Company Releases Early Data and Plans to Boost Dose in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Trial
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Company Releases Early Data and Plans to Boost Dose in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Trial

According to a story from pm360online.com, the life sciences company Solid Biosciences has released some preliminary findings from its Phase 1/2 clinical trial of SGT-001. This investigational product is in…

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Company Plans Extension Study for Phase 3 Trial of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Drug
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Company Plans Extension Study for Phase 3 Trial of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Drug

According to a story from pm360online.com, the Orion Corporation, a pharmaceutical company based in Finland, has recently announced that it plans to continue its Phase 3 trial of levosimendan as…

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Company Earns Orphan Drug Designation for Autoimmune Hepatitis From the FDA
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Company Earns Orphan Drug Designation for Autoimmune Hepatitis From the FDA

According to a story from finanznachrichten.de, the Swedish drug company Calliditas Therapeutics has recently announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given one of the company's experimental drugs…

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Potential Gene Therapy for Late Infantile Batten Disease Earns Rare Pediatric Disease Designation

According to a story from BioSpace, the biotechnology company REGENXBIO, Inc. recently announced that its experimental gene therapy candidate called RGX-181 has been granted Rare Pediatric Disease designation from the…

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Why is it Difficult to Diagnose Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)?
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Why is it Difficult to Diagnose Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP)?

According to a story from WebMD, the rare nervous system disorder chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy is notorious for being difficult to diagnose. Many rare diseases can be challenging to identify.…

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Possible Treatment for Niemann-Pick Disease Type C Performs Well in Clinical Trial
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Possible Treatment for Niemann-Pick Disease Type C Performs Well in Clinical Trial

According to a story from labiotech.eu, the biotechnology company Orphazyme has been developing an experimental therapy for Niemann-Pick disease type C. In a recent Phase 2/3 clinical trial, the investigational…

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Arkansas Bill Aims to Add Spinal Muscular Atrophy to The State’s Newborn Screenings
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Arkansas Bill Aims to Add Spinal Muscular Atrophy to The State’s Newborn Screenings

According to a story from arkansasonline.com, Rep. Julie Mayberry R-Hensley of the Arkansas General Assembly is sponsoring House Bill 1074. This legislation proposes adding the rare and potentially fatal genetic…

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Xenon Issues Updates on Two of Its Investigational Drug Candidates
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Xenon Issues Updates on Two of Its Investigational Drug Candidates

According to a story from globenewswire.com, the biopharmaceutical company Xenon Pharmaceuticals, Inc., recently announced the latest updates on the progress of two of its experimental products. The first is called…

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Results of Levodopa Study Highlight Why Better Parkinson’s Disease Therapies are Needed
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Results of Levodopa Study Highlight Why Better Parkinson’s Disease Therapies are Needed

According to a story from Parkinson's News Today, a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine highlights the key weakness of Levodopa, one of the most common treatments…

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Recently Approved Drug Ultomiris Performs Well in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Trial
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Recently Approved Drug Ultomiris Performs Well in Atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome Trial

According to a story from statnews.com, the biotechnology company Alexion Pharmaceuticals recently announced that its product Ultomiris, which was recently approved as a treatment for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria, was also…

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Doctor With Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Continues to Make Progress in Researching His Own Disease
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Doctor With Idiopathic Multicentric Castleman Disease Continues to Make Progress in Researching His Own Disease

According to a story from the Philly Voice, it has been nearly nine years since Dr. David Fajgenbaum was first diagnosed with idiopathic multicentric Castleman disease. This immune system disorder…

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Nerve Damage Blocking Gene Therapy Could be Useful in a Variety of Rare Diseases
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Nerve Damage Blocking Gene Therapy Could be Useful in a Variety of Rare Diseases

According to a story from brightsurf.com, a team from the Washington University School of Medicine, based in St. Louis, has succesfully developed a gene therapy that appears to prevent damage…

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