PERTH, Australia – Australian digital health company Resapp Health Ltd. received clearance from Australia’s Therapeutics Good Administration and CE mark certification in the EU for its stand-alone cough counter application that tracks cough frequency using a smartphone. The class I software as a medical device is the first regulatory approval for such an application, which uses Resapp’s machine learning algorithms to identify cough events from audio recorded using the smartphone’s in-built microphone.
PERTH, Australia – It’s been a year that Mesoblast Ltd. might like to forget. The company’s stock dropped 17% Dec. 15 on the news that Novartis AG will terminate its licensing agreement with Mesoblast for remestemcel-L.
The FDA has approved Astrazeneca plc and Amgen Inc.’s first-in-class biologic, tezepelumab, for the add-on maintenance treatment of adults and children ages 12 and older with severe asthma, adding further competition to a hotly contested market. An injection marketed under the brand name Tezspire, tezepelumab inhibits the action of thymic stromal lymphopoietin (anti-TLSP). This is a signaling molecule at the top of several cascades influencing allergic, eosinophilic and other types of airway inflammation associated with severe asthma, including airway hyperresponsiveness.
PERTH, Australia – It’s been a year that Mesoblast Ltd. might like to forget. The company’s stock dropped 17% on the news that Novartis AG will terminate its licensing agreement with Mesoblast for remestemcel-L. The decision puts an end to an exclusive global licensing deal Mesoblast inked with Novartis in November 2020 for the development, manufacture and commercialization of the mesenchymal stromal cell product, with an initial focus on acute respiratory distress syndrome, including that associated with COVID-19.
Stimulating the innate immune system with defective viral genomes (DVG)-based strategy provided broad-spectrum protection against RNA viral infections, including SARS-CoV-2 and other respiratory diseases in animal models, according to a U.S.-led international collaborative study reported in the Nov. 17, 2021, edition of Cell.
RSS
