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After surprise trial failure, ALS doctors brace for one less treatment option

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Physicians are preparing for tough conversations with patients on Amylyx Pharmaceuticals’ drug, Relyvrio, while holding out hope it still may help some with the disease.

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Eating more fruits and vegetables to reduce dietary acid lowers blood pressure and improves kidney and heart health in patients with hypertension

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Doctors recommend making fruits and vegetables a foundational part of the treatment of patients with hypertension. A new study details the findings from a five-year interventional randomized control trial. A new study details the findings from a five-year interventional randomized control trial.

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Patient Perspective: Jamie Troil Goldfarb shares her clinical trial experience [video]

Antidote

For individuals living with a condition like melanoma, volunteering to participate in a clinical trial can be a rewarding experience. Individuals with Jamie’s specific diagnosis are given a 14% 5-year survival rate — but through participating in an immunotherapy clinical trial, Jamie is living without evidence of the disease.

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David Liu receives Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

Broad Institute

The organization has honored Liu for the development of the gene editing platforms base editing and prime editing, which can correct the vast majority of known disease-causing genetic variations and have already been used in at least 15 clinical trials, with life-saving results.

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AC102 Eliminates Tinnitus in Preclinical Study

The Pharma Data

Despite its prevalence and the profound impact it can have on quality of life, there are currently no causal treatments approved to directly address the condition. Importantly, the treatment also appeared to reverse the underlying physiological damage believed to contribute to tinnitus.

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Long-standing hormone treatment for donated hearts found to be ineffective

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Doctors managing deceased organ donors routinely treat the donors’ bodies with thyroid hormones in a bid to preserve heart function and increase the quantity and quality of hearts and other organs available for transplantation. However, according to a recent clinical trial led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

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A combined PET-MRI scan could improve treatment for patients with early breast cancer

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

Milan, Italy: Using a combined scanning technique on patients with early-stage breast cancer improved treatment in almost three out of ten cases in a trial presented at the 14th European Breast Cancer Conference today (Thursday). [1]