Long QT Syndrome: New Home Heart Monitoring Could Save Lives
by Danielle Bradshaw from In The Cloud Copy The University of Manchester’s team of researchers has come up with a new and simple means of monitoring their own electrocardiograms (ECG)…
by Danielle Bradshaw from In The Cloud Copy The University of Manchester’s team of researchers has come up with a new and simple means of monitoring their own electrocardiograms (ECG)…
by Lauren Taylor from In The Cloud Copy Adrenal insufficiency, also called Addison’s disease, is a condition in which the body does not produce adequate amounts of certain necessary hormones.…
by Lauren Taylor from In The Cloud Copy Spinal muscular atrophy or SMA is a genetic disease that affects the central and peripheral nervous systems, as well as voluntary muscle…
According to a story from GlobeNewswire, Exagen, Inc. recently launched a testing panel called AVISE® Vasculitis AAV, which is designed to help physicians get fast and accurate data for patients…
According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company Bristol Myers Squibb Canada recently announced that its medication fedratinib (marketed as INREBIC®) has been approved by Health Canada as a…
Graves' Disease Awareness Month is recognized in July of each year. As part of this year's awareness campaign, the nonprofit organization Prevent Blindness and Horizon Therapeutics collaborated to create the…
This past week, Bristol Myers Squibb shared four-year data from the Phase 3 CheckMate-214 clinical trial. Ultimately, the trial sought to understand the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of Opdivo…
This past week, Cycle Pharma announced FDA approval of a once daily dose of NITYR for patients with hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT-1). According to its prescribing information, NITYR…
Safety of Sweeteners Sweeteners sound like the ideal solution to added sugar. No calories and none of the cons of refined sugar means you can enjoy it in excess right?…
In 2020, September 21-25 will be recognized as Global Immune Thrombocytopenia (ITP) Awareness Week. The week will aim to help spread awareness about ITP around the world both in the…
According to a story from globenewswire.com, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently accepted the New Drug Application (NDA) for arimoclomol. This application is for the use of the…
According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company Aridis Pharmaceuticals, Inc., has recently announced that it has struck an agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in…
According to a story from BioSpace, Ziopharma Oncology, Inc. has recently announced that its investigational therapy Ad-RTS-hIL-12 with veledimex (also called Controlled IL-12) has been given Rare Pediatric Disease designation…
According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company Zogenix, Inc., has recently announced the release of results from a phase 3 clinical trial testing the company's drug fenfluramine (marketed…
According to a story from Newswise, September is recognized as Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month. This includes idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), or disease without an identifiable cause. In the midst of…
According to a story from BioSpace, Genentech (of the Roche Group) has announced its plans to present new data related to its drug satralizumab-mwge (marketed as Enspryng™) at the upcoming…
September 15th, 2020 is recognized as World Lymphoma Awareness Day. This day is dedicated to spreading awareness about lymphoma and falls in the context of Blood Cancer Awareness Month, which…
The third week of September is recognized annually as Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week. This global event is held in order to increase awareness of mitochondrial disease in the medical community…
This year, September 13-19 is being recognized as Balance Awareness Week. Organized by the Vestibular Disorders Association, the goal of this campaign is to help spread awareness among both the…
According to a story from BioSpace, the drug company Plus Therapeutics has recently announced that its investigational therapy Rhenium NanoLiposomes (RNL™) has earned Orphan Drug designation from the US Food…
According to a story from BioSpace, the biopharmaceutical company POXEL SA has recently announced that it has commenced with a phase 2 dose ranging clinical trial which will test the…
According to a story from Buzzfeed News, the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic continues to present new surprises and challenges to the medicine and science communities. In a recent interview, Wayne Sebastianelli, who…
According to a story from BioSpace, the radiopharmaceutical company Clarity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has announced recently that its experimental diagnostic 64Cu-SARTATE™ has earned Rare Pediatric Disease designation from the US Food…
Ionis Pharmaceuticals has just released their findings from a study investigating the effect of IONIS-PKK-LRx and IONIS-PKKRx in hereditary angioedema (HAE) patients with different forms of the disease. These therapies work to reduce…
A new study published in the journal Rheumatology and Therapy examined the effect of baricitinib on Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) patients who have had an inadequate to their methotrexate therapy. Methotrexate and Baricitinib…