Obesity today is a global crisis; the number of cases is on a continuous rise. As per the WHO,  “during the years 1975 to 2016, the prevalence of overweight or obese children and adolescents aged 5–19 years increased more than four-fold from 4% to 18% globally”. In 2016, more than 1.9 billion adults, 18 years ...

Caused by bacteria, viruses, and parasites, Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a global health burden and it seems they are likely to maintain their status of being so in coming years also, primarily due to the lack of knowledge, and awareness. Further, diagnostics and screening, poverty, the stigma associate...

Prostate Cancer Market Size is Expected to Increase with a CAGR of 8.1% in the 7MM for the study period of 2017-30 owing to rich Pipeline, Increasing Awareness and Better Treatment Options. A malignancy of prostate glands, Prostate Cancer, develops slowly and remains confined to prostate glands, however, can inv...

Moderna Therapeutics has announced the positive results of trials of its COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273.   The results of interim Phase I clinical trial showed promising outcomes in terms of efficacy and tolerability and potential of mRNA-1273 against COVID-19. The company received the funds for conductin...

Novartis signs USD 2.1Billion for Endocyte acquisition Novartis has inked USD 2.1 billion agreement to takeover Endocyte. Endocyte, a biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Indiana, licensed the cancer drug that catches Novartis’ eye for USD 12 million. Endocyte was in the stagnation when it held its recovery h...

Rice University researchers tested CRISPR to cure sickle cell, now preparing for upcoming challenges A team of Researchers led by Rice University has recently tested CRISPR to correct the sickle cell mutation in up to 40% of the total stem cell samples taken from affected patients. Although the results are quite pro...