UCB is beefing up its pipeline of epilepsy drugs with an NDA-ready therapy from Proximagen. The Belgian company has agreed to buy their nasal spray therapy USL261, designed as a rescue therapy for acute repetitive seizures, for $150 million in cash and another $220 million in sales and regulatory milestones.
Malware from a newly disclosed hacking campaign has infected the networks of multinational health care companies, including some X-ray and MRI machines, cybersecurity firm Symantec warned Monday.
Researchers from the University of California San Diego have developed a low-cost, single-use tattoo-like wearable that measures the user’s glucose levels. According to a release from the institution, this noninvasive technology will be at the center of a newly announced pilot clinical trial designed to test the accuracy and acceptability of the tattoos.
Inventiva S.A. ("Inventiva" or the "Company"), a biopharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), systemic sclerosis (SSc) and mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS), today announces the successful completion of the issuance of 5,572,500 new ordinary shares without preferential subscription rights (the "New Shares") for a total gross proceeds of approximately €35.5 million by means of a private placement reserved to a specified category of investors as described below (the "Reserved Offering"). The Reserved Offering was conducted by Jefferies International Limited, acting as Global Coordinator and Joint Bookrunner, and Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking and Gilbert Dupont acting as Joint Bookrunners (together with the Global Coordinator and Joint Bookrunner, the "Managers"). Namsen Capital acted as Inventiva's Capital Markets Advisor.
Eli Lilly and Incyte’s second attempt to get U.S. approval of rheumatoid arthritis drug baricitinib could be scuppered again by lingering FDA concerns about safety. A briefing document published ahead of the April 23 advisory committee meeting on baricitinib suggests that Lilly and Incyte’s lightning-fast amendment and refile of the dossier hasn’t added enough data to persuade the FDA to change its stance on the risk of blood clots with the JAK inhibitor.
Recent doubts about traditional egg-based flu shots could mean more business for vaccines manufactured in cells. Protection against the dominant H3N2 flu strain offered by the coming season’s flu vaccine will still be far from optimal—putting it mildly. And that's thanks to the widely used manufacturing process based on eggs, a new study predicts.
GSK is shifting resources towards key therapeutic classes, including respiratory disease.
When Parachute Health founder and CEO David Gelbard’s father was discharged from the hospital following spine surgery, the hospital ordered a walker to assist him as he recovered. But for weeks, it didn’t arrive and Gelbard’s father subsequently fell, adding years to his rehabilitation.
The mHealth app, designed by researchers at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, helps obstetric care providers identify perinatal depression in soon-to-be and new mothers and gives them care management tips.
Novartis is hoping multiple sclerosis candidate siponimod’s performance in secondary progressive patients can help it secure a blockbuster approval. And now it has more data to put toward that case.
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