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Pharmadrug Inc.: PharmaDrug Files For FDA Orphan Drug Designation For DMT In Kidney Transplantation and Expands on Its Psychedelics Strategy
PharmaDrug or the
Company ), a specialty pharmaceutical company focused on the research, development and commercialization of controlled-substances and natural medicines such as psychedelics, cannabis and naturally-derived approved drugs, is pleased to announce it has expanded its psychedelic pharmaceutical program with the filing of an application with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) to receive Orphan Drug Designation ( ODD ) for N,N-Dimethyltryptamine ( DMT ) in the prevention of ischemia reperfusion injury in patients undergoing kidney transplantation.
Pharmaceutical Psychedelics Strategy
Following the acquisition of Sairiyo Therapeutics and its biotech R&D core competencies, PharmaDrug has undertaken efforts to expand its research activities in the pharmaceutical psychedelics space. The Company s psychedelic pharmaceutic
Norwalk family seeks liver donor for nephew
Hour (Norwalk, CT)
James Carlson was working hard as a welder in
Stratford, trying to earn money to put his 21-year-old daughter through college, when his skin begin to take on a yellow tint last February.
His aunt and uncle prompted the 55-year-old to go to the doctor, where he found out his yellow skin was jaundice, a telltale sign of liver failure. Doctors told last Carlson in March he had three to six months to live. He has beaten the odds, surviving almost a year past his his diagnosis, but his condition is dire, said his aunt,
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David White was first evaluated for a kidney transplant in 2011, but it would be four years before he got the call that his turn had come. In between undergoing various forms of dialysis to do the job his kidneys couldn t and attending medical appointments to ensure he was healthy enough to survive the four-to-six-hour surgery, White busied himself with reading, exercise, and even trying to learn a new language to keep his mind off the fact that his kidneys were failing.
During his initial evaluations, the then 49-year-old consulted with social workers and completed a test to measure his heart function. Although White s high blood pressure and kidney failure had taken a toll on his health, he says he sailed through the physical health checks with ease.
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