Clinical updates, including trial initiations, enrollment status and data readouts and publications: Agendia, Caris, Creatv Microtech, Diadem, Exact Sciences, Myriad.
Med-tech firms raising money in public or private financings, including: Abcellera Biologics, American Bio Medica, Certara, Nanobiotix, Neovasc, Vivos Therapeutics.
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: FDA delays comment period for electromagnetic compatibility draft; CMS, ONC post info sharing, prior authorization rule; Van Hollen debuts diagnostic accuracy bill; CDC updates POC testing guidelines; GAO: Specimen biopsy handling errors relatively low.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Genetic differences important in Alzheimer’s diagnosis; Stanford develops tool for studying neural activity; Gut microbiota plays a role in brain function, mood regulation.
LONDON – A study of genetic variants in patients with life-threatening COVID-19 has shed light on the mechanisms that underpin severe disease, uncovered new drug targets and pointed to approved drugs, including JAK inhibitors and phosphodiesterase type 4 inhibitors, as therapies that could aid recovery.
The FDA’s vaccine advisory committee voted 17-4 with one abstention Dec. 10 to recommend an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the Pfizer Inc./Biontech SE mRNA vaccine BNT-162b2 to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 16 and older.
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