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Almost all cases of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and half of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) cases are linked to dysfunction in the protein TDP-43.

Eli Lilly has invested $700 million to launch a Boston, Mass., facility focusing on RNA-based therapeutics and genetic medicines.

The Clinical Research Forum, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., has unveiled its picks to receive its annual Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Award, a recognition it gives to r...

Bayer’s Kerendia (finerenone) has secured FDA approval for treatment of patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) associated with type 2 diabetes.

Heidelberg-based Precisis GmbH has received Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its EASEE brain stimulator.

GlaxoSmithKline has slammed the brakes on its pivotal maternal respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine program after a safety assessment, potentially handing an advantage to Pfizer in a close rac...

The FDA has granted Fast-Track designation to Immune-Onc Therapeutics’ IO-202, an experimental myeloid checkpoint inhibitor developed for treating patients with relapsed or refractory acute myelo...

The Sackler family owners of Purdue Pharma have proposed a new and larger settlement worth up to $6 billion to resolve allegations that the OxyContin maker and its owners contributed to the deadly ...

BioMarin Pharmaceutical will need to run additional preclinical studies to assess the "theoretical" cancer risk of a rare disease gene therapy it's developing, information the Food and Drug Adminis...

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics today issued the following statement regarding the clinical trial of Hetero’s generic molnupiravir.  ...

The cough medicine dextromethorphan has been shown to treat inherited heart arrhythmia disorders in mouse models and human cells. 

FDA has approved Pyrukynd (mitapivat) tablets  to treat hemolytic anemia (a disorder in which red blood cells are destroyed faster than they can be made) in adults with pyruvate kinase (PK) d...