Sentences with phrase «drugs for diseases»

BioBright, a firm dedicated to creating the smart laboratory of the future, has announced a collaboration with the Wellcome Sanger Institute that could lead to the faster development of drugs for diseases of the immune system like rheumatoid arthritis.

Manufacturing small proteins known as peptides is usually very time - consuming, which has slowed development of new peptide drugs for diseases such as cancer, diabetes, and bacterial infections.

When one is brain - damaged or not too bright to begin with, taking drugs for diseases, has a disease, I don't think they can be held accountable for being depressed and committing suicide.

While most of the attention on pharmaceutical prices has been on new drugs for diseases like cancer, hepatitis C and high cholesterol, there is also growing concern about huge price increases on older drugs, some of them generic, that have long been mainstays of treatment.

Spending on new drugs for those diseases is expected to rise 7 % in 2018, and it's less due to price hikes as it is for the high prices associated with these specialty therapies.

The mice, described in this month's issue of Nature Genetics, also may provide a quick way to screen potential drugs for the disease, a disabling condition that afflicts more than a third of U.S. women over the age of 60.

«The message may be, disease A is underdiagnosed or far more serious than previously believed, and currently used drugs for this disease are highly problematic.»

«We also found differences in the gut microbiota composition between those children taking a disease - modifying drug for their disease compared with those who were not.

There are two forms of drug - resistant tuberculosis important to public health — multidrug - resistant tuberculosis is resistant to more than one of the first - line drugs for the disease, whereas extensively drug - resistant tuberculosis is additionally resistant to fluoroquinolones and at least one of the second - line injectable tuberculosis drugs.

There are no Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-- approved drugs for the disease.

«This project could lead to new therapeutic targets and more effective and safer drugs for the disease.»

But heart failure is still the leading hospital discharge diagnosis and trials for several promising drugs for this disease have been costly failures.

This innovative model allows the researchers to test viable new drugs for this disease, and it provides a potential solution to studying other human disorders of aging in mice.

Imidocarb dipropionate (Imizol, Burroughs Wellcome, Schering - Plough) is the only approved drug for this disease in the USA.

Not exact matches

The acquisition is meant to build on Takeda's forays into drugs for gastrointestinal disorders; TiGenix is on the cusp of securing a European regulatory approval for a treatment for Crohn's disease.

The $ 1.1 billion Alphabet - backed Silicon Valley unicorn 23andMe just pulled off a milestone feat: On Thursday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said the company could sell its genetic tests and accompanying health risk reports for ten different diseases directly to consumers.

Biotech and pharma companies will get a smaller tax credit for developing drugs for rare diseases.

For one thing, «There are a lot of good drugs on the market for heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with FortuFor one thing, «There are a lot of good drugs on the market for heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with Fortufor heart disease right now that come in generic form,» says Neil Lesser, a principal at Deloitte who specializes in the life sciences, in an interview with Fortune.

or, more radically, for posting their genetic data to an anonymized, shared research database that might be used to identify those at risk for certain diseases or to identify those who respond better to specific classes of drugs, from beta blockers to cancer medicines.

• Rani Therapeutics, a San Jose, Calif. - based developer of a pill designed to replace injectable drug delivery for patients suffering from chronic diseases, raised $ 53 million in funding.

In a 564 - person trial, patients whose ovarian cancer recurred (and who had already started treatment with chemotherapy) given Rubraca, part of a new class of cancer drugs called «PARP» inhibitors, lived, on median, for double the amount of time without their disease getting even worse compared with those given a placebo.

And much of the reason its creators felt confident enough to invest all that time, money, and effort — given the small number of patients who might eventually use the medicine — can be traced to the Orphan Drug Act, a 1983 federal law that gave those who develop meds for uncommon diseases longer periods of marketing exclusivity and other financial incentives.

The basic hope is that nference's deep learning tech, combined with the giant swaths of medical data that the Mayo Clinic has, can help pinpoint the existing drugs that may hold the most potential for rare disease patients.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday that any consumers in the U.S. who have store - bought chopped romaine lettuce should throw it away.

One of Martin Shkreli's former companies has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is pledging to ditch its notorious ex-chief's price hike plans for a rare disease drug.

And Marathon barely did any actual clinical legwork to get the drug cleared for Duchenne — it relied on 1990 - era clinical trial data before tacking on just enough study material to win an approval that doesn't even address the root cause of the disease.

But before his arrest, he said he'd use KaloBios as a vehicle to nab another niche drug, this time for treatment of the parasitic infection Chagas disease, and dramatically increase its price to the $ 60,000 to $ 100,000 range after helping it win FDA approval (the drug is approved in other countries and is provided to patients in the U.S. on a special and selective basis).

The financial loss can range from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars, but the health risk is more serious still as consumers who fall for such scams may be counseled to stop or delay conventional treatment for their disease, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

• Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, a New Haven, Conn. - based neurological disease drug developer, set terms for its IPO.

The decision comes on the heels of a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 20for Health Statistics, an agency of the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 20For Disease Control and Prevention, that shows the rate of estimated drug overdose deaths increased in the third quarter of 2016 and outpaced the rate of drug - related deaths over the same period in 2015.

The company is selling a thing (the kit) by saying it can provide «health reports on 254 diseases and conditions,» including categories such as «carrier status,» «health risks,» and «drug response,» and specifically as a «first step in prevention» that enables users to «take steps toward mitigating serious diseases» such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and breast cancer...» Most of the uses «listed on your website, a list that has grown over time,» the FDA writes, «are medical device uses [for the] Personal Genome Service.»

The price is for Spark Therapeutics» Luxturna, approved by the Food and Drug Administration in December to treat a rare, inherited retinal disease that can lead to blindness.

The saga of Sarepta Therapeutics» rare disease drug Exondys 51, the first - ever treatment for the degenerative movement disorder Duchenne muscular dystrophy, has taken yet another turn.

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

The memory - eating disease, expected to afflict 15 million Americans by 2060 (and tens of millions more around the world as life expectancy increases), has no cure; a new drug for the condition hasn't been approved in well over a decade; initially promising experimental treatments seem to be failing with clockwork regularity; and there's not even a definitive consensus on what, exactly, biopharma companies should focus on while developing Alzheimer's medicines.

Shares of biotech Spark Therapeutics rose 4.5 % in early Monday trading after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agreed to review its gene therapy for vision loss patients who have vision loss due to a rare genetic condition called biallelic RPE65 - mediated inherited retinal disease (IRD).

At the hearing, Dr. David Kimberlin, who specializes in pediatric infectious disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, spoke of a situation in September, around the time Daraprim's price went up after Turing bought the rights to the drug, in which he found barriers to getting the drug because the monthly cost for four tablets suddenly spiked to $ 3,000 from $ 54.

«Beyond giving us so much data to explore, being able to show that depression is a brain disease, that there is biology associated with it, I think that's really critical,» Roy Perlis, the director of the Center for Experimental Drugs and Diagnostics at Massachusetts General Hospital, told Business Insider in 2016.

UniQure, for example, has developed a drug called Glybera, which is essentially a virus that reverses the effects of LPLD, a disease that prevents people from breaking down fats and can cause increased risk of pancreatitis.

That could be key for therapies that tend to be hard to deliver, such as drugs to treat gastrointestinal diseases where Suono is starting out.

Few diseases have been as difficult for drug companies to conquer as Alzheimer's.

* Lowering the cost of health care through initiatives in prevention, chronic disease treatment, negotiated discounts for drugs through Medicare, and improved information technology.

Approved treatments included gene therapies and the first new drugs for rare diseases in many years.

In March, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BLINCYTO for the treatment of adults and children with B - cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia in first or second complete remission with minimal residual disease (MRD) greater than or equal to 0.1 percent.

Kevin Lustig, founder of Assay Depot Lustig founded Assay Depot on the belief that empowering scientists will improve innovation and expedite drug discovery for the world's rarest diseases.

HHS houses everything from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)-- which is tasked with running major national health care programs like Medicare, Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Obamacare — to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the National Institutes for Health (NIH), the Indian Health Service (IHS), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

CalciMedica is a privately - held, clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on CRAC channel drug discovery and development for the treatment of acute and chronic inflammatory diseases.

Approved by the FDA in 2011 for metastatic melanoma, Yervoy was the first drug to offer a survival benefit to patients with that disease.

«Hitler was not insane or deranged, or suffering from drug - induced delusions,» he writes, «or laboring under the effects of some chronic disease such as syphilis, or acting in an unresolved hypnotic trance: on the contrary, he was sane according to any reasonable definition of the term, and fully responsible for his actions.»

Perhaps this will include research and development of drugs for other diseases, albeit with fewer researchers, but to date, neither the amount the company will save nor its specific use of these freed - up resources has been detailed.