Shares of Laval, Quebec-based ProMetic Life Sciences Inc. jumped more than 8.7 percent this morning after securing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Rare Pediatric Disease Designation for its Inter-Alpha-Inhibitor-Proteins (IAIP) treatment for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
Stuart McGuigan took on his role as CIO of industry behemoth Johnson & Johnson in 2012. That was around the same time that Alex Gorsky joined the company as CEO. Since then, part of Gorsky’s mission has been to help J&J focus on technology, McGuigan said in an interview at HIMSS this week.
Panther Orthopedics has won FDA approval for its implantable orthopedic fixation device. The 510(k) nod clears Panther to sell a device designed to deliver continuous compression during bone healing while allowing joint motion.
Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Juno Therapeutics, Inc. As a result, the common stock of Juno will no longer be listed for trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market.
Measures aimed at addressing rising healthcare and health insurance costs in Singapore have been announced.
The use of Internet of Things in Healthcare is going to be revolutionary in the next years. IoT is now pretty much in everything we touch in our modern lives, technology is now a common denominator in most of everybody’s life.
AMRA has signed a new agreement to integrate its body composition analysis into Siemens Healthineers Digital Ecosystem for increased access to healthcare professionals and researchers. Intended to aid in disease prediction, AMRA’s body composition analysis is an automated method designed to convert a six-minute whole body MRI scan into 3D-volumetric fat and muscle measurements.
The medical industry is constantly changing. New medical devices are created at an alarming rate. It’s crucial that the companies creating these devices are able to keep up with the latest technology. Medical devices perform a wide variety of extremely important jobs. Any malfunction or failure can be disastrous.
New US research has found that smoking while pregnant could be even worse for children with asthma than exposing them to secondhand smoke in childhood.
Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat to human health. Novo Holdings today announces the launch of an impact fund commissioned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation with a total budget of USD 165 million to invest in companies involved in discovering and early-stage development of therapies to combat antimicrobial resistance.
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