CHMP meeting highlights: April 2024
In its April meeting, the EMA’s human medicines committee recommended eight new medicines, including treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
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In its April meeting, the EMA’s human medicines committee recommended eight new medicines, including treatments for cancer and autoimmune diseases.
A £2.9 million trial, the first adaptive platform trial studying flu treatments, could reduce serious illness in patients.
WHO recommends IL-6 antagonists plus corticosteroids for hospitalised COVID-19 patients based on their ability to reduce risk of death and the need for mechanical ventilation.
The monoclonal antibody Actemra (tocilizumab) was approved for emergency use in hospitalised paediatric and adult COVID-19 patients based on results from four clinical trials.
Find out what the WHO has to say about the use of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 prevention and the results of a severe COVID-19 pneumonia trial with tocilizumab.
IL-6 receptor antagonists tocilizumab and sarilumab have a significant impact on COVID-19 patient mortality, a study has shown.
Researchers have shown that symptoms in patients experiencing severe COVID-19 improved when given either sarilumab or tocilizumab, interleukin-6 inhibitors.
A DNDi-commissioned report on the Malaysian reaction to COVID-19 has revealed the strengths and weaknesses of the country’s response.
Patients who received tocilizumab in the retrospective, single-centre study were 45 percent less like to die and more likely to come off ventilation within 28 days.
Gilead Sciences has said it will initiate clinical trials in August to test an inhaled formulation of remdesivir, a potential COVID-19 therapy.
Professor Saad Shakir explains why cytokine storms occur in COVID-19 patients and suggests potential therapies for the symptoms of the coronavirus.