San Francisco based Verge Genomics, the Neuroscience based drug discovery company launched in 2015, has raised $32 million in early venture capital financing to bring its AI-generated compounds against Parkinson’s disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) to clinics within the next three years.
The CQC rated the South Doc Services Limited as ‘outstanding’ in a report on 11 July. The service operates virtual primary care services for the MyHealthcare GP federation, functioning at several hubs across Birmingham with more than 47 GP practices under its umbrella catering to around 300,000 registered patients. The report praised how the “service used technology to improve treatment and to support patients’ independence”.
$1.5 million was raised in a seed investment round to support the development of its futuristic automated external defibrillators by Hearthero, a medtech startup.
In a joint venture, German biopharmaceutical firm BioNTech and Genevant Sciences, a genetic disorder therapeutics maker plan to develop mRNA therapy programmes targeting rare diseases with severely deficient medical attention.
Despite the looming crises, Novartis will be shutting down antimicrobial research at its Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research campus in Emeryville, California. There will be a loss of 140 jobs and the current projects will be put up for sale. This company was working on phase 2 clinical trial of LYS228 against complicated urinary tract infections and complicated intra-abdominal infections. The work on anti-dengue drugs and anti-malaria drugs (KAF156 and KAE609) were already in pipeline.
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.
The FoI request was sent by enterprise IT firm Intercity Technology to as many as 143 NHS trusts in England. Out of these, 80 responded, of which 25 reported outages across their IT systems during the period from January 2015 to February 2018.
A study report published in Nature's Digital Medicine partner journal shows that the wearable monitor Fitbit Charge HR could assess the health condition of cancer patients and predict their adverse events.
Cerner and Lumeris have brought together their technologies to result in EHR agnostic. The Kansas City, Missouri-based Cerner specializes in EHRs and other IT solutions whereas the St. Louis, Missouri-based Lumeris’ technique involves value-based care.
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