I-Cordis LLC has been awarded a phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant for US$1,548,708 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to further develop a potential immune-modulatory treatment for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF).
Seagen Inc. and University of Minnesota have synthesized compounds and their antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) comprising humanized monoclonal antibody (MAb) bound to Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) or TLR8 agonists through linker reported to be useful for the treatment of cancer.
An administrative law judge has decreed that the acquisition of Grail Inc., by Illumina Inc., would not represent a suppression of competition in the market for multicancer early detection (MCED) tests, clearing a way for an acquisition that was initially valued at more than $7 billion.
The U.S. FDA’s formation of the Digital Health Center of Excellence (DHCoE) was heralded as a key enabler of digital health technologies, but the news hasn’t necessarily had the expected effect. The agency’s December 2021 draft guidance on the use of digital health technologies to assist in the conduct of clinical trials is still in regulatory drydock.
Since its launch in the U.S. in April, Biolab Sciences Inc.’s Dermistat has facilitated the healing of 80 wounds using its unusual gel-graft formula. The product transforms a patient’s skin cells into a partial thickness skin graft in 48 hours and a full-thickness graft in five to seven days. The autologous graft material speeds recovery following surgery or burns and helps to resolve non-healing wounds.
Irked by what state officials described as "bureaucratic roadblocks" to Florida's proposal for importing cheaper prescription drugs from Canada, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Aug. 31 announced a state lawsuit against the U.S. FDA.
A variety of positive airway pressure (PAP) devices made by Philips Respironics Inc. have been subject to a lengthy and expensive recall due to the use of a problematic material in acoustic insulation foam, but now the company has a new headache in connection with its offerings. The FDA said this latest safety notification is due to the possible presence of a plastic that is contaminated with a non-compatible material, although this recall affects fewer than 400 units.
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a deep learning computer model that expands on the ability to identify discrete data contained in breast imaging to better predict a woman’s chances of developing breast cancer.
Five months after winning its first approval in Japan, Sanofi SA’s enzyme replacement therapy, Xenpozyme (olipudase alfa), earned a U.S. FDA nod for use in pediatric and adult patients with acid sphingomyelinase deficiency (ASMD), becoming the first medication designed to treat symptoms not related to the central nervous system.
Right on cue, the U.S. FDA authorized bivalent COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna Inc. and Pfizer Inc.-Biontech SE to be given as boosters at least two months following a primary vaccine series or a previous booster. “These updated boosters present us with an opportunity to get ahead of the next wave of COVID-19,” FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said, following the Aug. 31 announcement.
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