People with pulmonary hypertension (PH) who start treatment with opioids to manage pain after undergoing surgery are at high risk of continuing to take these addictive medications for longer than required, new research suggests. Indeed, hypertension was one of eight specifically identified “top risk factors” for “new persistent post-surgical…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared Tenax Therapeutics to begin clinical testing of its new oral formulation of imatinib in people with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). The company is planning to conduct a small pharmacological study this year — and then launch a Phase 3…