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BeyondSpring’s Plinabulin May Prevent Tissue Iron Overload in Anemic Cancer Patients Receiving Chronic Blood Transfusions During Chemotherapy

- New Data to be Presented at NCCN 2020 Annual Conference - BeyondSpring Inc.

March 23, 2020
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Biotech Bay

New FDA Guidance Allows Use of KardiaMobile 6L to Measure QTc in COVID-19 Patients

World’s only FDA-cleared six-lead personal ECG will be used by healthcare professionals to monitor QT duration in patients receiving medications that can cause potentially life threatening QT prolongation.

March 23, 2020
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Drug Development

Genentech Announces FDA Approval of Clinical Trial for Actemra to Treat Hospitalized Patients With Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia

Genentech announced today the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III clinical trial i

March 23, 2020
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BioMidwest

The NEXVOO® factory operates as a Healthcare Certified Factory in Xiamen, China with a direct sourcing partnership to ship FDA Certified N95 Masks

NEXVOO®, a global innovation leader in unified communications products, announces that it is assisting with the US and global pandemic by shifting resources to help with shipping FDA Certified N95 mask supplies into the US.

March 23, 2020
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Pharm Country

WebMD Daily Media Brief

WebMD is launching a new daily brief for health and medical media highlighting informative content about the coronavirus pandemic from our site. Feel free to share this content and links with your audience. https://www.webmd.com/coronavirus

March 23, 2020
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Genetown

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Gives More Than $3 Million For COVID-19 Relief Efforts

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation announced it will give more than $3 million for COVID-19 relief efforts by supporting community and nonprofit organizations in Conn., Maine, Mass. and N.H.

March 23, 2020
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BioCapital

GENETWORx Laboratories Begins Shipping Up To 150,000 COVID-19 Tests Per Month with Ability to Provide 24-Hour Turnaround Results

GENETWORx Laboratories, a Virginia-based molecular laboratory certified in fifty states, announced today that it will begin shipping at least 800 COVID-19 tests a day with the ability to increase capacity to 5,000 tests per day and up to 150,000 per month during April.

March 23, 2020
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Pharm Country

ASPCA Commits $5 Million in COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Initiative to Help Shelters and Pet Owners

ASPCA to distribute lifesaving grants to shelters and establish regional pet food distribution centers to provide emergency relief to at-risk pet owners

March 23, 2020
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Drug Development

First-of-its-kind Engineered Macrophage Cell Therapy Platform Shows Ability to Reduce Tumor Burden and Activate Anti-Tumor Immunity, Improving Overall Survival in Pre-Clinical Cancer Models

Carisma Therapeutics Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing innovative immunotherapies, today announced that Nature Biotechnology has published a study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania demonstrating Carisma’s foundational technology evaluating the potential of human chimeric antigen receptor macrophages (CAR-M) for cancer immunotherapy.

March 23, 2020
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Business

Nordic Nanovector Appoints Dr Dominic Smethurst as Interim Chief Medical Officer

Nordic Nanovector ASA (OSE: NANO) announces that Dr Dominic Smethurst has been appointed Interim Chief Medical Officer with immediate effect.

March 23, 2020
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