Healthcare

There’s a growing demand for life sciences professionals in Massachusetts, but a new report indicates that the home-grown talent pipeline is not adequate enough to meet the growing demands in the Bay State.
The most recent figure for the China coronavirus outbreak is 28,018 confirmed cases with 563 deaths in China. Chinese health authorities indicate 19 foreigners have been infected by the virus. There are reports that a Chinese newborn is the youngest person to become infected. The infant was diagnosed 30 hours after birth, apparently having gotten it from the mother.
Founded by UKI2S with co-investment from LifeArc & Parkwalk to advance a diabetic macular edema gene therapy and other pipeline products
BryoLogyx Inc., announced that David Crockford has joined the Company as vice president of clinical development and logistics, a new position.
Hypha Discovery Limited, the leading specialist CRO for drug metabolite provision, and Cypex Limited, experts in the provision of recombinant xenobiotic metabolising enzymes, have formed a partnership wherein Hypha can scale-up and purify metabolites made by Cypex enzymes.
The spreading of the coronavirus that began in Wuhan, China has researchers and health officials worldwide studying the emerging virus and preparing to treat it and develop vaccines. With such an enormous global focus, it seems that new information about the virus and the infection is being published each day.
A new study published in Seizure gives insight into the short-term outcome of patients treated for status epilepticus in Kuopio University Hospital in Finland.
Evotec SE and Indivumed GmbH announced that the companies have entered into a new research collaboration to discover and develop first-in-class therapeutics for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.
The new entity, funded by $55 million from the BCBS businesses, was born as a response to the high costs of prescription medicines in the United States and concerns about the overall affordability of health care.
A U.K. study confirmed that the use of blood-thinning medications benefits all heart failure patients, regardless of whether or not those patients have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.
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