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Coronavirus vs U.S. wrecking balls

FDA sees swabs as ‘hot topic,’ will hold town hall for 3D-printed swabs

May 13, 2020
By Mark McCarty
The FDA’s weekly town hall on testing for the COVID-19 pandemic included the usual range of concerns about test performance, but concerns regarding swabs and sample sites continue to mount. The predicament has led to the announcement that the FDA along with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will hold a May 15 town hall regarding swabs, with a particular interest in swabs produced via additive manufacturing.
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Nanthealth looks to help cancer patients during pandemic

May 13, 2020
By Liz Hollis
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting cancer treatment plans? Oncologists are weighing switching treatment plans, and they have many questions. That’s where Nanthealth Inc., of El Segundo, Calif., is looking to help.
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Eko device and software in use during in-clinic screening

Eko scores EUA for algorithm to identify heart failure in COVID-19 patients

May 13, 2020
By Meg Bryant
The U.S. FDA has given the greenlight to Eko Devices Inc.’s electrocardiogram (ECG)-based algorithm to aid in detecting patients with heart failure during the COVID-19 pandemic. The artificial intelligence (AI)-powered algorithm, which provides a quick way to screen for low ejection fraction, won FDA breakthrough status in December of 2019.
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World Medical Innovation Forum

U.S. COVID-19 Dx: Lack of centralization meets flourishing innovation, as disorder prevails

May 13, 2020
By Stacy Lawrence
The U.S. does not have a universal health care system, which means that it fails to provide a consistent level of minimum care across its population. That means that basic and preventative care often falls through the cracks, even as the U.S. continues to excel at medical innovation and offer the most highly regarded health care in the world to those who can afford it.
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Regulatory actions for May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Critical Alert, Eko, Novocure, Optina Diagnostics, Zai Lab.
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Other news to note for May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Access Scientific, Apiject, Atrium Health, Butterfly Network, Canon Medical, Carmat, Centene, Change Healthcare, Dermalog, DNA Electronics, The DNA Company, Drӓgerwerk, Edap Tms, Exact Imaging, Liva Healthcare, My Next Health, My Pain Sensei, Nuvo Group, Polyganics, Rapid USA, REMsleep Holdings, Smiths Medical, Surfacide, Thermo Fisher Scientific, United Healthcare Services, Wuxi Diagnostics, Xleratehealth.
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Coronavirus and DNA

U.K. genome sequencing project aims to identify genetic links to severe COVID-19 infection

May 13, 2020
By Nuala Moran
LONDON – The U.K. is launching a £28 million (US$34.5 million) project to sequence the whole genome of every COVID-19 patient in the country treated in intensive care, with the aim of uncovering host genetic factors that lead some people to be more severely affected by the infection. The study will involve up to 20,000 people currently or previously treated in one of 170 intensive care units (ICUs), whose genomes will be compared to 15,000 people with a confirmed infection who had mild or moderate symptoms.
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Australia’s Mesoblast raises $90M to scale up stem cell therapy manufacturing to treat COVID-19 ARDS

May 13, 2020
By Tamra Sami
PERTH, Australia – Australian stem cell company Mesoblast Ltd. completed a capital raising of AU$138 million (US$90 million) to scale up manufacturing of its allogeneic cell therapy, remestemcel-L, to treat COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
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Coronavirus viral membrane

Mexican university basing COVID-19 vaccine on Zika, dengue

May 13, 2020
By Sergio Held
CAJICA, Colombia – Previous research to develop vaccines for dengue and Zika virus could become the cornerstone for a vaccine against COVID-19, which the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is working on.
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Other news to note for May 13, 2020

May 13, 2020
Biopharma happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Aerpio, Beam, Boehringer Ingelheim, CDR-Life, Cipla, Citius, Cmab, Creoptix, Cytoagents, GB004, Forward Pharma, Genespire, Genocea, Gilead, Gossamer, Hetero Labs, Jaguar, Legend, Lipocine, Mind Medicine, Mylan, Noile-Immune, Novellus, Opiant, Oxford Biomedica, Passage Bio, Point Biopharma, Primary Peptides, Qurebio, Reithera, Simcere, Stoke.
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