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World Stroke Organization and Philips call for action to expand access to life-saving stroke care

World Stroke Organization and Philips call for action to expand access to life-saving stroke care

September 10, 2024 Joint policy paper provides recommendations for effective policymaking and investments in stroke centers with specialized treatments to improve health outcomes and reduce costs Timely access to mechanical thrombectomy – a proven minimally invasive therapy to remove the blood clot that caused the stroke – has the potential to revolutionize treatment for major ischemic [...]

Vaping Expected to Increase COPD Health and Economic Burden by 2050

Vaping Expected to Increase COPD Health and Economic Burden by 2050

New ResMed-supported research presented at ERS 2024 projects future Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) burden in Western Europe, accounting for increased air pollution, tobacco smoking, and vaping, with Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) enhancing survival rates. 88.7 million new COPD hospitalizations projected across Western Europe between 2019 – 2050 Vaping projected to incur almost €30 billion additional [...]

A new report from the Access to Medicine Foundation reveals how patient-focused pharma companies’ access efforts are

A new report from the Access to Medicine Foundation reveals how patient-focused pharma companies’ access efforts are

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 10, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – The latest report from the Access to Medicine Foundation takes a first-ever look at the critical issue of how some of the largest pharmaceutical companies are reaching patients worldwide, especially in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Ahead of the 2024 Access to Medicine Index, the Foundation examined the [...]

Boehringer’s zongertinib shows encouraging efficacy and tolerability profile in previously treated HER2 mutated lung cancer patients

Boehringer’s zongertinib shows encouraging efficacy and tolerability profile in previously treated HER2 mutated lung cancer patients

Beamion LUNG-1, Phase Ib met its primary endpoint, demonstrating a meaningful objective response rate (ORR) of 66.7%, as assessed by blinded independent central review (BICR)1 Preliminary activity in patients with brain metastases were also observed, with an intracranial response of 33% and 74% disease control rate (DCR)  Zongertinib was generally well tolerated, with mostly mild [...]

Stratipath and Roche Join Forces to Help Expand Access to AI-Powered Precision Diagnostics

Stratipath and Roche Join Forces to Help Expand Access to AI-Powered Precision Diagnostics

Stratipath, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI)-based precision diagnostic solutions, is thrilled to announce a collaboration with Roche, the world’s largest biotechnology company and the global leader in in-vitro diagnostics. In this non-exclusive collaboration, Roche will have the distribution rights to the integrated Stratipath solution, Stratipath Breast. The integration between Stratipath Breast and Roche’s [...]

Nyxoah to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences

Nyxoah to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences

Nyxoah to Participate in Upcoming Investor Conferences Mont-Saint-Guibert, Belgium – September 5, 2024, 10:30pm CET / 4:30pm ET – Nyxoah SA (Euronext Brussels/Nasdaq: NYXH) (“Nyxoah” or the “Company”), a medical technology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative solutions to treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), today announced that the Company will participate in three [...]

Boehringer Ingelheim announces plans to advance potential new treatment for Geographic Atrophy, following positive Phase I results

Boehringer Ingelheim announces plans to advance potential new treatment for Geographic Atrophy, following positive Phase I results

Ingelheim, Germany and Basel, Switzerland, September 5, 2024 – Boehringer Ingelheim and CDR-Life today announce positive results from the Phase I evaluation of BI 771716 (Study Record | ClinicalTrials.gov), an investigational antibody fragment developed to preserve vision in people living with geographic atrophy (GA). BI 771716 met its primary safety endpoint following intravitreal administration of single and multiple [...]

Olon Continues its Growth Path and Announces a New Acquisition

Olon Continues its Growth Path and Announces a New Acquisition

Olon, the leading chemical-pharmaceutical group in the production and development of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and part of the holding company P&R, continues its growth path and announces a new venture: it will acquire HuvePharma Italia Srl and its site in Garessio, (Cuneo, Italy) with a significant increase in its total production capacity MILAN, Sept. [...]

Global Liver Institute Welcomes Larry R. Holden as CEO

Global Liver Institute Welcomes Larry R. Holden as CEO

Washington, DC, Sept. 03, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – The Board of Directors of Global Liver Institute (GLI), the premier liver patient advocacy organization, has appointed Larry R. Holden as the organization’s Chief Executive Officer, as of September 2024. Mr. Holden succeeds Founder and ten-year CEO Donna R. Cryer, JD, as the chief executive of the [...]

Recursion Announces Phase 2 Data of REC-994, a First-in-Disease Investigational Treatment for Symptomatic Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM), has Met its Primary Endpoint of Safety and Tolerability

Recursion Announces Phase 2 Data of REC-994, a First-in-Disease Investigational Treatment for Symptomatic Cerebral Cavernous Malformation (CCM), has Met its Primary Endpoint of Safety and Tolerability

REC-994 also demonstrates encouraging trends in objective MRI-based exploratory efficacy measures at the highest dose and the company plans to advance development of REC-994 for the potential treatment of symptomatic CCM in subsequent studies. SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 03, 2024 (Korea Bizwire) – Recursion (NASDAQ: RXRX), a leading clinical stage TechBio company decoding biology to [...]