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Cara Ready To Move Into Pivotal Studies In ESRD Pruritus

 
• By Joseph Haas

With a successful end-of-Phase II meeting with FDA concluded, Cara moves closer to bringing the first drug to market for pruritus in ESRD patients on dialysis.

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With an all-clear from US FDA to advance into pivotal Phase III studies, Cara Therapeutics Inc. is optimistic about bringing the first drug to treat the itchy skin condition pruritis in end-stage renal disease patients on dialysis to market, an indication CEO Derek Chalmers describes as a “very highly severe unmet medical need.”

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