In a regulatory round-up, the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency opened a survey regarding in-house device manufacturing, the EU Notified Bodies staffed up last year and the Singapore Health Sciences Authority and the Hong Kong Department of Health agreed to share information.
Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Apreo Health, Providence Medical Technology, Ultrasound AI.
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Avodah, Avodahmed, Protest Diagnostics, Pulse 4 Pulse, Syncell, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Trinity Biotech.
Regulatory snapshots, including global submissions and approvals, clinical trial approvals and other regulatory decisions and designations: Deepsight, Sonic Incytes.
The difference between the origin of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and its symptoms is an obstacle to finding effective treatments. Scientists focused on amyloid-β (Aβ) plaques and tau aggregates to slow neurodegeneration and cognitive decline. Without identifying what causes AD, approved treatments do not provide much benefit.
Colorectal cancer is among the most common malignant tumor types and the second leading cause of tumor-related deaths worldwide. Tumor necrosis factor α-induced protein 8-like protein 2 (TIPE2) is a protein member of the TIPE family and highly expressed in immune cells. The prognostic impact and the relationship with tumor immunity of TIPE2 plus other immune markers such as CD8, CD20 and CD66b were evaluated in colorectal cancer by researchers from First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University and collaborators.
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposed to use AI to cut down on abuse of the Medicare program, but several members of Congress have concerns about the notion, given that private payers have used AI to illegitimately deny services to their beneficiaries.
Daewoong Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. and Daewoong Therapeutics Inc. reported that their self-developed microneedle patch loaded with semaglutide demonstrated 80% relative bioavailability compared to an injectable subcutaneous formulation of semaglutide in a pilot human pharmacokinetic study. That far exceeds rates seen in other patches or oral formulations.