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APRIL 11, 2024

” He released a draft legislative proposal this week, a follow up to a milestone hearing in January that sounded the alarm on long Covid as a pressing public health crisis. WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders is pushing for a long Covid “moonshot.”

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APRIL 18, 2024

This difference was statistically significant and clinically meaningful, Cerevel said in a press release Thursday. That compared to 0.6 hours of improvement among patients taking placebo and levodopa. There was also a statistically significant decrease in “off time,” the amount of time patients experienced symptoms.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Press Release | Delhi | 12th March 2023 In today’s fast-paced world, where consumers have access to multiple platforms, it is essential to create a seamless experience across all channels.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Press Release | Delhi | 20th March 2024 Event Date: March 16, 2024 Location: Radisson Blu Marol Andheri, Mumbai Time: 09:00 AM – 05:00 PM Pharma Industry Townhall 2024 – Sales & Marketing The Pharma Industry Townhall 2024, hosted by PharmaState Academy, concluded successfully, bringing together industry leaders, experts, and professionals (..)

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JANUARY 4, 2024

Contraline, a device startup that released early, positive clinical data in a press release on Thursday, hopes to fill it. Between condoms and vasectomies lies a vast, undeveloped chasm of male birth control. Investigators tested the device on 23 participants in Australia last year and recorded no serious adverse events.

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MARCH 13, 2024

government scrutiny of it and other Chinese companies, according to a BIO press release shared with STAT on Wednesday. WASHINGTON — The Biotechnology Innovation Organization, an industry trade group, is cutting ties with Chinese company WuXi in response to increasing U.S.

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MARCH 21, 2024

As of Thursday morning, the organ recipient, a 62-year-old man named Richard Slayman, was “recovering well” and expected to be discharged soon, the hospital said in a news release. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

The masks, according to a press release from the Department of Justice, were used to diagnose and treat sleep disorders. Philips agreed to pay $2.4 Philips Respironics, a subsidiary of Philips, allegedly gave out masks from 2016 to 2021.

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APRIL 27, 2023

They trumpet the technology in press releases, plaster its use on billboards, and sprinkle AI into speeches touting its ability to detect diseases earlier and make health care faster, better, and cheaper. In public, hospitals rave about artificial intelligence. Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

The data, made public in a press release, represent the first evidence of an effective individualized cancer vaccine based on mRNA, the technology used in the Covid shots. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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JULY 26, 2021

The post Digital Awards sponsor push – press release for media partners appeared first on. It currently has over 230 companies as members, including pharma and biotech companies on the industry side and PR, Advertising, Medical Communications, Digital and many other kinds of service company on the agency side.

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JUNE 22, 2023

The FDA recently issued 189 formal warning letters to shops selling two brands of vape products, Elf Bar and Esco Bars, the agency announced in a press release Thursday. The FDA has not authorized either brand, both of which are ubiquitous in gas stations and smoke shops around the country. They are therefore illegal to sell.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

The press release issued by pharmaceutical companies Eisai and Biogen on Sept. 27 might someday be remembered as the beginning of a revolution in Alzheimer’s diagnosis and treatment.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Minutes after the company issued its press release, shares in Illumina dipped from $184.49 The market’s response was swift. to below $172 during after-hours trading.

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AUGUST 18, 2020

During the first half of the year, FDA issued a record number of press releases and nearly two-thirds (64 percent) were about COVID-19. The first release related to the pandemic appeared on February 24 to inform us about what steps the agency would be taking with respect to foreign inspections.

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JULY 11, 2023

The company said in a press release that it will review whether to proceed with trying to bring the vaccine to the U.S. Takeda announced Tuesday that it has voluntarily withdrawn its application to the Food and Drug Administration for its dengue vaccine, making it unclear when or if the vaccine will be licensed in this country.

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APRIL 10, 2023

Neither company issued a press release. The deal for Crystal Run, a network of almost 400 doctors, nurse practitioners, and other clinicians, closed in late February. There was no fanfare. The deal only came to light from an email obtained by the Mid-Hudson News. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

Amgen released detailed data on Thursday suggesting an early-stage drug can induce significant weight loss in patients with obesity, with less frequent dosing than current treatments but a safety profile that remains unclear. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In its press release on the ruling, Illumina acknowledged that, although it will appeal, that may not prevent the European Commission from forcing it to divest Grail, which it purchased before regulatory approvals were in place. The worse news?

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MAY 17, 2023

In the 156-volunteer trial, the drug, sepiapterin, reduced levels of phenylalanine by 63% compared to a placebo, PTC said in a press release. The company did not release detailed results, but said that no severe adverse events occurred in the study.

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DECEMBER 6, 2022

But most of the AI models described in journals — and lionized in press releases — never make it into clinical use. It can detect cancers on images earlier, find heart issues invisible to cardiologists, and predict organ dysfunction hours before it becomes dangerous to hospitalized patients. Read the rest…

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JANUARY 5, 2023

The company has initiated a search for a new research chief, it said in a press release. Biogen announced Thursday that it will be splitting the head of R&D role into two, with Priya Singhal being named as the new head of development. Both positions will report directly to new CEO Chris Viehbacher.

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JUNE 16, 2023

If donanemab’s similar results hold up to scrutiny (the data are limited to a press release , they’ll be presented in full at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in July and in a forthcoming paper), it will likely enjoy the same decision. It’s beneficial.

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JULY 13, 2023

Vessey will become an executive partner and chief scientist at Flagship starting July 31, according to a press release. After leaving his post as the head of research at Bristol Myers Squibb, Rupert Vessey is joining venture firm Flagship Pioneering. It’s the first time the firm will have a chief scientist.

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APRIL 10, 2023

PhRMA, which is the top-spending lobbying group in the health care sector and is known to be litigious itself, still hasn’t put out a press release on the decision made by a judge in Texas on Friday — despite the possibility that the decision could destabilize the sanctity of the FDA approval process entirely.

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MARCH 28, 2023

But the results, made public in a press release, were so promising that they led investors to bid the company’s stock up 45% in early morning trading. The results are from a small, early Phase 1 study, and the drug will require much more research in studies of thousands of patients in order to establish its efficacy and safety.

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MAY 11, 2023

Reynolds is suing the state of California in an effort to keep a controversial new line of cigarettes on shelves, the company announced Thursday in a press release. WASHINGTON – Tobacco giant R.J. Reynolds launched the products in question shortly after California voters endorsed a statewide ban on menthol cigarettes.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

The company reported only the top-line figure in a press release Tuesday, and did not break out the reductions it said were seen in heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular deaths — the combined components of the study’s primary outcome.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The Generative AI Tracker is populated with examples that health systems and vendors have promoted in press releases, along with those surfaced by exclusive STAT reporting and surveys of technology vendors and leading hospitals.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The drug, called gantenerumab, slowed the rate of cognitive and functional decline compared to a placebo by 8% and 6%, respectively, — not enough to meet the primary goal of the two studies of just under 2,000 patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s, Roche said in a press release.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The company claimed in a since-deleted press release that “the total amount of our donation will be over ten thousand dollars.” Part of that program included a pledge to donate to the American Cancer Society for every person that clicked a button on Elf Bar’s website. ” Read the rest…

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

The results, issued in a press release, could pave the way for the medicine, resmetirom, to reach the U.S. market soon without waiting for the completion of a larger trial.

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JULY 13, 2023

The company in a press release said it plans to share more detailed results from the trial at an upcoming medical conference and submit the study results to regulatory authorities. The recent results put Roche in position to expand the reach of what is already a blockbuster therapy — and to stave off competition.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

Merck did not disclose detailed results in its press release, but said that the medicine resulted in a “statistically significant and clinically meaningful” increase in the distance patients could walk in six minutes.

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Pharmafile

MAY 1, 2024

Beckman Coulter Life Sciences and Watchmaker Genomics have announced that they have entered into a collaborative partnership with the aim of ‘deliver[ing] robust and reliable automated liquid handling solutions that enable labs to streamline operations and generate consistent results’, according to the press release.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Using Google’s AI Model — and its cloud infrastructure, which I’ll share more about later — could boost adoption of iCAD’s broader cancer detection services, an executive said in a press release. Read the rest…

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As media reports have highlighted, the new effort — a press release says that it was “ inspired by the success of Bell Labs” — promises to let scientists engage in research without first getting funding from NIH or other sources, as well as the option, if the results are promising, to spin off a for-profit company.

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