Repurposed FDA-approved drug could help treat high-grade glioma
High-grade glioma, an aggressive form of pediatric and adult brain cancer, is challenging to treat given the tumor location, ...
Moore: FDA can save lives by nixing copycat drugs
The future of American drug innovation is threatened by U.S. regulations that permit knockoff versions of new drugs to be ...
US FDA expands approval for Alnylam's drug to treat rare heart disease
U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Alnylam's drug to treat a rare and deadly heart disease on Thursday, allowing the ...
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Compound versions of some weight loss drugs to be restricted
They are made by licensed pharmacies, but not approved or inspected by the FDA. Drug compounding is allowed when drugs are on the FDA's shortage list, or in circumstances when a patient can't take ...
This cutting edge hair loss treatment is a repurposed drug from the 1990s
Rogaine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1988, the first drug to win the agency’s endorsement for male ...
Vanderbilt to search for already-approved drugs that could be repurposed to treat Alzheimer’s
Alzheimer’s disease accounts for 60%-80% of all dementia cases in the U.S. and is the country’s sixth leading cause of death.
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Repurposed Drug Shows Promise as a High-Grade Glioma Treatment
A study, published in Cancer Cell, shows that high-grade glioma tumor cells harboring DNA alterations in the gene PDGFRA responded to the drug avapritinib, which is already approved by the United ...