Health

Merck Builds on Leadership in Head and Neck Cancer Through Worldwide Licensing Agreement with Debiopharm for Pivotal-Stage Xevinapant

- Xevinapant is the first Inhibitor of Apoptosis Proteins antagonist with FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for previously untreated locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, in combination with current standard of care - A Phase II trial reported that xevinapant plus che...

2021-03-01 18:48 2501

TVM Capital Healthcare Exits Cambridge Medical and Rehabilitation Center for US$ 232 Million, a 4.6x Return on Capital Invested

SINGAPORE, March 1, 2021  /PRNewswire/ -- TVM Capital Healthcare, a global specialist healthcare private equity firm operating in emerging markets, announces the successful sale of its portfolio company Cambridge Medical and Rehabilitation Center ("CMRC") to UAE-based publicly traded investment c...

2021-03-01 16:18 3074

Avalon SteriTech and SoftBank Robotics Group Launch New Joint Venture to Develop and Promote Innovative Public Healthcare and Hygiene Solutions

HONG KONG, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Avalon SteriTech Limited ("Avalon") and SoftBank Robotics Group ("SBRG") today announced a joint venture focusing on the development of innovative products and technologies that strive to empower and benefit public health and well-being. The joint venture ...

2021-03-01 13:00 1845

Everest Medicines Announces Selection as a Constituent of Certain Indexes of Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited

SHANGHAI, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Everest Medicines (HKEX 1952.HK), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing transformative pharmaceutical products that address critical unmet medical needs for patients inGreater China and other parts of Asia, today announced t...

2021-03-01 12:36 4553

Sciwind's Investigational New Drug Approved for NASH Trial

HANGZHOU, China, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Hangzhou Sciwind Biosciences Co., Ltd., (Sciwind), a clinical-stage, fast-growing biotech focusing on research and development of innovative biologics, today announced that XW003, a potential candidate for the treatment of non-alcoholic steatohepatit...

2021-03-01 09:00 2638

Innovent Announces First Patient Outside China Dosed in the Phase 1 Clinical Trial of Anti-CD47/PD-L1 Bispecific Antibody

SAN FRANCISCO and SUZHOU, China, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovent Biologics, Inc. ("Innovent") (HKEX: 01801), a world-class biopharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and commercializes high quality medicines for the treatment of oncology, metabolic, autoimmune and other major di...

2021-03-01 08:23 6118

Antengene (6996.HK) Selected as a Constituent Stock of Nine Benchmark and Thematic Indexes Including the Hang Seng Composite Index

SHANGHAI and HONG KONG, March 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene", SEHK: 6996.HK), a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing global first-in-class and/or best-in-class therapeutics in hematology and oncol...

2021-03-01 08:00 2686

Antengene (6996.HK) Selected as a Constituent Stock of Nine Benchmark and Thematic Indexes Including the Hang Seng Composite Index

SHANGHAI and HONG KONG, Feb. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Antengene Corporation Limited ("Antengene", SEHK: 6996.HK), a leading innovative biopharmaceutical company dedicated to discovering, developing and commercializing global first-in-class and/or best-in-class therapeutics in hematology and oncol...

2021-03-01 08:00 5860

Sirtex Medical receives positive recommendation from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) using SIR-Spheres®

NICE recommends SIR-Spheres® Y-90 microspheres as an option for treating unresectable advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in adults WOBURN, Mass., Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirtex Medical US Holdings, Inc. ("Sirtex"), a leading manufacturer of targeted cancer therapies, received positive...

2021-02-26 23:37 2748

Klöckner Pentaplast Launches Its New Sustainability Strategy

LONDON, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Klöckner Pentaplast (kp or the company), a leading global manufacturer of high barrier protective packaging solutions with industry-leading use of recycled content, today announced the launch of its new sustainability strategy,'Investing in Better'. This foll...

2021-02-26 23:35 3397

LISCure Biosciences Successfully Raises $21 million in Series B Funding

SEOUL, South Korea, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 25th, 2021, LISCure Biosciences Inc., a biotech company that focuses on developing bacteria-mediated immunotherapy, announced that it has successfully completed $21 million of a Series B funding round. Participants include institutional...

2021-02-26 22:00 3278

Alterity to present at the 7th International Congress of Multiple System Atrophy

MELBOURNE, Australia and SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Alterity Therapeutics Limited (ASX: ATH, NASDAQ: ATHE) ("Alterity" or "the Company"), will present at the upcoming 7th International Congress of Multiple System Atrophy (MSA2021), to be held in a virtual format fromFebruary 26-...

2021-02-26 20:45 6214

Debiopharm And Genome & Company Join Forces To Create New Highly Specific Therapies For Cancer Patients

Korean and Swiss based companies leverage their oncology expertise to initiate a research collaboration to formulate novel antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) candidates LAUSANNE, Switzerland and SEONGNAM-SI GYEONGGI-DO, South Korea, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Genome & Company (CEO:Jisoo Pae, Hanso...

2021-02-26 19:14 3547

Address ageism in health care and focus on preventative health, says peak university body.

ADELAIDE, Australia, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ageism is contributing to premature institutionalisation, ill health, and less emphasis on extending independent living for older people and we need to take urgent action, claims the peak body for allied health educators. The comments come as ...

2021-02-26 16:59 1958

Tigermed Supported and Delivered Clinical Study of CanSino COVID-19 Vaccine as Clinical Contract Research Organization

HANGZHOU, China, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) announced onFebruary 25 to grant conditional marketing authorization of Recombinant COVID-19 Vaccine (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector) (the "Ad5-nCoV", trade name: Convidecia™). CanSino Biologics Inc. an...

2021-02-26 16:36 5175

Vela Diagnostics adds two SARS-CoV-2 assays for virus genotyping, and variant identification to its COVID-19 testing solutions

SINGAPORE, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Vela Diagnostics announced that it has added ViroKey™ SQ FLEX SARS-CoV-2 Genotyping Assay and ViroKey™ SARS-CoV-2 ID RT-PCR Test to its portfolio offering. The ViroKey™ SQ FLEX SARS-CoV-2 Genotyping Assay (RUO) harnesses next-generation sequencing (NGS) t...

2021-02-26 16:00 1982

Kyushu University Confirms HORIUCHI L-FUCOIDAN Inhibits Binding between ACE2 and Virus Spike Protein (Derived from COVID-19)

KURUME, Japan, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- FCC Horiuchi Co., Ltd. based in Kurume City,Fukuoka Prefecture, western Japan, has conducted an experiment in inhibiting binding between ACE2 and virus spike protein using HORIUCHI L-FUCOIDAN, manufactured by the company, in collaboration with a gradua...

2021-02-26 15:00 3276

Malaysia's Nanovon(TM) makes headway into Qatar, Russia, & Central Asia

PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Voneco's Nanovon™️, a scientifically-substantiated self disinfectant nano-coating hosted a strategic presentation to the Russian, Qatari, & Central Asian ambassadors inMalaysia. The session, conducted with strict social-distancing SOPs, was offic...

2021-02-26 12:52 1882

Harbour BioMed Announces NMPA Approval of IND for Combination Therapy of Next Gen Anti-CTLA-4 Antibody for Treatment of NSCLC and Solid Tumors

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. and ROTTERDAM, Netherlands and SUZHOU, China, Feb. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Harbour BioMed (HBM) (HKEX: 02142) today announced that the China National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved its Investigational New Drug (IND) application for HBM4003, the next generati...

2021-02-26 10:16 6906

ARANZ Medical's Silhouette® system becomes a national platform for wound telehealth assessments

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand, Feb. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The US Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) is establishingARANZ Medical's Silhouette solution as a VA national platform, enabling more VA Medical Centers to utilize Silhouette in their wound telehealth programs.

2021-02-26 09:39 1462
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