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Vertex’s non-opioid painkiller receives approval from US drug regulator

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s non-opioid analgesic to treat moderate to severe acute pain in adults got approval from the US drug regulator.

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UK’s NHS to provide gene therapy that may cure sickle cell  disease in adults

Britain’s National Health Service will provide a gene therapy that may cure sickle cell disease for patients 12 years and older, according to.

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Merck & Co stops final-stage drug trial for treating PAH

Merck & Co. halted its final-phase study of its experimental drug for pulmonary arterial hypertension after previous studies proved its “robust efficacy,” according.

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US ‘humanitarian wavier’ will help deliver life-saving HIV medicines: UN

The UNAIDS has welcomed a move by the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to approve an “Emergency Humanitarian Waiver” to allow.

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Eli Lilly halts trials of investigational chronic kidney disease drug

Eli Lilly has stopped trials of its investigational drug to treat chronic kidney disease for a “lack of foreseeable clinical benefit,” according to.

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Novo’ Nordisk’s drug to cut kidney disease advance in diabetics gets nod

Novo Nordisk’s medicine has been approved by the US drug regulator for reducing the risk of kidney failure and death due to cardiovascular.

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Zimmer Biomet to buy Paragon 28 for $1.1b to expand musculoskeletal care

Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc., a US medical device maker, will acquire Paragon 28 Inc., for $1.1 billion to expand into musculoskeletal care, according.

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US aid pause to take ‘world back to 1980s, 1990s’ on fighting HIV: WHO 

A US government’s decision to pause funding for HIV programmes in low and middle-income countries will take the world back to the 1980s.

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AstraZeneca-Daiichi’s breast cancer drug gets broader US nod

Anglo-Swedish AstraZeneca Plc., and Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo’s therapy to treat a certain form of breast cancer has been approved by the US drug.

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Biogen-Eisai’s Alzheimer’s drug gets 4-weekly dosing nod in US

Biogen Inc. and its Japanese partner, Eisai Co. Ltd., announced that the US regulator had approved four-weekly maintenance dosing for its Alzheimer's drug.

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