Health
Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien: New knowledge about a cancer pharmaceutical led to the Sjöberg Prize
MALMÖ, Sweden, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Benjamin L. Ebert, USA, receives this year's Sjöberg Prize, worthone million US dollars, for his research into how lenalidomide works as a treatment for blood cancer. His discovery of the mechanism that promotes protein breakdown in cancer cells may be...
Futurise Inks Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Korea Development Institute (KDI) to Collaborate towards Knowledge Sharing and Co-research Activities
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Futurise Sdn Bhd (Futurise) today announced the cooperation and collaborative efforts with Korea Development Institute (KDI) towards promoting knowledge sharing and to pursue co-research activities on key areas of common interests. The collabo...
TCAI leader participates in clinical trial for catheter that may prevent rare, life-threatening complication during cardiac ablation
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A physician with the Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute (TCAI) at St. David's Medical Center is among the first in the world to participate in a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a new cardiac-specific catheter used during pulsed fi...
Make the Best Promise to Your Companion in 2021; Zepp Valentine's Day Videos Released
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Zepp, a professional-grade
wearable and digital health management brand, released the animated version of
Measurements of Attraction
World Federation of Neurology Launches Global Brain Health Awareness Campaign
Brain Health Initiative provides accessible information on promoting brain health LONDON, Feb. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The World Federation of Neurology is pleased to announce its launch of the Brain Health Initiative, a global campaign to promote the importance of brain health. This initiative...
Safer medical devices with Picosun's antimicrobial ALD coatings
ESPOO, Finland, Feb. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Picosun Group, the leading provider of AGILE ALD® (Atomic Layer Deposition) thin film coating technology and solutions, reports excellent aseptic properties measured from its ALD materials. Numerous ALD oxide coatings deposited with Picosun's process...
Ascletis Joins Sagimet's US$80 Million in Crossover Financing with Premium Investors
HANGZHOU, China and SHAOXING, China, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascletis Pharma Inc. (HKEX: 1672) announces today that Ascletis, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, participates in Sagimet Biosciences Inc.'sUS$80 million in crossover financing, led by an undisclosed public equity healthcare ...
LimaCorporate Receives Regulatory Approvals For Smart Space Digital Platform
SAN DANIELE DEL FRIULI, Italy, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- LimaCorporate makes important strides in the development of its digital platform designed to assist surgeons in delivering improved outcomes with an accessible and sustainable economic model, following the milestone-based acquisition of...
Global Cord Blood Corporation Announces Termination of Discussion Regarding Cordlife Merger Proposal
HONG KONG, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Cord Blood Corporation (NYSE: CO) ("GCBC" or the "Company"),China's leading provider of cord blood collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem cell processing and stem cell storage services, today announced that, in relation to the non-bindin...
Acknowledged scientific leader and Novartis veteran joins Sai Life Sciences
HYDERABAD, India, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Sai Life Sciences, one of
India's fastest growing Contract Research, Development & Manufacturing
Organizations
Ascensia Diabetes Care And Its Employees Excited To Support Spare A Rose Campaign For The Fourth Consecutive Year
BASEL, Switzerland, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Ascensia Diabetes Care, a leading global diabetes care company and the maker of the CONTOUR® range of blood glucose monitoring systems, has once again decided to support the Spare A Rose campaign, organized by Life for a Child, for the fourth cons...
Firmenich Reports Solid Half Year Results despite Pandemic
Delivering sustained revenue and free cash flow growth, while demonstrating resilient profitability. Integrating largest-ever acquisition. GENEVA, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Firmenich International SA, the world's largest privately-owned Perfume and Taste company, announced its Half Year Resu...
Zymo Research Launches COVID-19 Sequencing Service for the Detection and Surveillance of Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Rapid reporting at high throughput enables detection of potential vaccine escaping variant strains IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Zymo Research announced today theirCOVID-19 Variant Sequencing Service. This new global service expands Zymo Research's end-to-end SARS-CoV-2 solutions...
Positivity Around Vaccine Roll-Out and Future Availability Leads to Improved Perceptions on Whole Health
HONG KONG, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Cigna's (NYSE:CI) International Markets business today published the fifth edition of its COVID-19 Global Impact Study, which highlights the contrast in well-being around the world as vaccine roll-out commenced for some, while other markets anticipated vac...
First Patient Enrolled in SELUTION SLR(TM) SUCCESS PTA Study
NYON, Switzerland, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- MedAlliance has announced enrolment of the first patient in SUCCESS PTA, its large post-market study with the drug-eluting balloon SELUTION SLR™ for the treatment of patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD). SELUTION SLR is a novel sirolimus-e...
'Supercharger' to revive mainstay antibiotic in global fight against antibiotic resistance
MELBOURNE, Australia, Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperTrans Medical (STM), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibiotics that target difficult-to-treat, multi-drug resistant bacteria, has published First-In-Class, successful pre-clinical results and announced plans to begin clinica...
ICP DAS Biomedical Polymers Announces To Offer Taiwan High-Quality Medical TPU
TAIPEI, Feb, 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- ICP DAS- Biomedical Polymers ("ICP
DAS-BMP") is a medical TPU supplier inTaiwan. Today, the company officially
announced that it begins to offer its medical thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)
to the medical devices market worldwide.
Care Journey Orchestration Tackles Healthcare's Biggest Operational Challenges
This innovative approach, already used in other industries, helps health systems refactor their costs, shift to be consumer-centric, and make reimbursement predictable, finds Frost & Sullivan SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The economics of healthcare have been adversely affec...
Össur will be carbon neutral in 2021
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, Feb. 10, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Össur (Nasdaq: OSSR), a global leader in the orthotics and prosthetics (O&P) industry with a rich history of ground-breaking innovations, announced today that the company will be carbon neutral in 2021, its 50th anniversary year. Originally founde...
Abbott's Fast, Reliable and Convenient COVID-19 Tests Ramp Up Indonesia's Testing Capability
- Southeast Asia's most populous nation1 expands use of fastest available molecular point-of-care technology and an antigen rapid test device that needs just a nasal swab, to detect active coronavirus infections at massive scale - Delivering reliable results in minutes, Abbott's COVID-19 testing ...
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