Iowa City, Iowa – A new study suggests that certain drugs commonly used to treat enlarged prostate may also decrease the risk for dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). This observational finding may seem surprising, but it mirrors previous work by the University of Iowa Health Care team that links the drugs...
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Washington, DC – A protein known to play a role in growth of some types of leukemia appears to have a mixed function in breast cancer development, say researchers from the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC). The findings, presented at the annual meeting of the...
DURHAM, N.C. — Glen Jernigan will meet his bone marrow donor for the first time on June 20 at the Duke Adult Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program’s Patient Reunion. In 2005, Jernigan was diagnosed with aplastic anemia and recalls having more than a hundred blood transfusions before receiving...
DURHAM, N.C. – Though exceedingly rare, some people diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) partially or fully recover from the lethal neurodegenerative disease. A better understanding of this baffling phenomenon, reported in medical literature for at least 60 years, could point to potential new treatment approaches. To that end, researchers...
DURHAM, N.C. – Biomedical engineers at Duke University have developed a new technique to better understand and test treatments for a group of extremely rare muscle disorders called dysferlinopathy or limb girdle muscular dystrophies 2B (LGMD2B). The approach grows complex, functional 3D muscle tissue from stem cells in the laboratory,...
Durham, North Carolina – Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) have developed a new approach using the Zika virus to destroy brain cancer cells and inhibit tumor growth, while sparing healthy cells. Using Zika virus vaccine candidates developed at Duke-NUS, the team discovered how these strains target rapidly proliferating cells...
TARRYTOWN, N.Y. and PARIS, France — Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Sanofi today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Dupixent® (dupilumab) for the treatment of pediatric patients aged 1 to 11 years, weighing at least 15 kg, with eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE). Dupixent is now the first...
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: REGN) and Sanofi announced positive pivotal Phase 3 results from a trial evaluating Dupixent® (dupilumab) in adults with uncontrolled prurigo nodularis, a chronic type 2 inflammatory skin disease that causes extreme itch and skin lesions. The trial met its primary and all key secondary endpoints, showing...
STRASBOURG, France and PHILADELPHIA – Dynacure, a clinical-stage company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapies to transform the lives of patients with rare diseases who have limited or no treatment options, announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for DYN101, an...
STRASBOURG, France and PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 26, 2021 – Dynacure, a clinical-stage company focused on developing and commercializing novel therapies to transform the lives of patients with rare diseases who have limited or no treatment options, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted U.S. Patent No....