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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Nov. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Persephone Biosciences Inc., a biotechnology company that leverages real world data and artificial intelligence to design microbiome therapeutics and diagnostics to promote normal immune function and fight disease, today announced the initiation of the ARGONAUT clinical study to determine the impact of gut microbiome…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BigBio Communications, developer of the life science industry news aggregator Big4Bio, proudly announces the launch of The BioCalendar (TheBioCalendar.com), an exclusive event listing platform for the global healthcare and biopharmaceutical industry. The BioCalendar was created to be the comprehensive calendar and guide for healthcare and life science industry…
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Excerpt from the Article: Charlottetown, PE – The Canadian Alliance for Skills and Training in Life Sciences (CASTL) announced today Financial Awards of $5,000 for 32 post-secondary students across Atlantic Canada to support their academic studies in life sciences. This Financial Award program will support life sciences students enrolled in co-operative education from Acadia University, Université…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: United Kingdom (Precision Vaccinations) A commonly used anti-inflammatory treatment has been added to the Randomised Evaluation of COVid-19 thERapY (RECOVERY) study, the world’s largest clinical trial of treatments for patients hospitalized with COVID-19. Professor Peter Horby at the University of Oxford and co-Chief Investigator of the RECOVERY trial, said in…
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Excerpt from the Article: Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE requested emergency authorization of their Covid vaccine on Friday, and it could take at least three weeks for a U.S. Food and Drug Administration decision as trial data is probed by agency staff and outside advisers. Shown to be 95 percent effective and without any major…
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Excerpt from the Article: It goes without saying that COVID-19 has had a tremendous impact on our global society and economy. In fact, as lockdown was initiated across Europe at the start of March, we quickly saw the impact of this pandemic on clinical research activities across the various regions. Within the life sciences industry,…
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Excerpt from the article: Fluvoxamine, an antidepressant used to treat obsessive-compulsive disorder, may help prevent clinical deterioration of patients with mild coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), results of an early clinical trial suggest. The double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized study, published in JAMA, included 152 outpatients with COVID-19 in the St. Louis area between April 10 and August…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: TORONTO, Nov. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Profound Medical Corp. (NASDAQ:PROF; TSX: PRN) (“Profound” or the “Company”) announced today that Sonalleve® has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) approval under a Humanitarian Device Exemption (“HDE”) for the treatment of osteoid osteoma. Osteoid osteoma is a non-cancerous bone tumor that…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: Celltrion Group has completed enrolment of 327 patients with mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection symptoms to evaluate anti-Covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatment candidate CT-P59 in the global Phase II clinical trial. Celltrion Group has completed enrolment of 327 patients with mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection symptoms to evaluate anti-Covid-19 monoclonal antibody treatment candidate CT-P59 in…
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Excerpt from the Press Release: BOSTON, Nov. 19, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ziopharm Oncology, Inc. (“Ziopharm” or “the Company”) (Nasdaq:ZIOP) today announced the presentation of new clinical data from three ongoing trials of Ad-RTS-hIL-12 plus veledimex (Controlled IL-12) for the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma (rGBM) and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG) at the 2020 Society…
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