Stryker Corp. is scrambling to recover from a cyberattack that’s disrupting its global network and being claimed by pro-Iranian hackers. “At this time, there is no indication of malware or ransomware, and we believe the situation is contained to our internal Microsoft environment only,” the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based med-tech company said March 12.
A study involving a small cohort of women who have received womb transplants has cast fresh light on how the immune system shapes pregnancy outcomes, opening up new avenues of research into implantation failure, preeclampsia and preterm birth. Using an array of single cell analyses, scientists at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) studied the composition and gene expression profiles of immune cells in tissue samples from five women who had received womb transplants.
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) launched its Delphi program March 10 to advance the development of the next generation of wearable and ingestible biosensors that can securely report deep biological data to optimize health care.
The U.S. FDA has begun moving its patchwork of adverse event (AE) reporting systems into a single, intuitive AE platform that will cover all its centers.
A study involving a small cohort of women who have received womb transplants has cast fresh light on how the immune system shapes pregnancy outcomes, opening up new avenues of research into implantation failure, preeclampsia and preterm birth.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is partnering with Verily Life Sciences LLC, an Alphabet Inc. company, and B.well Connected Health to turn Samsung Galaxy phones and smart watches into the “front door” of U.S. health care.
The strife-marked Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) space drew forth another outspoken political figure in the shape of Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), who said he was “enraged” by the U.S. FDA’s refusal to consider PTC Therapeutics Inc.’s Translarna (ataluren) for the treatment of nonsense mutation disease.
Shortly after Amgen Inc. walked away from its partnership with Kyowa Kirin Co. Ltd., the Tokyo-based company said it is discontinuing all ongoing clinical trials for rocatinlimab due to safety concerns.
Although Aisa Pharma Inc’s cilnidipine (AISA-021) failed to meet the primary endpoint, multiple secondary endpoints showed statistically significant improvement in treating sclerosis-associated Raynaud's phenomenon, potentially positioning the drug for a phase III program in a disease with no approved oral therapies globally.
Rapport Therapeutics Inc. added $20 million to its cash runway for its lead phase III oral seizure drug, RAP-219, through a potential $328 million license deal signed with Tenacia Biotechnology Co. Ltd.
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