Scientists develop potential strategy against leukemia drug resistance

World |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Sep, 2019

Scientists from the National Institutes of Health and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center have devised a potential treatment against a common type of leukemia that could hav...Read more

Merck Foundation launches five-year initiative to reduce disparities in HIV Care

World |  News | 0 Comment | 06 Sep, 2019

The Merck Foundation (the Foundation) has launched HIV Care Connect, a $7 million, five-year initiative to help reduce disparities in access to care and improve health outcomes for persons ...Read more

Vertex Pharma to acquire Semma for $950 million

World |  News | 0 Comment | 05 Sep, 2019

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated has entered into a definitive agreement under which Vertex will acquire Semma Therapeutics, a privately held biotechnology company pioneering the use of ...Read more

BioCity to back promising ‘Self Care’ venture, invests in Maxwellia

World |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Sep, 2019

BioCity, the pioneering life science incubator and business collective has invested in Maxwellia. The world’s first prescription (Rx) to Over the Counter (OTC) switch incubator, Maxw...Read more

Allergan gets FDA nod for Juvéderm VOLUMA XC

World |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Sep, 2019

Allergan plc has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the use of Juvéderm VOLUMA® XC, a hyaluronic acid gel dermal filler, with a TSK STERiGLIDE&tra...Read more

Sandoz announces global deal to market natalizumab

World |  News | 0 Comment | 04 Sep, 2019

Sandoz, a Novartis division and a global leader in biosimilars, has entered into a global commercialization agreement for a proposed natalizumab biosimilar. The medicine is in Phase III cli...Read more

Robocath raises €5M for cardiovascular robotic system

World |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Sep, 2019

Robocath, a company that designs, develops and commercializes cardiovascular robotic systems for the treatment of vascular diseases, announces has raised €5 million ($5.5M) to support ...Read more

WHO launches global registry on human genome editing

World |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Sep, 2019

A WHO expert advisory committee has approved the first phase of a new global registry to track research on human genome editing. The 18-member committee also announced an online consultatio...Read more

LindaCare partners with Philips

World |  News | 0 Comment | 02 Sep, 2019

LindaCare announced that it is collaborating with Philips to combine LindaCare's innovative OnePulse™ cloud-based solution for the remote monitoring of patients with cardiac...Read more

EC approves Roche’s Tecentriq in combination with Abraxane

World |  News | 0 Comment | 30 Aug, 2019

Roche has announced that the European Commission has approved Tecentriq® (atezolizumab) plus chemotherapy (Abraxane® [paclitaxel protein-bound particles for injectable sus...Read more

Ionis licenses hepatitis B program to GSK

World |  News | 1 Comment | 28 Aug, 2019

Ionis Pharmaceuticals, the leader in RNA-targeted therapeutics, announced that GSK exercised its option to license Ionis' antisense medicines for people with chronic hepatitis B virus (CHB)...Read more

Amgen to Acquire Otezla For $13.4 Billion

World |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2019

Amgen has entered into an agreement with Celgene Corporation in connection with its previously announced merger with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company to acquire worldwi...Read more

Viralgen receives cGMP certification from EMA

World |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2019

Viralgen and AskBio announced that Viralgen has received Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) compliance accreditation and Pharmaceutical Laboratory authorization by the AE...Read more

Velabs enters into a screening cooperation with Chiome Bioscience

World |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2019

Velabs Therapeutics (Velabs), specializing in the fast generation of functional therapeutic antibodies, announced that its cooperation with Chiome Bioscience, Inc., Tokyo, will be deepened,...Read more

Automatic Orbital Shakers revenue to cross US$ 435 Mn in 2019

World |  Reports/white papers | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2019

The approximately US$ 572 million orbital shakers market is likely to demonstrate just-under 7% year on year expansion in 2019. As indicated by a recent market research report, th...Read more

Lehigh Valley Health Network, IKS Health announce strategic partnership

World |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2019

Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN), has announced a new partnership with IKS Health, a premier healthcare solutions organization, to drive operational innovation and efficie...Read more

Boehringer Ingelheim rejigs board members

World |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2019

The research-driven pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim has announced changes in its Board of Managing Directors.  Allan Hillgrove, Member of the Board of Managing Directors r...Read more

EW Healthcare Partners raises Over $745 million fund 2a

World |  News | 0 Comment | 23 Aug, 2019

EW Healthcare Partners ("EW" or the "Firm"), a growth equity firm that seeks to invest in fast-growing healthcare companies, announced it raised over $745 million in EW Healthcare...Read more