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Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP)

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pulmonary venous hypertension :: Article Creator Insmed Stock Soars On Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Drug Trial Results Shares of Insmed (INSM) jumped nearly 30% Tuesday after the biopharmaceutical company reported positive results from a Phase 2 trial for its treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The Bridgewater, N.J.-based company said the study was "evaluating the efficacy and safety of treprostinil palmitil inhalation powder" in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension, or PAH, and that the trial "met its primary endpoint and all secondary efficacy endpoints." Pulmonary hypertension, which develops when the blood pressure in your lungs is higher than normal, affects about 1% of people globally, per the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Insmed said it would "immediately engage with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding the Phase 3 trial design for PAH. Insmed plans to in...

“Superbugs in the Anthropocene: A Profit-Driven Plague - Monthly Review” plus 2 more

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“Superbugs in the Anthropocene: A Profit-Driven Plague - Monthly Review” plus 2 more Superbugs in the Anthropocene: A Profit-Driven Plague - Monthly Review Pregnant women with substance use disorders need treatment, not prison - STAT A Plague Tale: Innocence versus the Black Death - Eurogamer.net Superbugs in the Anthropocene: A Profit-Driven Plague - Monthly Review Posted: 01 Jun 2019 12:00 AM PDT Ian Angus edits the website Climate and Capitalism and is the author, most recently, of A Redder Shade of Green: Intersections of Science and Socialism (Monthly Review Press, 2017). He would like to thank John Bellamy Foster, Fred Magdoff, Michael Friedman, Lis Angus, and two anonymous scientific reviewers for their assistance with this article. While I was writing this article, the press reported: A maternity hospital in Romania shut down because thirty-nine newborns were infected by a drug-resistant super...