Tag Archives: Treatment

FDA Approves Accrufer (ferric maltol) for the Treatment of Iron Deficiency in Adults

FDA Approves Accrufer (ferric maltol) for the Treatment of Iron Deficiency in Adults Print this page London, UK, 26 July 2019: Shield Therapeutics plc (LSE: STX), a commercial stage, pharmaceutical company with a focus on addressing iron deficiency, announces that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its lead product Accrufer® (Feraccru® in… Read More »

Headache treatment: The long journey to evidence-based guidelines – Healio

PHILADELPHIA — Headache treatment has come a long way to reach the current system of evidence-based guidelines, according to a presentation at the American Headache Society Annual Scientific Meeting. Stephen D. Silberstein, MD, FAHS, of the Jefferson Headache Center, described some of the earliest recorded treatments for headache, including an ancient Egyptian method that called… Read More »

FDA Approves Xpovio (selinexor) for the Treatment of Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma

FDA Approves Xpovio (selinexor) for the Treatment of Patients with Relapsed or Refractory Multiple Myeloma Print this page NEWTON, Mass., July 03, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:KPTI), an oncology-focused pharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved oral Xpovio (selinexor), a nuclear export inhibitor, in combination… Read More »

Dementia tied to hormone-blocking prostate cancer treatment

Alzheimer’s disease may be a risk for older prostate cancer patients given hormone-blocking treatment, a large, U.S. government-funded analysis found. Previous evidence has been mixed on whether the treatment might be linked with mental decline. But experts say the new results stand out because they’re from a respected national cancer database and the men were… Read More »

Commentary: Novartis CEO: Gene therapy offers hope of cures in a treatment, but US needs new pricing, payment model

We live in an incredible era of progress in human health. Advances in cell and gene therapies are beginning to yield powerful new treatments for some of the most devastating illnesses. With many of these new therapies we are no longer combating diseases over time, but potentially curing them in a single treatment. This is… Read More »