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May 06, 2021

Pfizer suffers a DMD delay and halts BCMA trials amid safety woes  Pfizer has paused after seeing three cases of peripheral neuropathy in an early-stage study, enrollment in a critical analysis of its anti-BCMA bispecific antibody. Big Pharma shares news with details of delays to the start of the US part of...

May 05, 2021

Osteoporosis is a significant health burden worldwide and associated with pain and decreased physical, social, and mental well-being. The affected person experiences prolonged immobilisation and limited daily activities, which deteriorates the quality of life. At the economic level, fractures due to osteoporosis re...

May 04, 2021

Zimmer Biomet Receives FDA Approval for its Rosa System On 20 April 2021, Zimmer Biomet received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Rosa Partial Knee system for robotically-assisted partial knee replacement surgeries. This is the new edition to Zimmer Biomet's Rosa Robotics platform, which comprises the Rosa Knee syst...

May 03, 2021

Pondering over the future of healthcare, a trip to a hospital does not seem to fit in the picture now. The emergence of advanced technologies, advantages of using AI in healthcare, increasing per capita income of people, adaptation to an online and on-demand world, increase in the prevalence of chronic disease pati...

Oct 10, 2024

Over the past decades, there has been an eruption in understanding treatment strategies of gliomas with the development of clinical immunotherapy, providing exceptional success in employing checkpoint inhibitors and cancer vaccines as treatment options that have given significant momentum to the growth of the GBM m...

Apr 29, 2021

Arch Oncology scores USD 105 Million for anti-CD47 med in solid tumors, multiple myeloma Arch Oncology scored USD 105 million from new and old backers to expand the drug’s journey through the clinic and into new trials, having moved its anti-CD47 antibody into a phase 1/2 study.  Arch tests the drug alon...

Apr 28, 2021

Diabetes today is a significant health issue for many countries worldwide. As per the WHO, “the number of people with diabetes rose from 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. The increasing prevalence has been observed to rise more rapidly in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries”. Si...

Apr 27, 2021

Ocugen-Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin Shows Efficacy Against B.1.617 Variant With the COVID-19 cases exponentially increasing, there is a worrisome climate all over the world. Physicians, doctors, researchers, the whole healthcare and pharmaceutical industry are at their toes fighting the second wave of the coronaviru...

Apr 26, 2021

Cold can make anyone cheerless and miserable, however, having Sinusitis is another story. Also known as rhinosinusitis, Sinusitis makes a person suffer from a stuffy nose, blocked nasal passages, congestion, throbbing pain in eyes, forehead, and cheeks, exhaustion and excess mucous leading to full-blown cold for we...

Apr 23, 2021

The introduction of antibiotics subsequently transformed the healthcare industry bringing on the table several life-saving drugs. Long 60 years back, when the first antibiotic, Penicillin, came into existence, a new era of medicine with the potential to cope up with bacterial infections began.  However, the...