With a growing number of people wearing continuous glucose monitors and an ever-shrinking number of hospital-based nurses, bringing your own device or using personal CGMs to measure glucose levels during hospitalizations seems like a no-brainer.
The U.K. government will offer women home-testing kits for cervical screening as part of an effort to tackle barriers and get more of them taking this potentially life-saving test.
Pregnant women with type 1 diabetes who used a hybrid closed loop automated insulin delivery system averaged more than three additional hours per day in their recommended glucose range than those who managed their diabetes with insulin injections or non-automated pump systems, a study presented at the 85th Scientific Sessions of the American Association in Chicago demonstrated.
Immuno Cure Biotech Ltd. is collaborating with Pharmajet Inc. to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of its HIV therapeutic DNA vaccine, Icvax, delivered via Pharmajet's innovative Tropis needle-free injection system.
Post pandemic, Moderna Inc. is broadening the applications of mRNA technology to cancer, rare diseases, latent viruses and respiratory viruses, “taking advantage” of the revenue generated by Spikevax (elasomeran), its mRNA-based vaccine for COVID-19.
Atopic dermatitis data from Nektar Therapeutics Inc. put investors even more in the mood for further results with rezpegaldesleukin (rezpeg), an IL-2 pathway agonist and regulatory T-cell proliferator, also in the works for severe to very severe alopecia areata.
At the American Diabetes Association 85th Scientific Sessions in Chicago June 20-23, Fractyl Health Inc. presented results from two studies evaluating very different approaches to treating – and possibly curing – type 2 diabetes.
Cidara Therapeutics Inc. will meet with the FDA to discuss strongly favorable phase IIb results from its randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase IIb Navigate trial testing CD-388 for the prevention of seasonal influenza in healthy, unvaccinated adults aged 18-64. Meanwhile, shares of the San Diego-based firm (NASDAQ:CDTX) closed June 23 at $44.95, up $23.93, or 113.8%, as Wall Street learned that the study met its primary endpoint, turning up a statistically significant prevention efficacy for each of three dose groups in people given a single shot at the beginning of the flu season.
Hitting the primary endpoint on Compass Pathways plc’s Comp005 study of synthetic psilocybin, which the company billed as the first classic psychedelic to report phase III efficacy data, produced only a shrug from investors.
Immuno Cure Biotech Ltd. is collaborating with Pharmajet Inc. to evaluate the safety and immunogenicity of its HIV therapeutic DNA vaccine, Icvax, delivered via Pharmajet's innovative Tropis needle-free injection system.