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FDA Suspends Muscular Dystrophy Drug After 3 Patient Deaths
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has placed an immediate clinical hold on Sarepta Therapeutics' investigational ...
Sarepta’s Risky Gamble: Gene Therapy Stays on Market Despite FDA Request
When three patients die after taking a cutting-edge drug, most companies hit the brakes. Not Sarepta Therapeutics. The ...
Sarepta Therapeutics laying off dozens in Ohio, won't comply with FDA request to halt therapy
After the FDA request, Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Sarepta said in a statement that it will continue to ship the therapy ...
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatments, gene therapy spark hope - USA TODAY
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy affects 12,000 to 15,000 children and young adults in the United States and about 300,000 worldwide. It's caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene, which makes a ...
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Gene Therapy for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Gets Expanded Approval
The FDA expanded the approval of delandistrogene moxeparvovec-rokl (Elevidys) gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy on Thursday to include ambulatory or non-ambulatory patients ages 4 ...
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First Gene Therapy to Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy is Approved
The first gene therapy that can treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration; it will be marketed as Elevidys (delandistrogene ...