HOUSTON — A retrospective study presented at the Society of Hematologic Oncology (SOHO) 2025 suggested that glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1s) such as semaglutide (Ozempic/Wegovy) — ...

Rusfertide, a hepcidin-mimetic peptide, reduces excess red blood cell production in polycythemia vera, addressing complications like blood clots and fatigue. The FDA granted rusfertide breakthrough ...

A dangerous stomach condition is silently affecting millions of Americans, often developing for years without obvious symptoms until serious complications emerge. Atrophic gastritis represents one of ...

Polycythemia vera is not hereditary. While it results from a genetic mutation, or a change in the DNA in a bone marrow cell, the change usually develops during life. It isn’t something you are born ...

For patients with a rare type of blood cancer, treatment might finally be coming out of the Dark Ages. People with the chronic condition polycythemia vera make too many red blood cells, thickening ...

CHICAGO -- The use of the investigational weekly subcutaneous injection rusfertide significantly reduced the need for phlebotomy among polycythemia vera patients who had been dependent on it, the ...

Thrombosis incidence is expressed per 100,000 person-years. CI: 95% Confidence Interval; DVT: Deep Vein Thrombosis; NSTEMI: Non-ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction; PE ...

Polycythemia vera is a classic myeloproliferative neoplasm and a chronic type of leukemia, which often leads to overproduction of various blood cells. In this interview, Andrew Kuykendall, MD, ...

Findings showed 77% of PV patients treated with rusfertide achieved a clinical response compared with 33% of those who received placebo. Topline data were announced from a phase 3 trial evaluating ...

panelist discusses how polycythemia vera (PV) treatment approaches include both therapeutic phlebotomy and medications like hydroxyurea or interferon to control blood counts, with treatment selection ...

Vanda Pharmaceuticals (VNDA)’ treatment of polycythemia vera was granted FDA orphan designation, according to a post to the agency’s website. TipRanks is the most comprehensive data set of sell side ...