Wikipedia -WSS

Wikipedia

author：leisure time 2025-09-06 03:28:13 - browse：82829

A drug developed by the biotech firm BridgeBio to treat an increasingly common heart condition succeeded in its main goal in a clinical trial, the company said Monday, and also pointed to potential reductions in hospitalization and death.

The results may give the medicine, acoramidis, a path to the market after a failure that led its maker’s stock to plunge in December 2021.

In the time since the initial failure, a rival Pfizer drug has become even more entrenched and another medicine, from Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, has had a successful clinical readout in the heart disease, known as ATTR-CM, in which a defective protein leads clumps to build up in the heart.

Unlock this article by subscribing to STAT+ and enjoy your first 30 days free!

GET STARTED Log In

Previous article： Cancer drug shortages should be causing more outrage
Next article： PrEP can help anyone prevent HIV. Why do so few people take it?

WSS

Kidney disease boosts cardiac arrest risk for Hispanics, Latinos

Researchers CRISPR chickens in bid to protect them from bird flu

STAT Readout: Today's biotech news includes Sana and Amylyx

FDA approves first blood sugar monitor without finger pricks

What Henrietta Lacks's story taught me about my role as a doctor

Clinic falsely told dozens they had Alzheimer's, suits say

hotspot

Wikipedia

explore

How to save PrEP access — and even expand it

Massive project maps cells in human brain in unprecedented detail

Alkermes shareholders re

How clinical AI models' predictive power can degrade over time

Moonlake's readout produced a cash windfall. Risks remain

Charges dismissed against white woman who spat on Black woman during protests in Connecticut

Food as medicine: CMS rules hamper 'prescribing' of fruits, veggies

Thousands protest mob assault of women who were paraded naked in remote Indian border state

Psychedelics group wrestles with new pharma identity

Female surgeons have lower rates of long

focus

Men with early prostate cancer can safely opt out of treatment

My chronic pain journey would have been easier knowing 5 things % STAT

Wellcome Trust names Røttingen as its new CEO

Woman found dead after suspected bear encounter near Yellowstone, wildlife officials say

FDA approves first blood sugar monitor without finger pricks

Hundreds of thousands march in Israel. Former security chiefs beg Netanyahu to halt legal overhaul

explore

Wikipedia

knowledge

focus