A study of the global prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) estimates that it affects as many as 8 out of 10,000 children, highlighting the need to improve public education about the potential harm of drinking alcohol during pregnancy.
US regulators have accepted an application by AstraZeneca and MedImmune to expand the scope of Imfinzi (durvalumab) to include patients with a certain form of lung cancer.
Medical equipment maker MagicMed Technologies (Beijing) Co. has secured USD1.5 million (CNY10 million) in pre-series A financing. The funds will help the firm hasten the commercialization of its Magitor Cell, a single channel electrocardiographic monitoring device.
The review, led by Jerome Pesenti, chief executive of BenevolentTech and Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton, says AI is expected to make “great improvements” for the public, including more personalised services, better healthcare and more efficient use of resources.
Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Boston Children’s Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the US have developed a paediatric surgical implant that grows along with the child.
Spark Therapeutics Inc's experimental gene therapy for a rare form of blindness improves vision and should be approved, advisers to the Food and Drug Administration concluded on Thursday, paving the way for the first U.S. gene therapy for an inherited disease.
InflaRx, the biopharmaceutical company developing new therapeutics in the terminal complement space, announced a $ 55M Series D financing and investment round.
Warp Drive Bio, Inc., a drug discovery company developing therapeutics that exploit the molecules and mechanisms of nature, announced today that it has formed a strategic collaboration with Roche to discover and develop multiple novel classes of antibiotics. The serious global health threat of multi-drug-resistant bacterial infections has created an urgent need for new antibiotics with novel structures and mechanisms of action.
Pfizer Inc. today announced full results from the Phase 2 clinical trial of the investigational, next-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor lorlatinib that exhibited clinically meaningful activity against lung tumors and brain metastases in a range of patients with ALK-positive and ROS1-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), including those who were heavily pretreated.
Back in April, England’s cost watchdogs said they wouldn’t cover Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo in head and neck cancer due to “uncertain” clinical evidence. Now, though, they’re singing a different tune.
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