NEWS FROM MYOKARDIA
MyoKardia recently announced a new clinical trial of its drug, mavacamten (formerly known as MYK-461) which will compare the clinical results of mavacamten with septal reduction therapies currently used in clinical practice, i.e. the open heart surgical procedure known as septal myectomy and the catheter based procedure known as alcohol septal ablation.
The study will be run by the Cleveland Clinic with Dr. Milind Desai serving as principal investigator. MyoKardia expect to begin enrolling patients in early 2020.
Read the press release here.
NEWS FROM CYTOKINETICS:
Cytokinetics released positive data from its Phase 1 study of the drug currently known as CK-274 in a poster session at the HFSA 23rd Annual Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia. The study found that CK-274 was safe and well tolerated, while no serious adverse events or negative changes to vital signs, ECGs or laboratory tests were observed.
The company will now be moving into a Phase 2 clinical trial of CK-274 in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, expected to begin in late 2019.
Read their press release here.
HCM Beat 
As a hcm patient unobsructive ,brings rays of hope to me .As an Indian middleclass I am underserved in this treatment and lack financial ability to treat abroad .To me the novel news is like a oracle .I wish heartiest success of the drug so that people like me and below me can be cured by this drug .
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