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March 11, 2016

Sale Details Still Being Negotiated: Toshiba selling medical systems unit to Canon for estimated $6B

Three months after the Japanese conglomerate Toshiba Corp. decided to cut loose of its health care and services unit, industry giant Canon Inc. is likely to scoop it up for $6 billion. Read More

Regulatory: FDA gives its blessing to OSMA petition for class II for cervical screws

One Step at a Time: Mayo, UCSF moving pharmacogenomics to front-line care

Exoskeleton marketto reach $2.1B by 2021: PH scores FDA nod for exoskeleton, Rewalk stumbles with warning letter

Sientra reports losses, may shed Silimed as Brazilian manufacturer

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IL-22 and TL1A, a robust couple for diagnosing hidradenitis suppurativa

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Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with strong association with psoriasis and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). While some...

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Inhibiting the NLRP3 inflammasome for cognitive impairment, stroke

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Vascular cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) and cerebral small vessel disease are among the leading causes of dementia, where inflammation is known to play...

New mechanism of action identified for QC-6352

BioWorld Science

QC-6352 is a small molecule developed to inhibit the histone demethylase 4 (KDM4) that has shown potent antitumoral activity and which has a derivative named...

VST Bio’s VB-001 is neuroprotector after stroke

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At the recent International Stroke Conference, researchers from VST Bio Corp. and Yale University presented preclinical data regarding VB-001, a monoclonal...