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FDA Drug Trials Snapshots and Diversity When Testing New Drugs

Did you know that some drugs affect men and women differently? For instance, women are often prescribed only half the dose that men take of the sleep medication, Ambien (zolpidem). Race and ethnicity ...

Exclusive: GT Biopharma begins testing of lead solid tumor drug candidate across multiple cancer types

GT Biopharma Inc. GTBP on Thursday dosed the first patient on a Phase 1 dose-escalation basket trial evaluating GTB-5550, its ...

Biogen advances Alzheimer's drug to late-stage trial despite disappointing data

Biogen said signals suggest the treatment decreases levels of tau and slows cognitive decline, particularly at the lowest ...

Clinical trials that are actually marketing ploys targeting doctors – how seeding trials put profit over patients

Some industry-funded clinical trials show signs of being designed to market drugs rather than to test them for their safety ...
Reuters

US FDA moves to curtail primate testing in drug trials

Dec 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday issued new draft guidance on reducing the use of lab monkeys in preclinical toxicity studies for certain monoclonal antibodies. The ...
Medical Xpress

Pancreatic cancer is among the deadliest cancers: New drug is giving patients and doctors hope

Irene Blair was expected to have another six to eight months to live in June, after her pancreatic cancer rapidly advanced to stage 4 less than a year after her initial diagnosis. A new drug being ...
Reuters

Sanofi's genetic disorder drug shows mixed results in late-stage trials

LONDON, Feb 2 (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi (SASY.PA), opens new tab said on Monday that its experimental genetic disorder treatment showed promise in a late-stage study of patients with a type ...