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Philips Delivers Q2 Sales of EUR 4.7 Billion, with 6 pct Comparable Sales Growth and 8 pct Comparable Order Intake Growth; Income from Continuing Operations Increases to EUR 260 Million and Adjusted EBITA Margin Improves to 11.8 pct

Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS, Jul. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Second-quarter highlights • Sales in the quarter amounted to EUR 4.7 billion, with 6% comparable sales growth • Comparable order intake increased 8% • Income from continuing operations increased to EUR 260 million, compared to EUR 186 million in Q2 2018 • Adjusted EBITA margin was 11.8% of sales, [...]

Afya Limited Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

NEW YORK, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Afya Limited (“Afya”) today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 13,744,210 Class A common shares at a public offering price of $19.00 per share. Afya is issuing and selling 11,827,256 shares of Class A common shares and certain selling shareholders are selling an additional 1,916,954 [...]

Silence Therapeutics and Mallinckrodt Announce Collaboration to Develop and Commercialize RNAi Therapeutics for Complement-mediated Diseases

LONDON and STAINES-UPON-THAMES, United Kingdom, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Mallinckrodt plc (NYSE: MNK), a global biopharmaceutical company, and Silence Therapeutics plc (LON: SLN), a leader in the discovery, development and delivery of novel RNA2 interference (RNAi) therapeutics for the treatment of serious diseases, today announced a collaboration that will allow the companies to develop [...]

Philips and TeleTracking Join Together as Founding Sponsors of ‘Command Center Summit: Connected Care Delivery’

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced its founding sponsorship of BRI Network’s inaugural Command Center Summit: Connected Care Delivery (July 15-16, 2019, Chicago, US), alongside the summit’s other founding sponsor TeleTracking Technologies, Inc. As care delivery becomes more complex, [...]

Philips and Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Nancy Announce 10-year Enterprise Informatics Agreement to Increase Efficiency and Improve Patient Care

Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Nancy, France, July 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, and Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire (CHRU) de Nancy, a leading academic hospital in the Grand Est region of France, today announced a 10-year agreement to implement Philips’ IntelliSpace Enterprise Imaging Solution, including Illumeo with [...]

Nanobiotix Announces Publication of Phase III Soft Tissue Sarcoma Data for First-in-class NBTXR3 in the Lancet Oncology

Paris, France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Jul. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – NANOBIOTIX (Euronext: NANO – ISIN: FR0011341205), a clinical-stage nanomedicine company pioneering new approaches to the treatment of cancer, today announced that the previously reported results from the Phase II/III Act.In.Sarc trial evaluating NBTXR3 in patients with advanced STS have been published online in The [...]

Lung Ambition Alliance Launches with Goal to Double Five-year Survival in Lung Cancer by 2025

LONDON, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), Guardant Health, the Global Lung Cancer Coalition (GLCC) and AstraZeneca announced the Lung Ambition Alliance, a new partnership with a bold ambition to eliminate lung cancer as a cause of death. The first goal of the Alliance will [...]

SunGen Pharma Receives Sixth ANDA Approval from US FDA

PRINCETON, N.J., Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — SunGen Pharma, a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company which develops, contract manufactures, and sells pharmaceutical finished products, today announced it has received its sixth ANDA approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The sixth approved ANDA is for Methylprednisolone tablets, 4 mg. This drug product is [...]

Batavia Biosciences Receives $2.2 Million Follow-up Grant from PATH to Support New Tools for Polio Eradication Era

Leiden, Jul. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Today, Batavia Biosciences announces it received a follow-up grant of $2.2 million from PATH – a global organization dedicated to health equity – to develop and manufacture novel oral poliovirus vaccines (nOPV). The project, which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aims to protect children worldwide from all [...]

Philips Ships Two-millionth AED, Helping to Save Lives Across the Globe

Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA), a global leader in health technology, today announced shipment of its two-millionth AED (Automated External Defibrillator), which was delivered to a customer in Italy. This achievement marks a major milestone in almost 20 years of Philips innovation in cardiac resuscitation aimed [...]