He said his lab is testing a form of the drug rapamycin in mice with progeria that could eventually be tried as part of a drug-treatment cocktail.
Now, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug for treating premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a serious form of premenstrual syndrome.
Katy Swaine, head of legal services at drug charity Release, thinks there is some ambiguity about what constitutes a medicinal form of the drug.
Shares of Isis Pharmaceuticals rose 40% in 2012 as an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted that its experimental drug for a rare, genetic form of high cholesterol should be approved.
The drug is a synthetic form of GLP-1 and was originally derived from the venomous saliva of the Gila monster.
According to the companies, the FDA sent a complete response letter regarding the trial-stage drug Horizant, which is in the form of an extended-release pill taken to lessen pain caused by the condition.
Also on tap, a new form of niacin, the only drug now available to raise HDL (the good cholesterol).
They then went through them to see how many mentioned MRSA, the drug-resistant form of the infection, as a direct or contributing cause of death.
Already approved by the Food and Drug Administration, Gilenya comes in the form of a pill, so its more convenient use is a plus, compared with Copaxone, which is injected.
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Doctors in Mumbai said 12 patients had a "totally drug resistant" form of the infection, and three have died.
In current trials the drug is going to people with a less-advanced form of the disease, too.
The drug, Zioptan, treats elevated intraocular pressure in people with a form of glaucoma or ocular hypertension.
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The world's first patient trial is using a drug combination of Thalidomide and chemotherapy to treat small cell lung cancer, the most deadly form of lung cancer.
One thing worth considering is what could happen to the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates a quarter of the U.S. economy in the form of medicines, medical devices, and food.
The case involved a former sales representative who worked for what is now Jazz Pharmaceuticals and marketed a drug for a form of narcolepsy.
He was diagnosed with a form of skin cancer in 1997 and has been part of four different drug trials at the Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Centre in Glasgow.
There's good reason to rush: The white powder is an experimental drug called Glivec, and it may be the most potent weapon ever aimed at a common form of leukemia.
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