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Tafamidis, sold under the brand names Vyndaqel and Vyndamax, [5] is a medication used to delay disease progression in adults with certain forms of transthyretin amyloidosis. It can be used to treat both hereditary forms, familial amyloid cardiomyopathy and familial amyloid polyneuropathy , as well as wild-type transthyretin amyloidosis , which ...
A first-in-class medication is a prototype drug that uses a "new and unique mechanism of action" to treat a particular medical condition. [1] While the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research tracks first-in-class medications and reports on them annually, first-in-class is not considered a regulatory category.
A judge dismissed Pfizer Inc's challenge to a U.S. anti-kickback law that the drugmaker said prevents it from helping Medicare patients afford two drugs that treat a sometimes fatal heart ...
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1960. Overall life expectancy: 69.7 Women: 73.1 Men: 66.6 By 1960, life expectancy numbers settled into a long-term pattern of slow but steady growth compared with more dramatic jumps at the ...
On average, domestic rabbits can live to be between 8 and 12 years old, says Blue Cross, a British animal welfare nonprofit. The oldest recorded domestic rabbit lived to be 18 years and 10 months ...
The live virus cannot survive on surfaces for long, because “the virus needs a host to actually be effective,” Dahdal explains. “It needs to be in the human body to multiply and spread.”
The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...