Congressmen Introduce Bill to Help Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Patients and Others
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Congressmen Introduce Bill to Help Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy Patients and Others

According to a story from the website of Oregon rep Earl Blumenauer, Blumenauer (D-OR) along with fellow congressmen George Holding (R-NC) and G. K. Butterfield (D-NC) have introduced a bill…

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Program Established by the NIH to Help Rare Disease Advocacy Groups Start Patient Registries

The Beginnings Anne Pariser worked for 16 years at the FDA. For part of that time, she was a team leader for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research where…

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Experimental Drug for Sickle Cell Disease Earns Fast Track Designation

According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company Imara, Inc. has recently announced that its experimental product candidate IMR-687 has earned Fast Track designation from the US Food and…

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Transthyretin-Mediated Amyloidosis (ATTR-CM); After Nine Years Pfizer Wins FDA Breakthrough Designation

It has been nine years since Pfizer acquired the drugs vyndagel and vyndamax. According to a report in Biospace, based on the FDA’s recent approval of the two drugs to treat transthyretin-mediated…

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