Tag Archives: Hopes

New Astellas, Seattle Genetics Padcev combo data spark $5.8B sales hopes

Astellas and Seattle Genetics impressed Wall Street last fall when their combination of Padcev and Merck’s Keytruda fought off advanced bladder cancer in previously untreated patients. Friday, the partners presented updated results that look even better. They might even be good enough to snag an expedited regulatory review, analysts say—and at least one market-watcher hiked… Read More »

Breast cancer drug trial raises hopes

A new type of drug that blocks one of cancer’s escape routes from chemotherapy could be used to treat aggressive breast cancers, a study suggests. Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), London, found the drug could boost the response to chemotherapy in cancers that had become resistant in both cells grown in the… Read More »

Diabetic, 33, with erectile dysfunction hopes a 'vampire penis injection' will allow him to conceive

Diabetic, 33, who was left with erectile dysfunction hopes a £1,200 ‘vampire penis injection’ will allow him to start a family with his beloved girlfriend Jimmy Croxton, 33, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when he was 18 years old The condition damaged nerves in Mr Croxton’s penis and he couldn’t perform His ’embarrassing’ problems… Read More »

Stacey Abrams Hopes Medicaid Expansion Can Be a Winning Issue in Rural Georgia

ATLANTA — For the upscale urban audience at a campaign town hall here, it would have been enough for Stacey Abrams to pitch Medicaid expansion as a moral issue — the health-care-as-human-right argument that appeals to progressives everywhere. Instead, Ms. Abrams, the Democrat in the tossup race for Georgia governor, stuck to the pragmatic line… Read More »