opioids.
Biomedtracker performed a 5-question survey of 30 United States neurologists who currently treat patients with chronic neuropathic pain and prescribe opioids to at least some of their patients with chronic neuropathic pain to gauge current use of adjuvants (TCAs, anti-convulsants, SNRIs, SSRIs, and NMDA receptor antagonists) and potential future use of cebranopadol and raxatrigine to treat chronic neuropathic pain.
Biomedtracker performed a 5-question survey of 30 United States primary care physicians who currently treat patients with chronic pain and prescribe opioids to at least some of their patients with chronic pain to gauge current and future use of abuse-deterrent opioids to treat chronic pain.
Biomedtracker interviewed a lung cancer specialist based in the US to determine his views on the non-small cell lung cancer treatment landscape, with a focus on PD-1 immunotherapies.
Diagnostics/diagnostic techniques discussed:
etarfolatide/folic acid, BRCA mutation testing
The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) held the 2014 International Liver Meeting in London from April 9-13. The main focus of this year’s meeting was the clinical use of currently approved and soon-to-be approved, direct-acting antivirals for Hepatitis C.
Eslicarbazepine has been approved in ex-US markets including the EU for years.
We surveyed 10 US Neurologists to determine prelaunch perceptions of Aptiom.
Physicians are starting to use Perjeta (Roche) as an add-on to Herceptin in the adjuvant setting due to a recent change in NCCN (National Comprehensive Cancer Network, an alliance of major cancer centers) guidelines.
Crenezumab data was negative in a Phase II study in mild to moderate AD. The signal in not pre-specified isn’t convincing. These data likely will have ethical implications for the asymptomatic, genetic AD predisposition study in the Columbian trial.
At SfN, they showed some interesting preclinical data on the affect on the 5-HT7 and how it works in some animal models of cognition…especially those injected with PCPA. And you know in depression, they also did what we call the chronic mild stress (CMS)
Palbociclib (PD 0332991): targeting the cell cycle machinery in breast cancer
The prevalence data would suggest that in the US population about 30% of our population has fatty liver or NAFLD and of those 25% may have NASH and of those patients with NASH 25% percent may have fibrosis and progress to cirrhosis. It’s almost a pyramid effect, there may be 80 million Americans walking around with NAFLD, but to climb up to the top of the pyramid and develop cirrhosis would be about 5% of that total population, but that’s still significant because that would mean that the prevalence of cirrhosis [due to NASH] will exceed that of hepatitis C-related cirrhosis ten-fold
Discusses percent not meeting goal and projected usage of PCSK9 and CETP inhibitors in various scenarios based on outcomes data.
Macitentan is a novel dual endothelin receptor antagonist (ERA)
showing sustained receptor occupancy
KOL Highlights Include: The prevalence of cirrhosis due to NASH will far exceed that of cirrhosis due to Hepatitis C. Decreases in NAS score due to liver fat changes are not predictive of beneficial outcomes. Increasing LDL in patients with fatty liver disease is a concern. Results seen in animal models of NAFLD/NASH translate to […]
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