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Q&A: Liquid crystal nanoparticles enhance antibiotics to reduce CF lung infections
19 Apr 2024 14:45 GMT
… addition to suffering with cystic fibrosis, patients with this condition … Pharmaceutical Innovation and head of the nanostructure and drug … of lung infection.
CF treatment includes a combination of … will perform in treating patients with CF and lung infections …
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Emory University receives $3.1 million NIH grant to improve quality of life for people with cystic fibrosis
19 Apr 2024 00:36 GMT
… lives of people with cystic fibrosis (CF), but those living with … targets to prevent and treat symptoms. To our knowledge … and Health Equity in Cystic Fibrosis (PULSE – CF)," will be … management and individualize treatment for people with CF.
The study …
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‘I had to do an 80-mile trip’: people in UK describe stress of drug shortages
18 Apr 2024 17:28 GMT
… Tyne and Wear, has cystic fibrosis and requires medication that allows him to … drug he takes, and once was unable to get his medication … effects of going without the drug are much graver than taking … to seven or eight different pharmacies and none of them had …
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Does This Acquisition Make Vertex Pharmaceuticals Stock a Buy?
18 Apr 2024 12:47 GMT
… pipeline.
Biotech giant Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX -0.27%) … . Povetacicept is a potential treatment for IgA nephropathy (IgAN). … for its leading candidate in treating IgAN. In the study … Vertex's next-gen cystic fibrosis (CF) medicine. Both were positive …
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Are your prescription drugs affordable? Colorado board wants feedback on these 2
18 Apr 2024 00:40 GMT
… two under review.
Cosentyx, which treats psoriasis, and Stelara, for Crohn … board recently declared the arthritis medication Enbrel unaffordable and moved to … court.
Another two drugs — the HIV treatment Genvoya and the cystic fibrosis drug Trikafta — were …
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Pediatric Pulmonologist Leads Translational Research to Treat Chronic Airway Infections in children with Cystic Fibrosis
15 Apr 2024 16:16 GMT
… summer from Stanford University, studies cystic fibrosis (CF), a genetic disorder that affects … can make infections harder to treat by binding to certain antibiotics … guide treatment. “My plan is to eventually launch a clinical trial to …
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Need for Pharmacogenomic Testing in Mental Health Care Explored at AMCP 2024
17 Apr 2024 15:43 GMT
… of many medications and mitigating adverse drug reactions ( … concluded that successive pharmacological treatments had diminished clinical … (GUIDED) trial. This randomized, controlled trial analyzed more … with difficult-to-treat depression experienced greater …
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Secret deals with pharma sector make up more than half of Belgium's drugs spending
16 Apr 2024 08:30 GMT
… for innovative drugs. These include Zolgensma, the hugely expensive drug for a … Pia, and Kaftrio, used to treat cystic fibrosis.
The contracts also benefit the … the drugs budget went to concluding secret contracts with the pharma industry …
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Chinese company under congressional scrutiny makes key US drugs
15 Apr 2024 20:52 GMT
… pharmaceutical industry, which is already struggling with widespread drug … Shanghai and Changzhou to treat cystic fibrosis, a deadly disease … thick mucus. The treatment is credited with clearing … San Francisco pulmonologist who treats children with the …
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Chinese pharma firm WuXi that makes life-saving cancer drugs accused of STEALING American's genetic information
15 Apr 2024 16:31 GMT
… pharmaceutical companies base their medications on, some of which help treat cancer and cystic fibrosis … as Imbruvica, a leukemia treatment from Janssen and AbbVie … behind 19 biosimilar drugs, or drugs that are derived … the rights to the drug.
‘But they may …