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BEIJING – Med-tech firm Shanghai Asclepius Meditec Co. Ltd. says it has developed a hydrogen-oxygen nebulizer that can help relieve the shortage of ventilators, highlighting the potential of hydrogen-oxygen therapy in tackling COVID-19. Named the AMS-H-03, this class III medical respiratory device can produce three liters of mixed gas containing hydrogen and oxygen by using water electrolysis and can run continuously for 24 hours, according to the company.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Medical societies ink guidelines for breast cancer care for pandemic; Multiple drivers explained; Study points to new genetic associations for osteosarcoma.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Advanced Sterilization Products, Axonics, Becton Dickinson, Intact Vascular, The Learning Corp, Mobidiag, Spectral.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: 3M, Altru Institute, Co-Diagnostics, Cummins, Emed Technologies, Fitbit, Flex, Fluidigm, Inspire Medical Systems, Intersect ENT, Jabil, Lantheus, Medalliance, Meridian Bioscience, OralDNA, Progenics, Promega, Repro Medical, Royal Philips, Rucdr, Sonnet Biotherapeutics, Transmedics, Vault Health, Vomaris Innovations.
DUBLIN – Sanofi SA and Glaxosmithkline plc are lending their considerable weight to the urgent global effort to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 by teaming up to develop an adjuvanted recombinant subunit vaccine that will employ technologies from each company. Paris-based Sanofi is contributing its recombinant spike protein antigen and its baculovirus expression system, which is also the basis of its U.S.-licensed influenza vaccine Flublok. London-based GSK is contributing its pandemic adjuvant technology.
LONDON – Companies represented in the expert group brought together by the World Health Organization (WHO) to work on the development of COVID-19 vaccines have signed a pledge to strengthen collaboration and sharing of data.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: 7 Hills, Alnylam, AVM, Epirium, Grid, Kadmon, KD Pharma, Lifemax.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Aldeyra, Amgen, Astrazeneca, Beigene, Bioinvent, Calithera, Cytokinetics, Healios, Madrigal, Outlook.
In order to redirect health care resources and protect patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, many drug companies have paused enrollment in some or all of their ongoing clinical trials. But patients still in the studies need to be followed for safety and efficacy, creating challenges for the industry.
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