According to a story from mHealth Intelligence, the University of Alabama has found success with using telehealth to check in with kidney disease patients that are on dialysis. Now, it…
According to a story from EurekAlert!, a collaborative study headed by researchers from Yale University has furthered the understanding of the mechanisms and progression of fibrosis (scarring) in patients with…
According to a story from PR Newswire, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Three Lakes Partners have awarded a grant to the tune of $22 million to the Pulmonary…
According to a publication from Scleroderma News, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted Breakthrough Therapy status to Ofev (generic name nintedanib), as a treatment for progressive fibrosing…
According to a story from Financial Buzz, the biotherapeutics company Bellerophon Therapeutics Inc. has recently announced that it has earned Orphan Drug designation from the US Food and Drug Administration…
According to a story from finanzen.at, the drug nintedanib (marketed as Ofev) has officially been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a treatment for interstitial lung…
According to a story from Medical Xpress, the Alberta Health Services' Kaye Edmonton Interstitial Lung Disease Clinic is taking a more patient-centered approach to palliative care for patients with idiopathic…
According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company Altavant Sciences has recently announced that the first patient has been dosed in a phase 2a proof of concept trial. This…
According to a story from Healio, the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Arthritis Advisory Committee recently voted 10-7 in favor of recommending the drug nintedanib as a treatment for…
According to a press release from the San Francisco-based FibroGen, Inc., the first patient has been dosed in the Company's phase 3 clinical study of the experimental drug pamrevlumab for…
According to a story from BioPortfolio, the biopharmaceutical company Genkyotex has recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the company's Investigational New Drug (IND) application.…
According to a publication from the Oklahoma Nursing Times, Kenneth Wyatt celebrated his 80th birthday this past June 4th. The happy occasion also marked almost five months exactly since Wyatt…
According to a story from Pharmaceutical Technology, the drug developer FibroGen's phase 3 clinical trial testing pamrevlumab as a treatment for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis could be in trouble. While the…
At the 2019 American Thoracic Society Conference this year multiple presentations demonstrated the importance of the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation's Patient Registry. About the Registry This registry was created by the Pulmonary…
According to a story from Market Screener, the drug developer Reviva Pharmaceuticals, Inc. recently announced that it has completed a recent meeting with officials from the US Food and Drug…
According to a story from blogs.biomedcentral.com, the findings from the IPF-PRO Registry, which is a US-based registry for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis patients, were recently published. Patient registries are a critical…
According to a story from MD Magazine, the field of scleroderma treatment has seen some recent developments that could have major implications for how patients manage their disease. The latest…
Preclinical data supporting the efficacy of GKT831 as a potential therapy for cholestatic fibrosis has just been published in the Journal of Hepatology. GKT831 GKT831 is both a NOX1 enzyme and…
According to a story from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the company has recently announced positive results from a phase 3 clinical trial testing the company's drug nintedanib (marketed as Ofev)…
According to a story from PR Newswire, the biopharmaceutical company Respivant Sciences has recently announced that it has dosed the first patient in its phase 2b clinical trial. This trial…
According to a story from mirror.co.uk, Professor Selim Cellek is leading a clinical trial that will test a drug combination designed to treat erectile dysfunction associated with Peyronie's disease, a…
Cedric Rutland, a pulmonologist at Pacific Pulmonary Medical Group has shared his experience, research, and thoughts on cognitive bias in an effort to spread awareness for the issue, and hopefully,…
For years FibroGen has been investigating a drug called pamrevlumab. They believe it could be an effective treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), pancreatic cancer, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).…
Nigam Shah and Purvesh Khatri, professors at Stanford University, along with graduate student Madeleine Scott have just announced results from a research study which could be pivotal for those living…
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a rare condition with no known cause and no effective treatments besides a lung transplant. Current therapies focus on slowing progression of the disease but…
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