Sanofi delivered close to double-digit Q4 2020 business EPS(1) growth at CER
Specialty Care sales grew 18.3%, driven by strong Dupixent
performance (+54.2% to €982 million).
Vaccines up 14.6%, driven by record demand for differentiated influenza vaccines and continued growth of PPH.
General Medicines declined 7.5%, reflecting lower U.S. Diabetes sales, COVID environment and portfolio streamlining.
CHC down 3.0% due to decreased sales of Cough & Cold related portfolio in Europe partially offset by Digestive Health brands.
Leveraged business EPS as the result of prioritization within R&D and continued execution on smart spending initiatives.
Sales down 2.4% and business EPS flat on a reported basis, as a result of the overall adverse impact from foreign currency rates.
February 01, 2021
Use of low-dose rivaroxaban (Xarelto; Bayer/Janssen) plus aspirin improves outcomes in patients with chronic atherosclerotic vascular disease irrespective of body size, a secondary analysis of the COMPASS trial shows.
In that trial, combining rivaroxaban 2.5 mg twice daily and aspirin 100 mg per day reduced the composite of CV death, stroke, or MI at the cost of more major bleeding, and those effects did not vary significantly across categories of body weight or body mass index (BMI), researchers led by Tomasz Guzik, MD, PhD (University of Glasgow, Scotland), report.
The results, published in the February 9, 2021, issue of the
Journal of the American College of Cardiology, “show that this combination of a vascular dose of rivaroxaban with aspirin can be safely used across a broad range of body weights and does not necessitate dose adjustments,” Guzik told TCTMD.
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The American Society of Hematology (ASH), the International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH), National Hemophilia Foundation (NHF), and World Federation of Hemophilia (WFH) have developed joint clinical practice guidelines on the diagnosis and management of von Willebrand Disease (VWD), the world's most common inherited bleeding disorder. The guidelines were published today in Blood Advances.
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A 48-year-old man presents to a medical center in New York City after suddenly developing numbness in his upper left arm, along with weakness, and impairment of positional sensation. He says that for the past 8 hours, he has had severe headaches on the right side of his skull in the back, for which he took ibuprofen. He is right-handed and a nonsmoker.
He notes that he had been diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection about a month earlier, when he went to the same medical center after feeling generally unwell, with fever, low-back pain, and right-sided headache.
At that time, clinicians confirmed COVID-19 via PCR testing. He reports that his symptoms lasted for 12 days, during which he remained quarantined at home, and on day 17, he returned to work.