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AbbVie Teams Up with Hidradenitis Suppurativa Patients Around the World to Raise Awareness About the Disease

AbbVie announced the launch of Voices of HS Unite, a global social media effort to connect and inspire those impacted by hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a painful, chronic, inflammatory skin disease.

June 4, 2018
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3 min read
Pharm Country

Legal, Medical and Recreational Cannabis Product Sales Projected to Increase

- According to data provided by Energias Market Research, the global medical cannabis market is expected to grow significantly from USD 8.28 billion in 2017 to USD 28.07 billion in 2024, at a CAGR of 19.1% from 2018 to 2024.

June 4, 2018
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11 min read
Business

INSIGHTEC’s MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound Treatment for Essential Tremor Now Covered by Medicare

INSIGHTEC(R) announced that Medicare benefit coverage is available to patients in 10 U.S. states for MR-guided focused ultrasound (MRgFUS) for the treatment of essential tremor (ET).

June 4, 2018
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4 min read
Business

CytRx Corporation Launches Centurion BioPharma Corporation to Advance LADR™ Albumin Binding Ultra-High Potency Oncology Drug Candidates

CytRx Corporation announced the formation and launch of Centurion BioPharma Corporation.

June 4, 2018
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4 min read
Policy

Denovo Biopharma Acquires Exclusive License of Novel Application of DB102 in the Treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Denovo Biopharma LLC announced it has entered into an exclusive global license agreement with the Stanford University School of Medicine that will enable Denovo to develop and commercialize its lead compound, enzastaurin (DB102).

June 4, 2018
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3 min read
Biotech Beach

Mass Spectrometer System Offers Solution for Small Molecule Identification and Characterization

Scientists can now use a powerful new system to automatically capture as much spectral information about small molecules as possible and efficiently translate this into confident identification of chemical compounds.

June 4, 2018
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3 min read
Biotech Beach

New Ultra-High Mass Range Mass Spectrometer Provides Solution for Analysis of Proteins and Protein Complexes

Structural biologists and biopharmaceutical scientists now have access to an ultra-high mass range (UHMR) mass spectrometer (MS) that can be used to perform high quality native MS and top-down analyses and can provide novel insights into protein structure and protein-protein interactions.

June 4, 2018
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3 min read
Pharm Country

The MDS Foundation Announces First-Ever 5K MDS Awareness Walk in Boston

On July 20th, the MDS Foundation will hold its inaugural 5K walk in Boston, Mass. to help raise awareness about Myelodysplastic Syndromes (MDS),.

June 4, 2018
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3 min read
Genetown

GNS Healthcare and Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Present Results of Causal Modeling that Identifies Clinical and Molecular Drivers of Survival in Colorectal Cancer Patients

Results presented at ASCO 2018 Annual Meeting in Chicago show drivers at baseline allow better risk stratification at initiation of treatment

June 4, 2018
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4 min read
Business

Enzyvant Expands Executive Leadership Team with Appointments of Alan Kimura as Chief Medical Officer and Tamara Joseph as General Counsel

Enzyvant nannounced the appointments of Alan Kimura, MD, PhD as Chief Medical Officer and Tamara Joseph, JD, LLM as General Counsel.

June 4, 2018
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2 min read