First Patient Dosed in Trial of Hypoparathyroidism Treatment, AZP-3601
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First Patient Dosed in Trial of Hypoparathyroidism Treatment, AZP-3601

Amolyt Pharma has recently announced that they have dosed the first patient in their trial of AZP-3601, a treatment for hypoparathyroidism. According to GlobeNewswire, this treatment will adequately address the…

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FDA Grants IDE to Test Experimental Device for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
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FDA Grants IDE to Test Experimental Device for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

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).…

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Trodelvy Gets Orphan Drug Designation as a Glioblastoma Treatment
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Trodelvy Gets Orphan Drug Designation as a Glioblastoma Treatment

According to a story from GlobeNewswire, the biopharmaceutical company Immunomedics, Inc., has recently announced that its medication sacituzumab govitecan-hziy (marketed as Trodelvy) has recently earned Orphan Drug designation from the…

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Gene Therapy Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Sandhoff Disease and Tay-Sachs Disease
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Gene Therapy Receives Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for Sandhoff Disease and Tay-Sachs Disease

According to a story from GlobeNewswire, the gene therapy company Axovant Gene Therapies Ltd. recently announced that its gene therapy AXO-AAV-GM2 has been given Rare Pediatric Disease designation by the…

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First Patient with Alzheimer’s Dosed in Bryostatin-1 Clinical Trial
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First Patient with Alzheimer’s Dosed in Bryostatin-1 Clinical Trial

  Last week, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company Neurotrope announced that the first patient was dosed in a Phase 2 clinical trial to test the safety, efficacy, and tolerability of bryostatin-1…

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Phase 3 Study Results Bring Hope for Children with Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1  
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Phase 3 Study Results Bring Hope for Children with Primary Hyperoxaluria Type 1  

  According to a recent article in BioSpace, young children and infants who have been diagnosed with primary hyperoxaluria type 1 (PH1) are often faced with the use of gastrostomy…

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Experimental WHIM Syndrome Treatment Gets FDA Fast Track Designation
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Experimental WHIM Syndrome Treatment Gets FDA Fast Track Designation

According to a story from GlobeNewswire, the biopharmaceutical company X4 Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has just announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted its investigational product candidate mavorixafor…

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Zeposia as a Treatment for Ulcerative Colitis Shows Positive Results in Phase 3 Trial
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Zeposia as a Treatment for Ulcerative Colitis Shows Positive Results in Phase 3 Trial

According to a story from Pharma Advancement, Bristol Myers Squibb recently announced encouraging findings from a phase 3 clinical trial. This study was testing its drug ozanimod (marketed as Zeposia)…

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Sorrento Therapeutics Has Received FDA Clearance for STI-1499 Trial in Hospitalized Patients With COVID-19

Waking up to the news has one encouraging note, another new day and another new drug is being tested. According to an article in Biospace, the news from Sorrento Therapeutics…

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Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Treatment Receives Fast Track Designation
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Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Treatment Receives Fast Track Designation

The FDA has recently granted the Fast Track designation to AGLE-102, a treatment for dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa. This designation will allow for the treatment to reach patients at a quicker…

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FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Chronic Kidney Disease Treatment
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FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Chronic Kidney Disease Treatment

The FDA has recently granted the Breakthrough Therapy designation to FARXIGA, a chronic kidney disease treatment created by AstraZeneca. This designation will allow for a quicker development, which will hopefully…

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Experimental Gene Therapy Program for Hunter Syndrome (MPS II) Begins Expanding
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Experimental Gene Therapy Program for Hunter Syndrome (MPS II) Begins Expanding

According to a story from PR Newswire, the biotechnology company REGENXBIO Inc. has recently announced plans to expand its RGX-121 developmental program. RGX-121 is being developed as a potential one-time…

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Recurrence-Free Survival in High-Risk Stage III Melanoma With Pembrolizumab Confirmed by Long Term Follow-up
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Recurrence-Free Survival in High-Risk Stage III Melanoma With Pembrolizumab Confirmed by Long Term Follow-up

  According to a recent report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, over one thousand patients with high-risk stage III melanoma were included in the Keynote-054 clinical trial (NCT02362594). The…

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