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Forging a Path Forward for Substance Abuse Potential Studies With the Cross-Company Abuse Liability Council By Beatrice Setnik, PhD

Alta Sciences

Despite having a final FDA guidance issued in 2017 , evolving drug development and treatment modalities continue to prompt important dialogue to adapt existing methods. One example is the recent interest in psychedelics for the treatment of psychiatric disorders, including major depressive disorder.

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AHA News: Hospice Candidate at 2, She’s Now 13 and Thriving

The Pharma Data

” That was the term the doctors used six months after a third surgery to correct a heart defect that left her struggling to breathe while her lungs continued to fill with fluid. A doctor suggested hospice. Several doctors came in to evaluate what they were seeing. She had her second open-heart surgery in February 2008.

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Defense-Forward Biosecurity

Codon

Doctors in training are told that when they hear hoofbeats, they should think horses, not zebras; rare diseases are the exception, not the rule. Putting a sequencer in every port, hospital, water treatment plant, or subway station isn’t feasible just yet due to the expense.

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MS Has Mixed Impact on Patients’ Cancer Risk: Study

The Pharma Data

. “People with MS tend to have urinary symptoms and treatments that themselves can be risk factors for bladder cancer,” he said. They found that between 2008 and 2017, the chance of developing bladder cancer was 72% higher among MS patients. Nor did the study account for MS treatments, which might affect cancer risk.

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Rap Music Is Putting Mental Health in the Spotlight

The Pharma Data

. “I think anyone who’s been a fan of rap music across the last two decades — myself included — had a feeling this was happening,” said study author Alex Kresovich, a doctoral fellow in the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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How Breast Cancer Reunited Six High School Friends

PLOS: DNA Science

When a suspicious, routine mammogram catapults you through the maze of more scans, biopsies, and then a zillion treatment choices, you have to become expert in interpreting the nuances of a pathology report – or find someone who is. Listen to doctors, do research, then finally decide.

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FDA for approval to treat VTE and to prevent VTE in children

The Pharma Data

Earlier this year, Xarelto was approved in Canada, the EU including UK, Japan and Switzerland for the treatment of VTE and prevention of VTE recurrence in children and adolescents aged less than 18 years after at least 5 days of initial parenteral anticoagulation treatment. EINSTEIN-Jr.

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