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Pericardial injection effective, less invasive way to get regenerative therapies to heart

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Injecting hydrogels containing stem cell or exosome therapeutics directly into the pericardial cavity could be a less invasive, less costly, and more effective means of treating cardiac injury, according to new research from North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Novartis Entresto receives positive CHMP opinion for pediatric heart failure

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About our longstanding commitment to heart failure Our goal is to reimagine medicine for HF patients. Entresto is a twice-a-day medicine that reduces the strain on the failing heart 4,5. Entresto contains the neprilysin inhibitor sacubitril and the angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) valsartan 4,5.

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Cardiol Therapeutics Announces Formation of Data Safety Monitoring and Clinical Endpoint Committees for Phase II/III Outcomes Trial in High-Risk Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19

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Statistician: Dr. George Wells – Professor, School of Epidemiology, Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Ottawa and Director, Cardiovascular Research Methods Centre, University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Dr. Bennett is a board-certified cardiologist and board-eligible in critical care medicine.

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AstraZeneca to Acquire Alexion, Accelerating the Company’s Strategic and Financial Development

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We look forward to welcoming our new colleagues at Alexion so that we can together build on our combined expertise in immunology and precision medicines to drive innovation that delivers life-changing medicines for more patients.” ” Ludwig Hantson , Ph.D., Strategic rationale.

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Caelum and Alexion Announce Upcoming Data Presentations at the 62nd American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Food and Drug Administration and European Medicine Agency as a potential therapy for patients with AL amyloidosis. Alexion is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on serving patients and families affected by rare diseases and devastating conditions through the discovery, development and commercialization of life-changing medicines.

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Are Statin Side Effects ‘All in Your Head’?

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15 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Each patient was given four bottles of statins and four bottles of placebos, each containing identical-looking tablets to be consumed in random order over eight months. He and his colleagues published their findings Nov. The study received no drug industry funding.

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Novartis new analysis shows high consistency in lowering LDL-C in individual response with investigational inclisiran

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Presented at the ESC Congress 2020, the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology, the analysis evaluated the efficacy and tolerability of inclisiran on top of a maximally tolerated dose of statins, in two studies of more than 2,300 patients (of which 1,164 were on inclisiran) from the Phase III trials.