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FDA Suspends Muscular Dystrophy Drug After 3 Patient Deaths
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) has placed an immediate clinical hold on Sarepta Therapeutics' investigational ...
Sarepta Therapeutics crisis is huge blow to Duchenne families, company
Sarepta rebuffed a call from the Food and Drug Administration to halt all shipments of its gene therapy for Duchenne muscular ...
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We are mothers of Duchenne patients. Recent setbacks with Sarepta must not stop progress
As mothers of children with this disease, we have wept helplessly in recent months as friends — fellow members of a club we ...
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Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatments, gene therapy spark hope - USA TODAY
Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy affects 12,000 to 15,000 children and young adults in the United States and about 300,000 worldwide. It's caused by a mutation in the dystrophin gene, which makes a ...
Sarepta shares plunge 40% as future of its gene therapy appears at risk
Shares of Sarepta Therapeutics plunged more than 30% on Friday as the future of its approved gene therapy appeared at risk.
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Dosing begins in gene therapy trial for DMD-linked heart disease
The first patient has been dosed in a clinical trial testing Sardocor's one-time gene therapy for cardiomyopathy associated ...
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Sarepta Tags DMD Gene Therapy Elevidys With Black Box Warning, Axes 500 Staff
Following the death of two teenage patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy following Elevidys treatment, Sarepta ...
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Sarepta Therapeutics lays off one-third of workforce in drastic cost-cutting move
Sarepta Therapeutics announced it has laid off more than one-third of its workforce, a drastic cost-cutting move following ...