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• FDAs Orphan Drug Workshop Featured in Wall Street Journal – Push To Cure Rare Diseases
  Below is a story that ran in today’s Wall Street Journal (Page A 3) on the FDA workshop I attended a few week ago at the Keck Graduate Institute in Claremont, CA.  We filed an orphan drug application for Cyclodextrin for the treatment of Niemann Pick Type C disease, an ultra rare cholesterol disease that [...] […]
• FDA Does Not Approve Actelion’s Zavesca in US – Distressing News For Niemann Pick Type C Community
  Actelion, the makers of Zavesca, today put out a brief statement saying that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not approve Zavesca and wants more information from the company on treating Niemann Pick Type C, a rare and dementing neurological disease that afflicts our six year old identical twins, Addi and Cassi. Niemann Pick Type C disease is caused […]

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• New non-drug fix for HIV?
  The Scientist Magazine By Alison McCook 30th June 2009 Researchers are slowly establishing a connection between an extremely rare genetic disease and HIV — and homing in on a safe, non-prescription compound that could treat both. Recently, James Hildreth at the Meharry Medical College School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn., and his colleagues found tha […]
• Wacker Chemie Expands US Based Cyclodextrin Facility To Meet Increase In Worldwide Demand For Sugar Molecule
  Wacker Chemie, the Munich-based chemical company, announced that is has expanded its US based cyclodextrin facility in Eddyville, Iowa.  According the the press release issued by Wacker, the new cyclodextrin facility increases the company’s capacity for alpha (α) and beta (β) cyclodextrins by 50 percent and doubles its capacity for gamma (γ) cyclodextr […]

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