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When Sammy Basso was diagnosed with progeria at 2, it seemed likely that the disease’s hyper-accelerated aging would kill him before he graduated high school. “There was nothing. Nothing. No …
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The suspicion that something was wrong started when the 1-year-old girl’s parents noticed she had trouble holding up her head. It was just the first of what would be many …
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The FDA’s decision to grant accelerated approval to Biogen’s aducanumab (Aduhelm) for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease was a difficult and bold one that people with the disease, their families, …
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Following the Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to give the green light to aducanumab, the first treatment approved for Alzheimer’s disease in nearly two decades, the agency has been …
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As a medical school student, oncologist Vinod Ravi felt like he understood what it took to treat disease. Then his brother was diagnosed with a very rare form of bone …
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When Eli Lilly announced in 2017 that it would stop producing quinidine, it was the only medication approved for severe malaria treatment in the U.S. As quinidine supplies dwindled, the …
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When Amber Freed heard in 2020 that a drug might help save her young child from a rare, progressive form of epilepsy, she was ecstatic. The news came just in …
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What does “one-and-done” treatment actually mean? Do we really need a permanent FDA commissioner? And what’s Scott Gottlieb’s grilling technique? We cover all that and more this week on “The …
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As it looks to emerge from bankruptcy, Mallinckrodt (MNK) has sold an experimental medicine that until recently was being tested to treat a fatal genetic disorder. But the company has …
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