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FDA accepts application for Global Blood’s sickle cell disease drug
The Food and Drug Administration will review an approval application for a drug designed to target the root cause of damage from sickle cell...
Study investigates how dietary fat can affect insulin dosing in type...
In both the USA and UK, people with type 1 diabetes are recommended to adjust insulin for dietary fat. It is known...
Mallinckrodt investors stream for the exits as opioid-tied bankruptcy talk mounts
Every day seems like a new test for Mallinckrodt investors: Consider last month, when Humana took the company to court for $700 million in...
Mallinckrodt stock tanks following report that it has hired restructuring advisers
The stock of a company that is a defendant in an upcoming opioid lawsuit fell more than 40 percent following an after-hours news report...
Korean drugmaker buys large Vietnamese plant
South Korea’s JW Pharmaceutical has a plan to target emerging markets and has started by snapping up a plant in Vietnam once owned by...
Weathering the Storm Following Neuroblastoma and Bone Marrow Transplant
When Roman was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at 18 months old, we were solely focused on his...
Cancer accounts for more than one-quarter of new drug approvals, analysis...
More than one-quarter of the drugs that have received Food and Drug Administration approval have been for cancers, according to a new analysis.
The analysis,...
Purdue prepping for sudden bankruptcy, Reuters reports, one-upping states unhappy with...
After a week of leaked details about Purdue's opioid settlement negotiations, the company's reportedly threatening to file for bankruptcy before the end of September if it can’t reach...
uBiome, once a promising microbiome startup, files for bankruptcy
A microbiome-testing company once valued at more than half a billion dollars has filed for bankruptcy.
San Francisco-based uBiome said Wednesday that it had filed...
Female sexual dysfunction could be affected by type 2 diabetes, sex...
A sexual dysfunction expert is urging clinicians to be more aware that type 2 diabetes can impact a woman's libido.Dr David Edwards,...