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Horizon Pharma buying Hyperion for about $1.1 billion
Horizon Pharma is buying Hyperion Therapeutics for about $1.1 billion, gaining two treatments for genetic disorders.
Mar 30, 2015
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Medications
Specialty drugs save lives, come with daunting price tags
Mati Munoz lost her liver to hepatitis C, and the virus was attacking its transplanted replacement last year when her doctor prescribed a drug combination that could save the organ.
Mar 11, 2015
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Smoking impairs treatment response in inflammatory back arthritis
Smoking impairs the response to biological drugs used to treat inflammatory arthritis affecting the lower back, known as axial spondyloarthritis, or AxSpA, for short, reveals research published online in the Annals of the ...
Feb 9, 2015
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Knee arthritis drugs beat placebos, but study finds no clear winner
(HealthDay)—Pain-relieving treatments for knee arthritis all work better than doing nothing—but it's hard to point to a clear winner, a new research review concluded.
Jan 6, 2015
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Medications
Japan first nation to approve Novartis psoriasis drug
Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis said Friday it has won approval to market its Cosentyx psoriasis treatment in Japan, making it the first country to authorise commercialisation of the drug.
Dec 26, 2014
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
CKD, glomerulonephritis risk higher for those with psoriasis
(HealthDay)—Psoriasis is associated with a higher risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD) and glomerulonephritis (GN), according to a study published online Dec. 15 in the British Journal of Dermatology.
Dec 22, 2014
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Lower doses of rheumatoid arthritis drugs may work for some
(HealthDay)—Some people in the early stages of rheumatoid arthritis may be able to safely lower their medication doses once their symptoms are well under control, a new study suggests.
Nov 6, 2014
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
New approach to arthritis treatment could avoid serious side-effects
(Medical Xpress)—A new approach to arthritis treatment, which avoids unforeseen side-effects by delivering drugs exclusively to affected inflamed joints, has been developed by researchers at Queen Mary University of London.
Sep 19, 2014
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Genetics
Genetics reveals patients susceptible to drug-induced pancreatitis
Doctors have discovered that patients with a particular genetic variation are four times more likely to develop pancreatitis if they are prescribed a widely used group of drugs.
Sep 15, 2014
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Curing arthritis in mice
With a new therapeutic product, researchers have managed to cure arthritis in mice for the first time. The scientists are now planning to test the efficacy of the drug in humans.
Aug 6, 2014
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