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Excerpt from the article: “Lessons Learned from a Virtual Town Hall held on May 8, 2020 Much of the daily news focus is on the race to produce vaccines and therapies to combat the spread of COVID-19. While this work is undeniably important, we mustn’t lose sight of what keeps our industry running: the patients…
Read MoreExcerpt from the article: “TORONTO, Ontario and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 12, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ProMIS Neurosciences, Inc. (TSX: PMN) (OTCQB: ARFXF), a company with unique, core technology to predict novel targets on the molecular surface of complex proteins, has advanced its program to develop a high-throughput, highly accurate test for detection of antibodies to…
Read MoreExcerpt from the article: “Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a remote monitoring platform for patients who have tested positive for COVID-19 but aren’t in need of hospitalization. The system is being tested by patients in a clinical trial at UC San Diego Health. It is intended to help health care…
Read MoreExcerpt from the article: “For some COVID-19 patients, the body’s immune response may be as destructive as the virus that causes the disease. The persistent high fevers, severe respiratory distress, and lung damage seen in some critically ill patients are all signs of an immune system in overdrive. Now, a new clinical trial will test…
Read MoreExcerpt from the article: “A study published late last week in the New England Journal of Medicine found that hospitalized COVID-19 patients who received Gilead Sciences’ antiviral drug remdesivir recovered a median of 4 days earlier than those who received a placebo. Preliminary findings from the double-blind Adaptive COVID-19 Treatment Trial (ACTT-1), sponsored by the…
Read MoreExcerpt from the Article: “The study findings demonstrate x-ray’s value in helping physicians identify, triage, and treat high-risk patients, wrote a team led by Dr. Danielle Toussie of Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. “We demonstrate how valuable x-rays can be during this pandemic because, by evaluating disease in different portions of the lungs, we…
Read MoreThese findings may well change how future screening for COVID-19 infections is conducted. Excerpt from the article: “The study results suggest that radiologists must keep in mind that patients with COVID-19 can initially present with symptoms other than respiratory ones but still have the disease, wrote a team led by Dr. Rydhwana Hossain of the University…
Read MoreGladstone President Emeritus Sandy Williams explains how Gladstone scientists are leveraging their existing research to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Continue Reading The Article
Read MoreExcerpt from the press release: Osaka, JAPAN, and King of Prussia, PA, USA – 7 May 2020 – The CoVIg-19 Plasma Alliance, an unprecedented plasma industry collaboration recently established to accelerate the development of a plasma-derived hyperimmune globulin therapy for COVID-19, is rapidly building momentum. Its membership has expanded globally to include 10 plasma companies, and…
Read MoreVeristat has published an interesting overview of the EMA guidance: Summary of Key Considerations Outlined in the Third Edition of the EMA Guidance “The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has now published its third version of the Guidance on the Management of Clinical Trials during the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Pandemic. This guidance addresses the need for sponsors…
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