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BioCapital

Owens & Minor Announces Location Change for its 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Annual Meeting to be webcast in virtual-only format

April 6, 2020
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BioMidwest

Plus Therapeutics Donates Personal Protective Equipment to Scripps Health to Confront COVID-19 Pandemic

Plus Therapeutics, Inc., announced that it is donating personal protective equipment to San Diego’s Scripps Health for distribution to its front-line doctors, nurses and other health-care practitioners caring for patients affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 6, 2020
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4 min read
BioMidwest

Smile Direct Club Provides Dental Community Tools to Maintain Patient Contact During Social DistancingCompany’s leading teledentistry platform available to all dentists to keep practices open for remote care

SmileDirectClub announced it is opening its proprietary teledentistry platform to any licensed dentist or orthodontist in the United States to help them communicate with their patients while their physical offices are closed or limited to emergency procedures.

April 6, 2020
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2 min read
BioMidwest

Centene Announces New Benefits For Employees During COVID-19 Pandemic

Centene (NYSE: CNC) today announced that it is establishing a Medical Reserve Leave policy to support clinical staff who want to join a medical reserve force and serve their communities, during the COVID-19 pandemic.

April 6, 2020
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11 min read
Business

Insulet to Announce First Quarter 2020 Financial Results on May 7, 2020

Insulet Corporation today announced plans to release its financial results for the first quarter of 2020 on May 7, 2020 after the close of the financial markets. In connection with the release, management will host a conference call that day at 4:30 p.m. (Eastern Time). The lin

April 6, 2020
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Business

Ligand Provides a Corporate Update and Announces May 6th as the Date for First Quarter Earnings Call

Ligand Provides a Corporate Update and Announces May 6 th as the Date for First Quarter Earnings

April 6, 2020
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11 min read
FDA

Luminex Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization for ARIES® SARS-CoV-2 Assay to Detect Virus Responsible for COVID-19 Disease

Luminex is now able to provide SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests for both high-complexity, high-throughput reference labs and moderate complexity, sample-to-answer testing facilities

April 6, 2020
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4 min read
Business

Gritstone Oncology Announces the Appointment of Veteran Legal Executive Rahsaan Thompson as General Counsel

Gritstone Oncology, Inc. (Nasdaq: GRTS), a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing the next generation of cancer immunotherapies to fight multiple cancer types, today announced the appointment of Rahsaan W. Thompson as its executive vice president and general counsel.

April 6, 2020
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4 min read
Biotech Bay

Halo Labs Raises $12M in Series B1 Financing Round and Enters into the FDA Market

Halo Labs, a life science instrumentation company developing tools for biologics researchers, today announced it has closed a $12M Series B1 financing round led by Research Corporation Technologies (RCT).

April 6, 2020
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Business

Rite Aid to Release Fourth Quarter Results on April 16

Rite Aid Corporation said that it will release financial results for its Fiscal 2020 Fourth Quarter, which ended February 29, 2020, on Thursday, April 16, 2020.

April 6, 2020
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