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Binghamton researchers get FDA approval for drug to treat world’s most common genetic disease

SCIENMAG: Medicine & Health

— A new drug developed by professors from the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Binghamton University has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the treatment of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a common genetic disease that mostly affects young boys.

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Mark Cuban’s Pharmacy Dreams Are Generic

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Mark Cuban’s new online pharmacy venture – the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company (“Cost Plus Drug”) – will not help overcome the biggest obstacle to drug affordability in America, which is drug company monopolies on patented brand name prescription drugs. Enter Cuban’s Cost Plus Drug.

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FDA Approves Sesquient (fosphenytoin sodium) for the Treatment of Status Epilepticus in Adult and Pediatric Patients

The Pharma Data

FDA Approves Sesquient (fosphenytoin sodium) for the Treatment of Status Epilepticus in Adult and Pediatric Patients. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Sesquient (fosphenytoin sodium for injection) for the treatment of status epilepticus in adult and pediatric patients. About Sesquient.

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FDA approves first interchangeable biosimilar insulin product for treatment of diabetes

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration approved the first interchangeable biosimilar insulin product, indicated to improve glycemic control in adults and pediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus and in adults with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. director of the Office of New Drugs in the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

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Economic Theory Explains Big Pharma Scare Tactics on Importation

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Salant’s paper supports personal drug importation and legalizing the importation of prescription drugs for commercial use so that wholesale pharmacies, including companies like Amazon and Costco, could tap into the parallel importation markets of other countries. First, drug prices in the U.S. He points to “a mere 1.5%

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2023 IS the Year for OTC Naloxone!

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

Richardson — Early on March 29, 2023, FDA announced the landmark approval of Narcan (naloxone hydrochloride) Nasal Spray for use as a nonprescription opioid overdose reversal agent. When OTC NNS will become commercially available is ultimately determined by the sponsor of the drug—Emergent BioSolutions.

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50 years after founding, NIDA urges following science to move beyond stigma

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Nora's Blog

On May 14, 1974, an act of Congress established the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and since then NIDA has led the world in funding and conducting research on drug use and addiction. We knew very little about the neurobiology of drug effects or how the brain is changed by addiction. Much has changed in 50 years.

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