The development story of tumor drugs is always so similar: the early stage may be endless suffering, but after countless failures and dashed hopes, once there is a breakthrough, the progress is often unexpected. This is the development of drugs for the treatment of small cell carcinoma (SCLC). SCLC was first discovered about 100 years ago, but it was not until 1968 that the medical community discovered its neuroendocrine origin and finally clearly distinguished it from other lung cancers. In the 1980s, the treatment of platinum-containing chemotherapy combined with chest radiotherapy gradually became clear and became the basic treatment for small cell lung cancer. Although the combination of etoposide and carboplatin/cisplatin (EP) has been the standard treatment for SCLC until now; but we can also clearly see that the battle against small cell lung cancer has entered an accelerated stage. In May of this year, Amgen’s DLL3/CD3 dual antibody Tarlatamab ...
On October 28, 2024, Medtronic announced the appointment of Dr. Matthew Kroh as Chief Medical Officer for Advanced and General Surgery Technologies. Dr. Matthew Crowe is the Vice President of Innovation and Technology at the Cleveland Clinic Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute. He is the director of the Department of General Surgery, Endoscopic Surgery, and Foreintestinal Surgery. 01. Surgical Laparoscopic Specialist at Cleveland Medical Center Cleveland Clinic is one of the world’s most renowned medical institutions, founded on February 28, 1921. In the 2017-2018 ranking of the best hospitals in the United States, Cleveland Clinic ranked second overall, only behind Mayo Clinic. Among them, cardiac surgery and urology are ranked first in the United States; General surgery, rheumatology, and nephrology rank second. Dr. Matthew Crowe is from Cleveland Medical Center. According to the official website of the Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Matthew Crowe is the Vice President of Innovation and Technology ...
In the current Chinese medical device industry, competition is extremely fierce, and many fields have become saturated, making it difficult to find new growth points or development space. But this set of data shows that there is a huge resource gap in the intervention of hearing loss in the elderly population in China. According to the “China Elderly Hearing Loss and Hearing Aid Application Survey” released by Tmall Health, Beijing Hearing Association, and Sonova Group, there is one professional hearing service provider for every 90000 people in China, which is much lower than the United States (9000:1). This huge gap not only reflects the scarcity of human resources allocation in this field in China, but also reflects the large scale of the population with hearing loss. 1. There are 120 million elderly people with hearing loss, and the wearing rate of hearing aids is less than 5% Hearing loss is ...
On October 29, the 2024 national negotiations entered the third day, and a group of companies such as Yangtze River, Yiling, China Resources Sanjiu, Jichuan, and Jianmin took their traditional Chinese medicine varieties to the stage. Before entering the venue in the afternoon, the overall atmosphere on the scene was relatively relaxed. When the staff of the Medical Insurance Bureau called the roll, some company representatives did not respond in time. Other company representatives joked, “Okay, automatically give up,” and everyone laughed. At the scene, many representatives of traditional Chinese medicine companies showed strong confidence in their products, and mentioned the advantages of traditional Chinese medicine over chemical medicine in the treatment of the same disease during the conversation. At the same time, this year’s national negotiations focus on “high-quality, cost-effective innovation” and also apply to traditional Chinese medicine. A representative of a traditional Chinese medicine company with exclusive varieties ...
According to overseas media Bloomberg, Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Co., Ltd. is considering a second listing in Hong Kong next year. People familiar with the matter said that the company is discussing potential share sales with consultants, which may raise at least US$2 billion (about HK$15.5 billion). This news has attracted widespread attention. In response, Hengrui Medicine said that it “would not comment” on the rumor.Affected by this news, Hengrui Medicine’s stock price has fluctuated significantly, and its current market value is about RMB 300 billion (US$43 billion). In recent years, “A+H” stocks have continued to expand. With the listing of Midea Group on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 17, there are currently 150 companies that have successfully achieved “A+H” dual listings. Among them are many biopharmaceutical companies, including innovative pharmaceutical companies: Innovent Biologics, Fudan Zhangjiang, CanSino Biologics, Rongchang Bio, Junshi Biosciences, BeiGene, etc., traditional pharmaceutical companies: Shanghai Pharmaceuticals, ...
Drugdu.com expert’s response: The impact of the tradability of IVD (In Vitro Diagnostic) registration certificates on the industry is multifaceted, encompassing the following aspects: Ⅰ. Facilitating Industry Consolidation Rapid Acquisition of Product Lines: Companies can quickly acquire new product lines by purchasing registration certificates, without the need for research and development from scratch, significantly shortening the time to market. Accelerating the Expansion of Large Enterprises: Large enterprises may rapidly expand their market share by acquiring registration certificates from smaller enterprises, further consolidating their market position. Ⅱ. Enhancing Research and Development Efficiency Focusing on R&D and Registration: Research institutions can concentrate more on product research and development, as well as registration, without worrying about subsequent production and sales issues. Shortening Product Cycles: By selling registration certificates to manufacturing enterprises, research institutions can obtain returns faster, thereby allocating more funds and resources to new research and development projects, further shortening the time ...
Recently, GE Healthcare is manufacturing the integrated Omni Legend PET/CT at its new production facility in Wisconsin. This marks the first time that the system has been produced domestically in the United States. 01. Innovative product Omni Legend PET/CT GE HealthCare launched its first PET/CT: Omni Legend on the fully digital Omni platform at the European Association for Nuclear Medicine (EANM) annual meeting in October 2022. The system achieved significant improvements in sensitivity, efficiency, radiation dose, and patient comfort. The system is equipped with a new digital BGO (dBGO) detector, aimed at improving examination efficiency, enhancing patient experience, and boosting diagnostic confidence. The system adopts a new category of digital BGO (dBGO) detector materials, with small crystal size and sensitivity more than twice that of existing digital scanners, which can achieve faster total scanning time and impressive small lesion detectability It aims to improve operational efficiency, enhance patient experience, and ...
Weighing the risks is the primary issue that all pharmaceutical companies need to consider when going overseas. The cost of going overseas is not cheap. Not to mention the time cost required to build overseas clinical, promotion, and registration experience, the capital cost is the top priority. BeiGene provides a good reference: although it has seen the dawn of profitability, this is based on the total loss of nearly 50 billion yuan in the past five years; Legend Biotech’s overseas cost is not low either. It is estimated that it has spent at least 1 billion US dollars since the establishment of the Xidaqiolunsai project. Industry insiders commented that this is far more expensive than imagined. From the perspective of capital investment alone, it can be asserted that there are not many pharmaceutical companies that can play the two cards of “local + going overseas” at the same time. To ...
Recently, Bloomberg reported that Apple selected some employees to conduct a blood sugar APP test. During the test, the subjects actively monitored their blood sugar through various devices on the market, and then recorded the changes in blood sugar levels caused by food intake. This study may allow Apple to more deeply integrate third-party blood sugar tracking into its own products. Apple has been planning blood sugar monitoring for a long time. In 2010, Jobs led the acquisition of RareLight, a non-invasive blood sugar monitoring company. In 2015, Apple’s frontier exploration department XDG took over the non-invasive blood sugar detection project and has invested a lot of money in recent years for concept verification. In February last year, Apple’s non-invasive blood sugar monitoring project was reported to have a major breakthrough. According to reports, Apple is developing a silicon photonic chip and a measurement process called “optical absorption spectroscopy”, which ...
The 2024 National Medical Insurance Negotiations entered the second day. Beijing was sunny. On this day, antidiabetic and tumor drugs were the highlights. On the second day of the National Negotiations, Huang Bin, Vice President of AstraZeneca China, and Xia Yu, founder, chairman, president and CEO of Kangfang Bio, appeared at the National Negotiations. On the morning of October 28, the companies participating in the negotiations included AstraZeneca, Hengrui, Xinlitai, Hisun, CSPC Pharmaceutical, etc.; in the afternoon, Zhejiang Jingxin Pharmaceutical, Union Qilin, Beijing Novartis, Luye Pharmaceutical, Jiangsu Hausen, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Qilu, Changchun Jinsai, Zejing Bio, Hengrui, Novo Nordisk, etc. were present. Some on-site observers said that anti-tumor, antidiabetic and other chronic disease drugs were the protagonists of the second day of the National Negotiations. The National Medical Insurance Administration has carried out adjustments to the medical insurance drug list for six consecutive years, adding a total of 744 drugs to ...
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