FDA Convenes Hearing on Pain-Pill Labels
FDA Convenes Hearing on Pain-Pill Labels
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The agency is considering a petition by a group of 35 doctors and pain specialists to include a recommended upper daily dose on the drugs' label and limit the duration of opioid treatment to 90 days. The group, Physicians for Responsible Opioid …
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Apogenix Receives FDA Orphan Drug Designation for Apocept to Treat …
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Apogenix, a spin-out from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), is developing novel protein therapeutics for the treatment of cancer and inflammatory diseases based either on the targeted modulation of apoptosis (programmed cell death) or on …
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Million Gift to Medical Center Enhances New Initiative for Treatment of ALS
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The immediate goal is to seed an array of drug-development programs at pharmaceutical and biotech companies, based on cutting-edge data generated by Target ALS scientists. Target ALS will identify and transfer candidate therapeutic targets—molecular …
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Feeding a Disease With Fake Drugs
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But traveling to the clinics where this treatment is dispensed can be very expensive, especially for poorer patients. Private markets for tuberculosis drugs — where we procured our samples — are often easier to access. For patients in Zambia, for …
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