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On January 21st, we held our first Ask Us Anything in Clinical Research Virtual networking meeting for the new year! Heather and I were joined by our guest speaker, Pearl Mensah of Pilatus Comparator Solutions for this exciting meeting. We’ve had 10 months of experience marketing and selling remotely. We’ve seen what worked, and what’s…
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Excerpt from the Article: It is possible to increase the specificity of low-dose CT (LDCT) lung cancer screening programs without chipping away at sensitivity – all it takes is folding artificial intelligence (AI) in with Lung-RADS. That capability is based on the development of a lung nodule management system, created by investigators from the University…
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Excerpt from the article: Researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have formed a new consortium that will study the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on preterm birth and prenatal care, funded by $300,000 in grants from the Independence Blue Cross Foundation, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Delaware’s donor-advised fund, and BluePrints for the Community.…
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The FDA has released a new Action Plan on Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML)- Software as a Medical Device (SaMD). You can download it below by clicking the button! Download The Action Plan
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Excerpt from the Press Release: SAN DIEGO, Jan. 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Adamis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NASDAQ: ADMP) (“Adamis”) announced today the submission of an Investigational New Drug (IND) to FDA for the investigational use of Tempol for the treatment of Coronavirus (COVID-19). The submission of the IND to FDA followed a Pre-IND meeting with…
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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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