Thursday, October 13, 2016

9項C肝炎藥 FDA提出警告(增加B肝炎復發風險): Daklinza/ Epclusa/ Harvoni/ Olysio/ Sovaldi/ Technivie/ Viekira Pak/ Viekira Pak XR/ Zepatier

FDA引用港研究成果 警告抗病毒藥治丙肝或令乙肝復發 星島日報星島日報【星島日報報道】美國食品藥物管理局(FDA於本月4日發布最新藥物安全警告,指若丙型肝炎病人同時感染乙型肝炎,他們在接受抗病毒藥品(Directly Acting Antivirals, DAAs )治療丙肝時,或會增加乙肝復發的風險FDA建議醫生在使用DAAs為病人治療丙肝時,應先篩查病人是否同時感染乙肝,若同時感染兩種肝炎病毒 ,應在治療丙肝的同時以及完成治療後,定期監測乙肝復發的風險。FDA是次作出的藥物安全警告和建議,採納自肝臟權威、香港天下仁心醫療集團創辦人廖家傑醫生及其團隊發表在美國腸胃科學會期刊Clinical Gastroerology & Hepatology的最新研究。負責研究的肝臟專科醫生王程指,是次研究於內地兩間醫院進行,招募了327名丙肝病人,其中10人同時是乙肝感染顯性患者,另有124人是乙肝感染隱性患者,其餘並非乙肝帶菌者。124隱性患者中,經DAAs治療後沒出現異常情況,10名顯性患者中,則有3人有不同程度的乙肝復發,即乙肝病毒量上升100倍、乙肝炎指數增2倍,其中有人更嚴重至肝衰竭,需住院一個月。她解釋原理指,丙肝病毒可以通過患者的免疫系統,抑制乙肝病毒的複製,故當丙肝病毒被DAAs清除後,乙肝病毒會因免疫控制削弱而被激活。廖家傑表示,DAAs治癒丙肝的成功率高達90%,安全性相當高,過去沒曾發現副作用,而團隊是次研究則發現了其首個副作用。他料DAAs將於年底在中國註冊,隨著中國有3000萬名丙肝帶菌者,當中3%90萬人同時患有乙肝,遂認為FDA的是次警告有助提升他們警覺。他透露,相關團隊將與亞太區其他地區包括台灣、中國、蒙古、巴基斯坦、印度和馬來西亞合作,進行一個超過300人的臨牀測試,料最快2018年展開。
HCV Drugs May Reactivate HBV, FDA Warns  Robert Lowes  Disclosures | October 04, 2016  Patients with a past or current hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection can experience sometimes fatal HBV reactivation if they take any of nine direct-acting antivirals for hepatitis virus C (HCV) infection, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today. The agency will require a boxed warning for the drugs advising clinicians to screen patients for evidence of a past or current HBV infection before ordering antiviral treatment for HCV. The nine direct-acting antivirals prevent HCV from multiplying, and usually cure it. The FDA said in a news release that it had identified 24 cases of HBV reactivation in coinfected patients treated with these antivirals from November 22, 2013, to July 18, 2016, in reports to the agency and published literature. Two patients died, and one needed a liver transplant. "The mechanism through which HBV reactivation occurs with (direct-acting antivirals) is currently unknown," the FDA stated. It noted that clinical trials for the HCV drugs in question did not report HBV reactivation because they excluded patients infected with HBV. Flare-ups of inactive or once-resolved HBV with direct-acting antivirals have rung alarm bells before. In March, the European Medicines Agency announced that it had launched a review of six direct-acting antivirals for HCV on the basis of reports of HBV reactivation in individuals infected with both viruses. The study will evaluate how widespread HBV reactivation is in such patients and what can be done to optimize treatment.  And just last month, the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the Infectious Diseases Society of American issued updated guidelines that advise clinicians not to prescribe direct-acting antivirals to patients with HCV until the patients are screened for HBV, all because the societies were hearing about HBV reactivation in coinfected patients treated with the drugs. If patients who test positive for HBV warrant treatment, they should begin that treatment before or at the same time they start to receive direct-acting antivirals for HCV, according to the guidelines. Raymond Chung, MD, co-chair of the panel that produced the guidelines and director of hepatology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said HBV reactivation may result from HCV clearance rather than a drug-specific toxicity. More information about today's announcement is available on the FDA website. To report any problems with direct-acting antiviral drugs for HCV, contact MedWatch, the FDA's safety information and adverse event reporting program, by telephone at 1-800-FDA-1088; byfax1-800-FDA-0178;online https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm; with postage-paid FDA form 3500, available at http://www.fda.gov/MedWatch/getforms.htm; or by mail to MedWatch, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, Maryland 20852-9787.
Brand Name
Active Ingredient(s)
Drug Manufacturer
Daklinza
Daclatasvir
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Epclusa
Sofosbuvir and velpatasvir
Gilead Sciences
Harvoni
Ledipasvir and sofosbuvir
Gilead Sciences
Olysio
Simeprevir
Janssen
Sovaldi
Sofosbuvir
Gilead Sciences
Technivie
Ombitasvir and paritaprevir and ritonavir
AbbVie
Viekira Pak
Dasabuvir and ombitasvir and paritaprevir and ritonavir
AbbVie
Viekira Pak XR
Dasabuvir and ombitasvir and paritaprevir and ritonavir
AbbVie
Zepatier
eEbasvir and grazoprevir
Merck Sharp Dohme
Source: FDA


醫療人工智慧: 百度醫療大腦 PK Google DeepMind和IBM Watson

百度今推醫療大腦 人工智慧結合醫療 20161011 19:15 賴昭男 新浪科技報導,百度今(11)日推出「百度醫療大腦」,正式將人工智慧技術應用到醫療健康行業。百度醫療事業部總經理李政表示,百度醫療大腦的對標產品是GoogleIBM的同類產。據悉,百度醫療大腦將透過醫療大數據、專業文獻採集與分析,模擬醫生問診流程,與使用者多次交流,並依據使用者的症狀,提出可能出現的問題,反復驗證並給出最終建議。看診過程中,百度醫療大腦可收集、彙整、分類、整理病患的症狀描述,輔助基層醫生完成問診。同時,百度醫療大腦未來也將打造開放的醫療智慧平台。(工商)

Artificial Intelligence Fights Breast Cancer – Google DeepMind and IBM Watson in Healthcare

By Shudeep Chandrasekhar - August 31, 2016315 Over the past few weeks I've written several articles on the good and bad of artificial intelligence. On the good side there are projects that make our lives easier; on the bad, there are things that could end our lives. But possibly the most useful of all artificial intelligence applications is what IBM Watson and Google DeepMind are doing in the area of oncology, or cancer treatment.

How Prevalent is Breast Cancer?  According to the World Cancer Research Fund International, breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, with nearly 1.7 million new cases diagnosed in 2012. There's no recent data on this, but it is known that "the highest incidence of breast cancer was in Northern America and Oceania; and the lowest incidence in Asia and Africa." One of the things IBM Watson helps with is to research everything – and I mean EVERYTHING – ever published on a single type of cancer, compare it with medical images and test results for a particular patient with breast cancer, and recommend the best course of treatment. It even suggest the best clinical trials that the patient can go on that has the highest probability of success. This capability saves doctors and medical technicians hours of research before they can recommend the best treatment for a patient.

Other Cancers and Diseases  Google DeepMind, on the other hand, is focusing on head and neck cancers, which typically take hours of preparation before technicians can prepare a "map" of where radiotherapy can be applied. This prevents any damage to surrounding healthy tissue. Another are that DeepMind is working on is diagnosing eye diseases using retinal scan images. It works very similar to IBM Watson in that it will compare the patient's retinal scans with millions of anonymized images from other patients with all types of eye diseases to find the best match.

Implications for Healthcare  When I interviewed IBM's Deborah DiSanzo a couple of months ago, she indicated that there was $800 BILLION being wasted in the healthcare segment. Much of this waste is in the form of labor-intensive tasks, unnecessary tests and so on. The purpose of IBM Watson Health is to not only help reduce this wastage, but also make it easier for doctors to go through billions of medical images and accurately diagnose a patient's condition. But Watson goes one step further and even recommends the best type of treatment, and that includes any current clinical trials being conducted by pharmaceutical companies. At the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Assistant Professor of Leukemia Dr. Courtney DiNardo uses IBM's Watson cognitive system while consulting with patient Rich Ware, on October 18, 2013. Starting with the fight against Leukemia, IBM's Watson will help MD Anderson physicians develop, observe and fine tune cancer treatment plans, match patients with clinical trials and recognize adverse effects during ongoing care. At the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Assistant Professor of Leukemia Dr. Courtney DiNardo uses IBM's Watson cognitive system while consulting with patient Rich Ware, on October 18, 2013. Starting with the fight against Leukemia, IBM's Watson will help MD Anderson physicians develop, observe and fine tune cancer treatment plans, match patients with clinical trials and recognize adverse effects during ongoing care. Cost and time savings aside, the introduction of artificial intelligence in the healthcare segment will contribute immensely to the accuracy of diagnosis and identifying the right treatment for a particular disease. Artificial intelligence is already permeating our daily lives in ways we don't even realize, but this is one of the applications that I feel will change the way the entire healthcare system works. More on that soon, so watch this space.

佰研 營收19個月來新低

生技哀嚎 岱宇、佰研重傷 2016-10-11 14:07聯合晚報 記者嚴雅芳/台北報導 生技股今日回檔力道強勁,掛牌新股岱宇1598盤中慘摔跌停,來到40.98元,創掛牌來新低,上櫃股佰研(32059月營收不如預期,創下19個月來新低,也成空方箭靶,盤中股價跌停鎖死。僅9月營收成長的盛弘(8403)以及9月營收創下新高的金可-KY8406)股價相對抗跌,盤中維持紅盤震盪。盛弘公布9月合併營收為2.07億元,較上月成長11.25%,並較去年同期成長21.25%。累計前3季合併營收為1,7.16億元,年增率10.51%公司表示,受惠集團醫療價值鍊整合效益的發揮,帶動前3季合併營收穩定成長。

智擎 列注意股票 (借券賣出成交量…放大11倍..)

智擎、精測等7 列注意股票 20161012 智擎:近六個營業日(自當日之前一個營業日起)之借券賣出成交量占總成交量比率達9.7%,當日之前一個營業日借券賣出成交量較最近六十個營業日之日平均借券賣出成交量放大為11倍(第十二款),當日收盤價243.5,本益比為148.48 (工商時報)

藉中國反貪腐政策! 合富 層峰計畫3.33%滲透率 強化中….

合富9月營收2.44億,月減5%Q4審慎樂觀MoneyDJ新聞 2016-10-11 15:54:43 記者 新聞中心 報導 合富醫療(4745)公布9月合併營收2.44億元,月減5.3%,較去年同期減少12%;第三季營收6.8億元,季減11%,年減10%;累計19月合併營收為22.05億元,較去年同期的24.23億元減少9%。但合富也指出,今年以來因人民幣貶值與新台幣升值因素,匯率因素對營收造成不利影響,但從人民幣營收計算來看,今年累計13季則較去年同期實際成長1.54%。合富-KY指出,根據中國醫院市場現況,目前加入層峰計畫之醫院有200家以上,從中國醫療等級查詢系統數據顯示,中國二級甲等以上(含軍隊醫院及中醫院)醫院共有超過6,000家,凸顯目前層峰計畫的市場滲透率僅約3.33%,未來市場成長空間極大。由於醫療體系向來是為封閉型的銷售市場,也因此成為中國政府反貪腐政策的主要目標之一,層峰計畫因可透過客觀第三者身分,替醫院在眾多供應商的對外採購系統中建立公平比價與審查機制,因此在政策效果下帶動市場商機起飛,更多公司投入開發使市場快速成長,每年加入層峰計畫醫院成長率皆保持50%以上的水準,也創造合富-KY每年穩定的獲利成長表現。 合富表示,自2008年成為中國首家開創層峰計畫的醫材公司,不但具有完整的醫療器材、檢測試劑及相關零組件的物流管理與統包銷售服務,並提供醫院更多元化與全面性的附加價值升級服務,像是幫助醫院替檢測試劑良率的把關,透過兩岸雙邊交流提升中國醫療技術及醫學素質、優質團隊,以及替醫院爭取最新檢測試劑商品等。因此隨著投入層峰計畫的醫院家數保持高速成長,未來在各醫院追求更佳醫療體系品質與服務能力的競爭環境下,將對合富-KY的專業及技術能力需求大幅提升,創造更為有利的長期銷售成長環境。展望2016年第四季,合富-KY維持審慎樂觀看法。由於中國醫院加入層峰計畫的市場滲透率保持快速提升,有助於合富-KY簽約合作醫院家數自今年第三季的50家在未來保持10的成長率,創造營運良好的成長動能;另一方面,合富-KY代理Tear Science乾眼症檢查儀器設備今年可望銷售達50台水準,第四季進入出貨高峰期間,也可望成為第四季業績有利的成長動能挹注來源,乾眼症檢查設備已經獲得大陸衛計委主管單位及眼科領域多位領銜專家認同,即將開啟一次全國性多點臨床研究,預計會為接下來半年帶動數十台的商機。

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