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AHA News: Few Clinical Studies Examine High Blood Pressure Treatments for Black Americans

The Pharma Data

But studies exploring its impact on them remain scant, an analysis of clinical trials over the past decade shows. based clinical trials investigating interventions for high blood pressure between 2009-2018, just 52 were exclusively in Black people. This impedes our ability to develop new and novel interventions and treatments.”

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Meet the Patient Advocate Panelists in Our Upcoming Webinar: Rare Disease Day 2023 Wrapped, What You Need to Take Away

Conversations in Drug Development Trends

Rare Disease Day on February 28th is a chance for rare disease communities to come together as one and join in conversation with stakeholders searching for treatments, raising money to support research, and changing the way healthcare and governments interact with patients. What will have the greatest impact on rare disease patients in 2023?

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Women in STEM: An Inspiring Journey with Dr Jo Brewer

Drug Target Review

Success in the haematology space has really been driving this from the beginning, which is not surprising as haem doctors understand stem cell transplants; they’re used to working with a lot of the sort of toxicities that can come with cell therapies. When it comes down to cell biology itself, cells can do so many different things.

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Raising Welfare for Lab Rodents

Codon

As the biotechnologist Alex Telford writes , “Without mouse models, we may never have developed polio and meningitis vaccines, organ transplants, GLP-1 drugs, gene therapies , or any other number of transformative treatments.” Another part of providing research animals with a good life is granting them a good death.

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CPAP MDL Overinflates Plaintiffs’ Claims

Drug & Device Law

Abuse of substantive law as a weapon to force settlement occurs so frequently in multidistrict litigation (“MDL”), that we’ve given it a name – “the MDL treatment.” The linchpin of the MDL treatment is that plaintiffs are allowed to take way more liberties with state law than the Erie doctrine allows. 662, 679 (2009).

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Another RICOdiculous Decision

Drug & Device Law

Yet what the plaintiffs were claiming is that, despite Actos’ undisputed effectiveness as a diabetes treatment, no TPP in the country would have purchased it for that purpose because of the 3/10,000 bladder cancer increased risk. at *6 (plaintiff “has documents and formularies reaching back to only 2009”). PATDC82 I , 943 F.3d

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Confident Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

Thus a confident learned intermediary’s testimony will defeat causation as a matter of law by stating that, notwithstanding a poor result, the treatment provided was standard of care, and even in hindsight they would not do anything different. 2009), reversed a plaintiff’s verdict for entry of judgment n.o.v. caused anything.