Month: December 2022
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New Alport drug trial 2023
Eloxx, a pharmaceutical company, is testing a new treatment that they think might help certain people with Alport Syndrome. Alport syndrome is caused by changes (called mutations) in certain genes. Only a very small proportion of gene changes (called ‘nonsense mutations’ which account for approximately 3-5% that cause Alport syndrome) are potentially treatable by this new…