Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Apellis, Aerpio, Bergenbio, Bioeclipse, Brii, Can-Fite, Eli Lilly, GT, Immutep, Longeveron, Macrogenics, Ocuphire, Seelos, Tersera.
A bad patient experience with telehealth can blunt adoption regardless of the incentives for developers and doctors. Griffin Mulcahey, chief compliance officer at Wheel Health Inc., of Austin, Texas, said during a recent webinar that users of these digital health apps and telemedicine programs may need assistance to get up to speed on an application, a critical effort that may make the difference between success and failure in telehealth.
CAJICA, Colombia – Cuba’s Center for the State Control of Drugs, Equipment and Medical Devices gave the green light March 3 for phase III trials of a domestically developed COVID-19 vaccine candidate, even though very little peer-reviewed information has been published about it.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting biopharma, including: Australia eases substitution requirements; Guidance details fast-tracking modified vaccines.
Regulatory snapshots, including global drug submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Kronos, Nervgen, Nicox, Novadip, Ocumension, Pfizer, RDIF, Regeneron, Sanofi.
LONDON – The SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern that caused a wave of infection in Manaus, Brazil, in December and January has been found to be both more transmissible and to evade immunity conferred by prior natural infection with the virus. A combined Brazil/U.K. genome sequencing and epidemiological study found the variant, called P.1., is between 1.4 and 2.2 times more transmissible than earlier lineages, and can evade 25% to 61% of the protective immunity elicited by previous infection.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: GAO reviews FEMA's pandemic supply chain management efforts; Testing lab owner sentenced to three years; Health Canada renews interim order for importation of devices; FDA: claims of registration certificates may be misleading; MDCG issues gap guidance pending Eudamed completion; FDA seeking nominations for advisory committee.
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