BioSpace News Archive

In honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Dippin’ Dots and Doc Popcorn are teaming up again this year to raise money for Susan G. Komen®. Throughout the month of October, all Doc Popcorn and co-branded Dippin’ Dots and Doc Popcorn franchise locations will collect donations in-store to help support Komen’s fight to save lives from breast cancer.

Brand Buddha announced that Chief Strategy Officer, Will Gould, will speak at the 2018 American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Conference October 16-20, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California.

Survey results released today from the inaugural Clover Health Flu Shot Monitor reveal that only 63% of U.S. seniors age 60 and older plan to get a flu shot this season, prompting the Medicare Advantage insurer to implore all Americans to take the threat of the virus more seriously and get vaccinated before the end of October.

he Medical Device Innovation Consortium today released a report encouraging the adoption of coordinated vulnerability disclosure (CVD) policies by medical device manufacturers (MDMs) in an effort to promote medical device cybersecurity and patient safety.

The SCOUT® Radar Breast Localization System was featured as the 2018 cutting edge technology for breast cancer patients as Good Morning America kicked off Breast Cancer Awareness Month. SCOUT, a non-radioactive, wire-free option for tumor and lymph node localization is available at over 350 hospitals across the United States and those numbers are growing.

Twelve-Month Outcomes Data Presented by Dr. John Chi.

The Melanoma Research Alliance (MRA), the largest non-profit funder of melanoma research worldwide, congratulated Dr. James P. Allison, of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, for his award as one of two recipients of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for his pioneering work in immunotherapy that has transformed the way melanoma and many other cancers are now treated.

Virion Therapeutics, LLC today announced the appointment of its inaugural Board of Directors and Scientific Advisory Board.

The cleaning products industry has a direct impact on the U.S. economy totaling $59.1 billion, supporting 64,000 jobs and including $8.3 billion of labor compensation, according to a new report released by the American Cleaning Institute (ACI).

The threat of cyber attacks is no longer theoretical.