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In middle-age and older adults, high cardiorespiratory fitness was linked with better cognition
Phase I results show "big improvement" for what is usually progressive hypertrophy, expert says
No adverse events resulted in treatment discontinuation
Novel treatment is indicated for children and adults with the rare disorder
No adverse events resulted in treatment discontinuation
Novel treatment is indicated for children and adults with the rare disorder
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Testing could be useful for older women at higher risk
Single infusion also reduced total plasma kallikrein protein levels versus placebo
Long non-coding RNA implicated in human disease
Significant improvement beyond 100 weeks after single injection of mutation-agnostic MCO-010
Differences between delandistrogene moxeparvovec and placebo emerge in secondary outcomes
Finding on HLA-DRB1*01:03 supports need for more and earlier genetic studies
Panelists acknowledge difficulty generating stronger data in ultra-rare disease
10% of patients in trials leading to eli-cel's approval developed MDS or AML
Agency appears unswayed by mitochondria-targeting drug for rare cardioskeletal disease
Higher risk for ever use, increasing duration of use but no increase in BRCA2 carriers
