August 14, 2018 – The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just approved Patisiran (Onpattro) infusion for the treatment of peripheral nerve disease (polyneuropathy) caused by hereditary transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis (hATTR) in adult patients.
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July 22, 2018 – The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just approved Ivosidenib (Tibsovo) for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who have a specific genetic mutation in the IDH1 gene.
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June 28, 2018 – The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA), a couple of week ago, approved Erenumab-Aooe (Aimovig) for the preventive treatment of migraine in adults. The treatment is given by once-monthly self-injections. Erenumab-Aooe 
(Aimovig) is the first FDA-approved preventive migraine treatment in a new class of drugs that work by blocking the activity of the calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor (CGRPR) for the prevention of migraine.
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June 26, 2018 – The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just approved Cannabidiol (Epidiolex), for the treatment of seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome and Dravet syndrome, two rare and severe forms of epilepsy, in patients two years of age and older.
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Midway through the Soccer World Cup 2018 – Granted, the author of this article (that’s me) is addicted to soccer on several levels. For one, I have played football (same as soccer for the world outside the US) as a goal keeper myself; not at the highest performance levels,
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May 22, 2018 –The American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) just released a Safety Alert concerning serious neural tube defects that might arise in babies born to women who took HIV medications that contained the active ingredient Dolutegravir. Neural tube defects are birth defects that can occur early in pregnancy when the spinal cord,
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May 15, 2018 –An increasing number of women who are diagnosed with breast cancer are opting for multigene sequencing instead of the more limited testing for only BRCA1/ BRCA2 mutations, according to a new report.
The findings come from the ICanCAre study,
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May 13, 2018 – Researchers have uncovered 17 genetic variants linked to different depression-related phenotypes in a large genome-wide association study, including variants near genes involved in neurotransmission and synapse function.
The first author of the study, David Howard, Center for Clinical Brain Sciences, University of Edinburgh,
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