BioSpace News Archive

New Clinical Trial Shows Medtronic TYRX(TM) Envelope Signficantly Reduces Major Infections in Cardiac Implantable Device Patients

WRAP-IT is the Largest Randomized Global Trial Ever Conducted with Cardiac Implanted Electronic Devices

March 19, 2019
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Biotech Beach

MDxHealth (R): MDxHealth Announces Positive Data from Pan-European Clinical Validation Study of SelectMDx

SelectMDx demonstrates accurate identification of both low-risk and aggressive prostate cancer across all patient groups

March 19, 2019
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Drug Development

TLC Announces First Patient Dosed in Phase II Trial of TLC590 for Postsurgical Pain Management following Bunionectomy

TLC announced that the first patient has been dosed a Phase II clinical trial for TLC590 following bunionectomy.

March 19, 2019
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Drug Development

Esperion Announces Late-Breaking Presentation of Final Results of Bempedoic Acid Pivotal Phase 3 Study 2 at the American College of Cardiology 2019 Scientific Sessions

Over 52-Weeks, Bempedoic Acid was Observed to be Safe, Well-Tolerated, and Adverse Event Profile was Similar to that of Placebo

March 19, 2019
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Pharm Country

Amarin’s Vascepa Cuts Heart Attack and Stroke Risk by 30%

“With this drug, we are not only preventing that first heart attack, but potentially the second stroke and maybe that third fatal event,” stated Deepak Bhatt, the study’s lead investigator.

March 19, 2019
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Mark Terry
Business

Sanofi Eyes Its Next CEO as Olivier Brandicourt Nears the End of His Term

The French company has an age limit for its top official and the company is working on a succession plan in anticipation of that change.

March 19, 2019
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Alex Keown
BioForest

Report: When It Comes to Hiring PhDs, Private Sector and Academia Are About Even

For years, the biggest employers of science and engineering PhDs has been academic institutions. For example, according to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)’s biennial Survey of Doctoral Recipients, academia employed 11 percent more PhDs than the private sector in 1997.

March 19, 2019
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Mark Terry
Policy

Evidence of Satisfied Customers: labfolder Achieves Industry-leading Net Promoter Score of 59

labfolder is the first company amongst electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) and laboratory information management (LIMS) software vendors to announce its highly-ranked Net Promoter Score® (NPS®).

March 19, 2019
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Business

GeoVax Ebola Vaccine Study Published in the Atlas of Science

GeoVax Ebola Vaccine Provides Potential for 100% Protection from Single-Dose

March 19, 2019
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Medtronic Evolut Low Risk Trial Meets Primary Endpont

Less Invasive Evolut(TM) Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) System Successful in Clinical Trial When Compared to Open Heart Surgery in Healthier Aortic Stenosis Patients

March 19, 2019
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