LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Medgenics (AIM:MEDG) (AIM:MEDU) is pleased to announce that one of the patients, who was treated with the Company’s EPODURE tissue Biopumps almost 11 months ago, continues to be effectively treated for anemia without a single erythropoietin (EPO) injection. This patient (#2) was dependent on frequent injections of the therapeutic protein (EPO) for the 18 months prior to receiving a single administration of 3 tiny EPODURE tissue Biopumps in the Company’s phase I/II anemia trial in Israel. He has now gone a full year since his last EPO injection, while his hemoglobin level has been continuously maintained within the target range of 10-12 g/dl for this period. By contrast, conventional anemia treatment by EPO injections must be repeated up to 3 times every week to provide sustained treatment. To the best of the Directors’ knowledge, nothing approaching EPODURE’s length of sustained anemia relief in patients has been shown from a single treatment of any other kind.
