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Get the info you need on this on new indications for seven existing drugs, part of our drug news roundup for September.

A review of new launches, new indications, new dosage forms and Health Canada advisories.

Both sickle cell disease and thalassemia are caused by mistakes in the genes that carry hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carry oxygen.

The only cure for painful sickle cell disease today is a bone marrow transplant. But soon there may be a new cure that attacks the disorder at its genetic source.

Highlights from the European Association for the Study of Diabetes congress in Stockholm.

Our clinical writer Lu-Ann Murdoch keeps up to date on all the latest drug news in Canada. This summer she's highlighted many new indications for existing drugs including Zeposia, Jardiance and Gardasil 9.

The approval came after a phase 3 study found the drug resulted in a mean relative improvement in lung function of 17%.