World Health Organization

306 articles with World Health Organization

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  Leading Scientists Call for a Moratorium on Specific Types of CRISPR Editing

  3/14/2019

  In the wake of the scandal caused by a Chinese researcher’s use of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to alter the DNA of embryos for seven couples, leading scientists called for a moratorium on heritable genome editing.
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  WHO Plans to Develop Oversight Standards for Gene Editing Following Chinese Researcher’s Experiment

  2/15/2019

  Following international concern and outrage over a gene editing treatment of human embryos in China, the World Health Organization is taking action.
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  AbbVie’s Mavyret Demonstrates Sky-High Cure Rates in Hepatitis C

  11/14/2018

  Chicago-based AbbVie just announced new data for its Mavyret (glecaprevir/pibrentasvir), a pan-genotypic treatment for chronic HCV in treatment-naive patients with compensated cirrhosis.
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  As Deadliest Strain Ravages Country, Four Experimental Ebola Vaccines to Be Deployed in the Congo

  11/12/2018

  As an outbreak of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo worsens, a team of health officials has taken four experimental vaccines to the front lines and begun to administer it to patients who may have been exposed to the deadly virus.
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  Promising Early-Stage Results for Novel Malaria Therapeutics

  10/3/2018

  Two antimalarial strategies have been published from Imperial College London in the past month: new compounds that prevent the malaria parasite from infecting mosquitoes and gene-edited mosquitoes that cannot reproduce, leading to population destruction.

• Temptime Unveils New Technology to Support Global Health Organizations with Medical Product Safety

  9/17/2018

  Temptime Corporation unveiled new technology today that will expand the range and flexibility of the company's Vaccine Vial Monitors (VVMs), which monitor the temperature exposure of vaccines to ensure that they have not been compromised by excessive heat.

• ACG Inspection Partners with Verinetics to Further Strengthen Their Fight Against Falsified Medicines

  8/7/2018

  ACG Inspection (ACGI) has partnered with CertiRx Corporation, d.b.a. “Verinetics” for further enhancing its Traceability and Authenticity solutions in the Track and Trace industry.

• The World Health Organization Recognizes New Antifungal Class by Granting "ibrexafungerp" to SCYNEXIS as the International Non-Proprietary Name for SCY-078

  7/18/2018

  New WHO INN stem "-fungerp" signifies a novel class of antifungals Novel generic name highlights the unique attributes of SCY-078 and its potential to address significant unmet needs across multiple indications

• Novel xCELLigence Study of Acinetobacter baumannii Biofilms Receives Award

  7/17/2018

  By using the xCELLigence instrument to monitor the attachment and growth of Acinetobacter baumannii in real-time, University of South Florida graduate student Jessie Adams has discovered key genes/proteins that enable this pathogen to persist in the surface-attached biofilm state.

• Agile Sciences-Breaking the Cycle of Antibiotic Resistance

  6/18/2018

  Agile Sciences has developed a proprietary portfolio of small molecules of the 2-Aminoamidazole family (2-AI) that breaks the cycle of antibiotic resistance through a novel mode of action.

• Research from Columbia Business School Measures Impact of New Cancer Drugs, Finds Most Significant Reduction in Mortality Rates 5-10 Years After Launch

  4/26/2018

  Biopharmaceutical companies around the globe are increasing investment in and production of innovative cancer drug treatments.

• CannaO2 Partners with Haystack Caps to Launch World's First Pocket-sized CBD-infused Oxygen Canister

  4/10/2018

  Similar to an asthma inhaler, the new CBD-infused oxygen canister is tasteless, smokeless, and odorless

• World Health Organization Director-General to Deliver Keynote at Patient Safety Summit

  2/1/2018

  Global leaders, patient safety experts, hospital and medical technology CEOs and patient advocates will gather to address the challenges that cause medical errors and preventable deaths in hospitals worldwide at the 6th Annual World Patient Safety, Science & Technology Summit in London on February 23-25, 2018.

• Sinovac Biotech Receives Positive Decision on its Hepatitis A Vaccine From WHO

  12/27/2017

  Sinovac Biotech announced today that it has received a positive decision from the WHO on the acceptability, in principle, of its Healive, a hepatitis A vaccine product, for purchase by United Nations agencies.

• West Pharmaceutical Services, WHO Release: Study Demonstrates Benefit Of West's ID Adapter For Improving Intradermal Administration Of Polio Vaccine

  10/10/2017

• Inventiva’s IVA337 Given Generic Name "Lanifibranor" By WHO

  9/19/2017

• WHO Africa And IFPA Advocates For Psoriasis

  9/1/2017

• Mylan Receives WHO Prequalification for Generic Sovaldi

  7/26/2017

• Eli Lilly New Report Reveals Little Progress On 2014 WHO Psoriasis Recommendations

  4/19/2017

• Eli Lilly: New Report Reveals Little Progress On 2014 WHO Psoriasis Recommendations

  4/4/2017