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Regulator and Funder? FDA’s Orphan Products Grants Program awards significant funding to help move promising treatments through clinical development

FDA Law Blog

These have included clinical trials for rare diseases across metabolic (n=5), oncology (n=5), cardiology (n=3), dermatology (n=3), pulmonary (n=3), hematology (n=2), hepatology (n=2), ocular (n=2), transplant (n=1), gastrointestinal (n=1), immunology (n=1), infectious (n=1), neurology (n=1), orthopedic (n=1), and toxicology (n=1) indications.

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Pfizer buys immuno-inflammatory firm Arena Pharmaceuticals for $6.7b

Outsourcing Pharma

The pharmaceutical company currently has several promising treatments in development for gastroenterological, dermatological, and cardiological conditions.

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LIB Therapeutics’ Cholesterol Lowering Med Lerodalcibep Receives FDA BLA Acceptance

XTalks

For instance, in the LIBerate-HeFH trial in patients with HeFH, the treatment led to mean placebo-adjusted LDL-C reductions of 65% at 24 weeks, with approximately 68% of patients achieving LDL-C reductions of 50% or more, meeting European Society of Cardiology guideline-recommended targets.

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How the Ukrainian clinical trial industry is overcoming disruption

Pharmaceutical Technology

Two single-country trials and 44 multinational investigations with a site in Ukraine have started over the past six months, according to Global Data, with research covering infectious diseases, cardiology, schizophrenia, and gastrointestinal therapies. Using technology and decentralisation has also contributed.

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Canagliflozin regulates ferroptosis, potentially via activating AMPK/PGC-1?/Nrf2 signaling, in HFpEF rats

Medical Xpress

According to a new article in Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors have been found to ameliorate major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), but the exact mechanism is unknown.

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Newly discovered mechanism regulates myocardial distensibility

Scienmag

Team of researchers studies how oxidative stress influences the elasticity of the heart muscle Credit: Linke Lab A healthy heart beats 50 to 100 times a minute and pumps 8,000 litres of blood around our body every day. A precondition for this function is the elasticity of the cardiac walls, which dilate as blood flows […].

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The longevity gene mammalian Indy (mINDY) is involved in blood pressure regulation

Scienmag

Authors from the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) presented data showing that the longevity gene mammalian Indy (mINDY) is involved in blood pressure regulation in the Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI) insight.