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SteadyMed Hires Pulmonary Hypertension Advocacy Veteran

SteadyMed Therapeutics, a California-based specialty pharmaceutical company that develops drug products for treating orphan and high-value diseases with unmet non-oral delivery needs, has hired Carl Hicks, Jr. to take on the newly created role of Vice President of PH Patient Advocacy and Community Relations. Hicks is a 20-year…

3-D Heart Measures May Offer Noninvasive Way of Predicting PAH Progression

Researchers have identified a noninvasive way to predict disease outcomes in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) that uses three-dimensional measures of the right heart ventricle. The method allows physicians to assess the risk of deterioration without exposing patients to repetitive heart catheterization — and may offer a way to…