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Preventable Premature Death Rates Higher in Nonmetropolitan Counties
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 -- Nonmetropolitan counties had higher percentages of preventable premature deaths from the five leading causes of death during 2010 to...
Persistent Health Differences Seen Between Females and Males
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 -- From 1990 to 2021, there were persistent health differences between females and males, according to a study published online May 1 in...
Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Is Undertreated
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 -- Underassessment and undertreatment of chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) is seen globally, according to a study published online May 1 in...
Aspirin Provides No Benefit for Breast Cancer Recurrence, Survival
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 -- Among participants with high-risk nonmetastatic breast cancer, daily aspirin use did not improve the risk for breast cancer recurrence...
Gas Stoves Could Leave Your Lungs Vulnerable to Nitrogen Dioxide
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 -- People in homes with gas or propane stoves regularly breathe in unhealthy levels of nitrogen dioxide, a new study says.Typical use of...
Key Therapy Equally Effective for Women, Men With Narrowed Leg Arteries
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 -- Peripheral artery disease (PAD) involves a debilitating narrowing of arteries in the legs, and the National Institutes of Health...
Plant-Based Diet May Aid Prostate Cancer Outcomes
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 -- Consuming a primarily plant-based diet may be associated with better cancer-specific health outcomes among men with prostate cancer...
Doctors Describe Texas Dairy Farm Worker's Case of Bird Flu
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 -- Doctors in Texas are describing the only known human case of H5N1 avian flu connected to the ongoing outbreak of the disease in dairy...
AI Might Spot Rare Diseases in Patients Years Earlier
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 -- Artificial intelligence might be able to identify patients who have rare diseases years earlier than they would typically be diagnosed...
An Orangutan Healed Himself With Medicinal Plant
FRIDAY, May 3, 2024 -- Primates are capable of tending to wounds using medicinal plants, a new case report says. A male Sumatran orangutan treated a facial...
Neurocrine Biosciences Announces U.S. FDA Approval of Ingrezza Sprinkle (valbenazine) Capsules
SAN DIEGO, April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: NBIX) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved...
FDA Approves Libervant (diazepam) Buccal Film for the Treatment of Seizure Clusters in Pediatric Patients Ages 2-5 Years
WARREN, N.J., April 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: AQST) (“Aquestive” or the “Company”), a...
FDA Approves Xolremdi (mavorixafor) for Use in Patients with WHIM Syndrome
BOSTON, April 29, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- X4 Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: XFOR), a company driven to improve the lives of people with rare diseases of the immune...
FDA Grants Full Approval for Tivdak to Treat Recurrent or Metastatic Cervical Cancer
NEW YORK & COPENHAGEN, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE) April 29, 2024 -- Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and Genmab A/S (Nasdaq: GMAB) today announced the U.S. Food and...
FDA Approves Hercessi (trastuzumab-strf), a Biosimilar to Herceptin
DURHAM, N.C., April 29, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Accord BioPharma, Inc., the U.S. specialty division of Intas Pharmaceuticals, Ltd., focused on the development of...
Abeona Therapeutics Provides Regulatory Update on Pz-cel
CLEVELAND, April 22, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Abeona Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq: ABEO) today announced a regulatory update for prademagene zamikeracel (pz-cel)...
Supernus Provides Regulatory Update for SPN-830
ROCKVILLE, Md., April 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUPN), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and...
Stealth Biotherapeutics Announces FDA Acceptance of New Drug Application for Elamipretide for the Treatment of Barth Syndrome
NEEDHAM, Mass., April 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Stealth BioTherapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and...
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Completes Zanidatamab Biologics License Application for Previously Treated HER2-Positive Metastatic Biliary Tract Cancer
DUBLIN, April 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Jazz Pharmaceuticals plc (Nasdaq: JAZZ) today announced that the company has completed the rolling submission of a...
Datopotamab Deruxtecan Biologics License Application Accepted in the US for Patients with Previously Treated Metastatic HR-Positive, HER2-Negative Breast Cancer
2 April 2024 -- AstraZeneca and Daiichi Sankyo’s Biologics License Application (BLA) for datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd) has been accepted in the US...
Phase 2 data for Erleada plus androgen deprivation therapy following radical prostatectomy in patients with high-risk localized prostate cancer results published
SAN ANTONIO, May 3, 2024. Johnson & Johnson announced today results from the open-label, single-arm Phase 2 Apa-RP study evaluating adjuvant treatment with...
Amolyt Pharma Granted FDA Fast Track Designation for Eneboparatide for the Treatment of Hypoparathyroidism
Lyon, France, and Cambridge, MA, May 2, 2024 — Amolyt Pharma, a global company specialized in developing therapeutic peptides for rare endocrine and...
Gilgamesh Announces Initiation of Phase 2a Trial of GM-1020 in Major Depressive Disorder
NEW YORK, May 1, 2024. Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage neuroscience company committed to developing best-in-class, rapid-acting treatments for...
Scientists Discover How an Essential Nutrient Enters the Brain
May 1, 2024 -- Researchers have discovered that choline, an essential nutrient vital for brain health, is actively transported from the bloodstream into the...
NRx Pharmaceuticals Announces Promising Findings in Phase 2b/3 Clinical Trial of NRX-101 vs. Lurasidone for Treatment of Suicidal Bipolar Depression
RADNOR, Pa., April 30, 2024, NRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ("NRx Pharmaceuticals", the "Company"), a clinical stage pharmaceutical company today that its...
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