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Positive Data Supports Advancing Rodatristat Ethyl to Phase 2 Trials in PAH Patients, Altavant Says

Oral treatment with rodatristat ethyl is safe and well-tolerated, according to results from two completed Phase 1 clinical studies in healthy volunteers. These positive results support advancing the investigational therapy into Phase 2 studies involving people with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), the treatment’s developer says. The most recent…

NORD 2019 Rare Disease Summit Set for Oct. 21-22 in Washington, DC

Next month’s annual conference of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) in Washington, D.C., couldn’t come at a better time, says Marshall Summar, MD, chairman of NORD’s board of directors. “The pace of discovery in rare diseases has gone from brisk to hypersonic,” Summar told Bionews Services, publisher…