Month: January 2021
Excerpt from the Press Release: MONTREAL — A team of researchers from the Montreal Heart Institute believe they have found an effective weapon against COVID-19: colchicine, an oral tablet already known and used for other diseases. For Dr. Jean-Claude Tardif, who led the study, this is a “major scientific discovery,” he said. Colchicine is the…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Prosetta Biosciences, a San Francisco biotechnology company, has developed novel small-molecule drugs that research indicates are effective not only against the COVID-19 virus, but against other virus families that cause respiratory disease, including influenza and the common cold – without the liability of drug resistance development. The compounds…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Paragon Genomics, Inc., a leader in amplicon-based target enrichment solutions for next-generation sequencing (NGS) and precision medicine, today announced a solution for capturing the new mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 variants that have been sweeping across the United Kingdom and South Africa, and already finding its way in various countries worldwide.…
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Summary: On Monday, February 1, 2021, the FDA will host a webinar on the Safer Technologies Program for industry and other stakeholders interested in learning more about the Program and final guidance. Background: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final guidance outlining the Safer Technologies Program for Medical Devices. This program is a…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Menon Biosensors, Inc. (“Menon” or the “Company”), a distributive technology portfolio company, announced today that trials will advance on its proprietary Molecular Mirror™ platform technology in collaboration with the University of California San Diego School of Medicine (“UC San Diego”) hoping to prove accuracy…
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Excerpt from the Article: PHILADELPHIA — A team led by physicists at the University of Pennsylvania and physicians at the University’s Perelman School of Medicine has been awarded a two-year, $2 million grant by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences for the development of a handheld device that can…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: STOCKHOLM, Jan. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Cyxone (publ.) announced today that the first patient has been screened in the Phase 2 clinical trial of Rabeximod in Covid-19. The trial will evaluate the efficacy and safety of oral treatment with Rabeximod to prevent disease progression in hospitalized Covid-19 patients and shorten…
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Excerpt from the Article: A new non-invasive magnetic resonance spectroscopy technique could help providers measure how well treatments are working for patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), new research has found. Specifically known as 31-phosphorus magnetic resonance spectroscopy can measure how well the mitochondria is working in patients who have this motor neuron disease (MND),…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: LEXINGTON, Mass., Jan. 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Kaleido Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: KLDO), today announced positive interim results from the K031 non-IND controlled clinical study evaluating outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19 disease. Patients in this non-IND clinical study were randomized within 48 hours of testing positive for COVID-19 to…
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Excerpt from the Article: From cardiology to endoscopy to blood transfusion, African Americans have played an important role as innovators in the history of medicine and medtech. To help mark African American History Month, here’s a look at some of their greatest achievements. Here are 17 African American innovators who have made discoveries and invented…
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