Skin Cancer Patients Find Hope in New Drugs
Skin Cancer Patients Find Hope In New Drugs
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Patients with an advanced form of skin cancer have found new hope after Britain's health watchdog reversed a decision to deny two drugs which could prolong life. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) confirmed the treatment will now be …
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AlphaCore Granted Orphan Drug Designation for ACP-501 (rhLCAT) by …
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AlphaCore Pharma, a biopharmaceutical company developing ACP-501 (rhLCAT) for the treatment of high risk atherosclerosis and serious lipid metabolism disorders, today announced it has received orphan drug designation from the European Medicines …
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Report: Drug treatment has vast effect on reoffending
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New figures from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation show recidivism rates are down for the second year in a row. In a constant attempt to determine what leads to reoffending, CDCR tracks the rate at which released inmates …
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Summit at UR addresses prescription drug abuse
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By the time she sought addiction treatment, she had amassed dozens of visits to multiple hospitals and underwent many costly tests. “People are willing to sit in the ER for hours and submit themselves to all of this to support their opiate dependence …
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