Medical conferences often are a platform to showcase new clinical trophies. But that wasn't the case for Merck at this year’s European Society for Medical Oncology meeting. The Big Pharma presented a series of trial flops for its megablockbuster cancer immunotherapy, Keytruda. We'll discuss if the Merck checkpoint inhibitor has reached a bottleneck or if it was just bad luck.
Also under discussion is the monkeypox test Emergency Use Authorization. Because monkeypox continues to spread in the U.S. and worldwide, the FDA granted its first EUA for a diagnostic test. This regulatory path was also used for COVID-19 tests. But the FDA learned a few lessons from the pandemic and hopes the new guidelines will help avoid the problems seen then.
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