Scleroderma patients should be screened every year for pulmonary hypertension, even if they are recently diagnosed and have no respiratory symptoms, according to one of the foremost research authorities on the disease. Scleroderma, or systemic sclerosis, is a chronic connective tissue disease generally classified as one of the autoimmune rheumatic…
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Protagen AG, which specializes in diagnostic medical devices for autoimmune diseases, has launched its first ELISA research use test kit, developed for Systemic Sclerosis (SSc), the ADx®SSc Multilisa®. The diagnostic test was developed by Protagen with the purpose of combining both the identification of novel disease markers and two standard…
Active Biotech, a Sweden-based biopharmaceutical company that is developing therapies for autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, and cancers, recently announced that it is partnering with Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. to develop a new, experimental drug for treating Huntington’s disease. The two companies will work together to launch a new phase 2 clinical trial in…
Nonsense mutation Duchenne muscular dystrophy (nmDMD) patients living in the European Union may soon experience relief from their condition due to the European Commission granting PTC Therapeutics, Inc. conditional marketing for Translarna™ (ataluren). PTC Therapeutics may now market Translarna in the 28 Member States of the…
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