Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of blindness among the elderly. The most commonly used drugs to slow the progression of the disease is Roche’s Lucentis and Regeneron’s Eylea. These drugs are injected into the eye which, needless to say, leads to more inconvenience.
Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease affecting the myelin sheath that surrounds nerve fibers in the central nervous system, composed of the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerve. Since myelin is destroyed, it creates lesions which leads to an interruption in communication between the brain cells.
The first-ever 3D, color X-rays were tested on a human by New Zealand Scientists, using technology that promises to enhance medical diagnostics in oncology, cardiology, neurology and orthopedics.
In the United States alone, there are an estimated 20,000 people living with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also called as Lou Gehrig's disease. The fatal disease destroys the nerve cells which control breathing, walking, and eating. Very few people survive more than three years after being diagnosed.
Spero Therapeutics granted $15.7 million for research on SPR994, its oral carbapenem-class candidate, to study the drug’s efficacy against biological threats like anthrax, plague and melioidosis as a part of an interagency collaboration.
iBeat, a San Francisco-based start-up, launched a new pulse sensitive feature called iBeat Heart Watch which alerts healthcare professionals if it detects someone going into cardiac arrest.
Bristol-Myers Squibb’s recent immunotherapy combo won FDA approval for patients with a rare colon cancer. The combinational medicine was formulated between an older medicine named Yervoy and a new cancer-fighter Opdivo. This combo drug focuses on repairing the mismatch gene.
The healthcare sector has gained its entry into the new era of genomics and precision medicine. There are numerous health IT vendors, who offer to help healthcare providers by providing the right data with the objective of utmost patient care.
Gilead’s Yescarta and Novartis’ Kymriah garnered a lot of interest among T-cell therapies after producing high response rates in patients with lymphoma and leukemia. However, the same has not been true for this technology in cases of solid tumors. In this novel procedure, patients’ immune-boosting T cells are extracted and engineered to target and destroy cancer cells.
The premarket approval of Pulmonx’s Zephyr Endobronchial Valve to treat severe emphysema has green-lighted by the FDA. Zephyr is a pencil eraser-sized device delivered directly to the lung in a minimally invasive procedure. After the successful delivery, the device stops air from entering diseased parts of the lung during breathing. This mechanism prevents the air from getting trapped by damaged alveoli and stops the breathing difficulties.
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