Orphan Drug designation is a status granted to drugs or biologics intended to treat patients with rare conditions, defined as those affecting under 200,000 Americans. According to Pulmonary Hypertension News,…
In 2019, generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars leader Sandoz launched intravenous treprostinil for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). But according to a new media release, generic treprostinil is now…
On March 6, 2021, biopharmaceutical company Altavant Sciences ("Altavant") shared that it had initiated its Phase 2b ELEVATE 2 clinical trial. During the trial, researchers will evaluate rodatristat ethyl ("rodatristat")…
In 2009, the FDA approved Tyvaso (treprostinil) Inhalation Solution to reduce symptoms associated with Group 1 pulmonary hypertension (PH), also known as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). Beyond symptom reduction, the…
Welcome to the Rare Classroom, a new series from Patient Worthy. Rare Classroom is designed for the curious reader who wants to get informed on some of the rarest, most…
According to a story from businesswire.com, the pharmaceutical company Bayer has recently announced the release of results from its phase IV trial. This trial evaluated the effects of the drug…
As reported in Business Wire; VerSIM Life, a company that uses computational sciences to create novel machine learning to aid drug development, has announced that they are launching a pharmaceutical…
During clinical development, treatments are sometimes first evaluated in healthy volunteers. This is the route that Insmed Incorporated ("Insmed") took with treprostinil palmitil inhalation powder (TPIP). Now, following positive topline…
Aibe Shreve is only four years old, and he has already overcome so many obstacles in his short life. The little boy from Ohio Valley was born with two holes…
Developed by United Therapeutics Corporation ("United") and DEKA Research and Development Corporation ("DEKA"), the Remunity Pump is now commercially available for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). On February…
Growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) is expressed in normal conditions but is overly expressed when cells are under stress. It has multiple roles in different diseases and has been used…
Recently, Pulmonary Hypertension News shared some burgeoning medical news: that the DNMT3B gene has now been linked to the development of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and a rare form of chronic high blood…
by Lauren Taylor from In The Cloud Copy A variance in the amount or makeup of the bacteria in a person’s gut, called dysbiosis, could have strong implications for the…
According to Healio, there is now another health-related issue that can cause more hospitalization and worse quality of life (QOL) in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH): obesity. In the…
In a recent press release, biopharmaceutical company Acceleron Pharma, Inc. ("Acceleron") announced that its investigational drug candidate sotatercept received Orphan designation from the European Commission (EC) for the treatment of…
The United States is coping with an obesity epidemic. It is therefore critical to understand the distribution of body fat and its effect on treatment. A recent article in Healio…
According to Biospace, Acceleron Pharma has presented preliminary data from their ongoing Phase 2 trial of sotatercept, a treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). The study, titled SPECTRA, is designed…
New Trial A Phase 1A trial for GMA301 was completed this year in Australia for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). This trial demonstrated a positive safety profile for a range of…
According to a story from GlobeNewswire, the medical device company SoniVie announced recently that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for its Investigational Device Exemption (IDE).…
Recently, the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson reported that they submitted a New Drug Application (NDA) for intravenously administered UPTRAVI (selexipag). The therapy is designed to treat…
Medical professionals have already discovered a number of genes that play a role in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but according to LabRoots, they have found a new one. The ABCC8…
According to a story from Pharmaceutical Business Review, the pharmaceutical company Bayer has recently announced encouraging findings from its phase 4 clinical study. This trial was testing the drug riociguat…
by Lauren Taylor from In The Cloud Copy Pediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension is a disease in which the blood flow leaving the right side of the heart faces increased resistance…
Acceleron Pharma has released the results from Phase 2 of their PULSAR trial, which studied sotatercept as a treatment for pulmonary arterial hypertension. Researchers are very excited by the positive…
Pulmonary hypertension can be caused by a variety of other conditions, often making it difficult to distinguish. A problem that medical professionals often encounter is differentiating pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)…
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