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Generex Biotechnology Corporation (OTCQB:GNBT) announced today that Regentys Corporation (formerly Asana Medical, Inc.), a clinical stage regenerative medicine company contracted to become a subsidiary of Generex, was granted European Patent No. 2983616 entitled “Method And Composition For Treating Inflammatory Bowel Disease Without Colectomy.”

With holiday travel around the corner and flu activity on the rise in many parts of the country, Walgreens today launched its first Flu Index™ for the 2018-2019 flu season.

Healogics, the nation’s largest provider of advanced chronic wound care services, today announced that it has appointed David Jollow to serve as Chief Information Security Officer.

Women’s Care Florida is pleased to announce that Helen M. Kuroki, MD, has been named as the company’s chief medical officer. She succeeds Donald Wilson, MD, who is retiring on January 4, 2019.

Ellume Limited (Ellume or the Company), a digital healthcare and medical diagnostics company, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with GSK Consumer healthcare, one of the world’s leading over-the-counter healthcare companies, to explore the development of digital consumer products.

Orchard Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ORTX), a leading commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with serious and life-threatening rare diseases through innovative gene therapies, and SIRION Biotech GmbH today announced the entry into a license agreement, pursuant to which Orchard has licensed SIRION’s LentiBOOST™

Approval Based on Results That Demonstrated Nplate Successfully Increased and Sustained Platelet Counts in Children Affected by Rare Blood Disorder

Prestige BioPharma (“Prestige”) announced today that it has reached a licensing agreement with Cipla Limited (“Cipla”) for its trastuzumab biosimilar (HD201) under which Cipla will have exclusive rights to distribute and market the drug in selected emerging markets.

Green Relief Inc., Canada’s leading licensed producer of medical cannabis using aquaponics as a growing method, today announced it has entered a share purchase agreement for a majority stake of Bodhi Research & Development Inc. (“Bodhi Research”).

The heart that was inadvertently left on board a Southwest Airlines plane in Seattle on Sunday, Dec. 9, made it to LifeNet Health’s Pacific Northwest facility in time to provide two potentially life-saving cardiac tissue grafts.