HealthBot, a healthcare start-up, aims to bring the best of medical services to people staying in remote locations, especially rural areas, through its technology platform.
A new gene therapy to treat a debilitating eye disorder is one step closer to regulatory approval in Europe. Gene therapy company MeiraGTx said the European Medicines Agency granted Priority Medicines (PRIME) designation to its candidate A002 for treatment of achromatopsia.
Qualcomm Life announced an exclusive licensing agreement with AlertWatch, creator of an FDA-cleared intelligence care software that assists in the care of patients in the operating room. The deal will give Qualcomm Life the exclusive rights to sell AlertWatch, which the company plans to showcase at HIMSS 2018.
Boston-based startup Pear Therapeutics will link with Novartis to develop prescription-strength digital interventions for schizophrenia and multiple sclerosis (MS).
Revamped Cas9 protein could work on more sites in the genome, and with fewer unwanted effects.
Generation Bio said it closed a $100 million series B financing to advance to the clinic its first two therapeutics candidates using its GeneWave platform to develop a new class of genetic medicines with drug-like qualities.
Celgene has been slammed with a refuse-to-file letter from the FDA for ozanimod, the biggest late-stage drug it has in the pipeline.
Designation Based on Positive Results of Phase 2b Trial of GC4419 Severe Oral Mucositis Affects 70 Percent of Head & Neck Cancer Patients Receiving Radiotherapy
Scientists have brought the prospect of spinal cord injuries being able to be treated with stem cells one step closer, after research in monkeys showed improvement post-stem cell graft.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (VRTX) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved SYMDEKO™ (tezacaftor/ivacaftor and ivacaftor) for treating the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF) in people ages 12 and older who have two copies of the F508del mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene or who have at least one mutation that is responsive to tezacaftor/ivacaftor. SYMDEKO is Vertex’s third medicine approved to treat the underlying cause of CF. Vertex is ready to launch SYMDEKO and will begin shipping it to pharmacies in the United States this week.
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