Two new Ebola deaths in Congo

Singapore- Two new deaths from Ebola - including one in the provincial capital of Mbandaka - and seven new confirmed cas...

May 22, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Celgene, Evotec team up on cancer treatments

Singapore- Celgene and German biotech Evotec AG have inked a long-term strategic drug discovery and development par...

May 22, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Artificial intelligence for early cancer diagnosis

The British government has announced ambitious plans to prevent an estimated 22,000 cancer deaths by 2033, through the u...

May 22, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Omega Diagnostics develops a test for identification of advanced HIV

Scottish biotech firm Omega Diagnostics has said that it has passed a key milestone in work on developing a test for ide...

May 22, 2018 | Tuesday | News
French surgeon builds windpipes from arteries

French surgeon Emmanuel Martinod has helped people whose windpipes have been ravaged by cancer and other diseases to liv...

May 22, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Research claims childhood Leukemia likely to be preventable

One of the UK’s leading cancer scientists has suggested that most cases of childhood leukemia are likely to be pre...

May 22, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Merck to use genome editing for studying gut bacteria

Merck, a leading science and technology company and leader in genome editing, announced collaboration with Washington Un...

May 22, 2018 | Tuesday | News
AxoGen appoints Karen as Chairman of the Board

Singapore –  AxoGen, a global leader in developing and marketing innovative surgical solutions for perip...

May 21, 2018 | Monday | News
Congo begins Ebola vaccination

Singapore - With three new Ebola cases confirmed in Mbandaka, a city of about 1.5M people, Congo is beginning ...

May 21, 2018 | Monday | News
Accent Therapeutics to provide precision cancer treatments

Accent Therapeutics has been launched with $40m Series A financing for precision cancer treatments targeting RNA-modifyi...

May 21, 2018 | Monday | News
US approves first drug that prevents migraines

The first drug aimed at preventing the headaches has gained U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval. It was found tha...

May 21, 2018 | Monday | News
UK trial approves breath test for cancer detection

A new clinical trial by the Imperial College London has validated the use of their breath test as a first-line diagnosti...

May 21, 2018 | Monday | News
Minerva’s drug shows treatment effect in schizophrenia patients

 Singapore- Minerva Neurosciences, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of therapi...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
Cabometyx gets approval in Europe for first-line kidney cancer

 Singapore- The European Commission (EC) has approved commercialization partner Ipsen's marketing application for C...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
Regeneron, Sanofi's drug shows positive effect in lung cancer study

 Singapore- Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and development partner Sanofi announce positive preliminary data from a...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
UNAIDS calls for an increase in vaccine research

On HIV Vaccine Awareness Day, 18 May, UNAIDS is calling for an increase in research and investment to find an effective ...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
Dicerna’s hyperoxaluria treatment gets orphan status from FDA

 Singapore- Dicerna Pharmaceutical’s drug recently received an orphan drug status designation for i...

May 18, 2018 | Friday | News
Ligand Pharma readies $650M convertible debt offering

Singapore- Ligand Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing or acquiring technologies announced...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
Cerus receives $15M government contract

Singapore- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Res...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
FDA approves first non-opioid treatment for opioid withdrawal

Singapore- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved privately held US WorldMeds LLC's Lucemyra (lofexidine hydroch...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
ASLAN Pharma to present two posters on varlitinib at ASCO

Singapore- ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company targeting cancers that are both highly prev...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
Orgenesis, Atvio to present at the WATRM Congress

Orgenesis Inc., a manufacturer, service provider and developer of advanced cell therapies has announced that the Company...

May 17, 2018 | Thursday | News
Qventus receives $30M investment to bring AI to hospital workflows

Healthcare management tech platform Qventus has announced that it landed $30 million Series B funding in a rou...

May 16, 2018 | Wednesday | News
US researchers develop tool to improve diagnostic accuracy

A research team at the University at Buffalo (UB) in the US has developed a new protein analysis tool called IonStar whi...

May 15, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Agilent completes acquisition of Genohm

Agilent Technologies, Inc. has completed the acquisition of Lausanne, Switzerland-based Genohm, a developer of highly di...

May 15, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Organogenesis CEO joins Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Board

Organogenesis has announced that Gary S. Gillheeney, Sr., President and CEO of Organogenesis Inc., has been appointed to...

May 15, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Discngine receives €600,000 funding from Bpifrance

Discngine, a software company specialized in developing applications for life sciences research, has received funding of...

May 14, 2018 | Monday | News
Emergex Vaccines receives grant for universal flu vaccine programme

Emergex Vaccines Holding Limited (‘Emergex’), a biotechnology company pioneering a new approach to vaccine d...

May 14, 2018 | Monday | News
Eli Lilly to buy Armo BioSciences for US$1.6B

Eli Lilly and Co said on Thursday it is willing to buy Armo BioSciences Inc, for US$1.6 billion, an offer of US$50 per s...

May 11, 2018 | Friday | News
FDA says there is shortage of Mylan’s Epipen in US

U.S. regulators said on Wednesday that Mylan NV's EpiPen products are in shortage due to manufacturing delays that are c...

May 10, 2018 | Thursday | News
MRI ‘glove’ provides clear images of hand anatomy

Researchers from NYU School of Medicine have developed a glove-shaped magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detector that can...

May 9, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Openwater Prepares to Build Developer Kits

Openwater is a healthcare company that is revolutionizing and minitiarizing the way we read and write our body and brain...

May 9, 2018 | Wednesday | News
WHO starts its first Cholera vaccine campaign in Yemen

The first vaccine campaign against cholera in Yemen has been started by the World Health Organization (WHO), a year and ...

May 8, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer selects two targets under partnership with Wave

Singapore– Pfizer has selected the final two targets in a two-year-old, up-to-$911 million collaboration with...

May 8, 2018 | Tuesday | News
ASLAN prices IPO of its American depository shares

Singapore– ASLAN Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company targeting cancers that are both ...

May 7, 2018 | Monday | News
Kindred Biosciences Receives FDA Approval of Mirataz

Kindred Biosciences, Inc. a biopharmaceutical company focused on saving and improving the lives of pets, announced that ...

May 7, 2018 | Monday | News
Researchers develops a glue to fix broken bones in just 5 mins

Researchers from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, have developed an adhesive that could help ...

May 7, 2018 | Monday | News
Inspire medical systems upsizes IPO

Singapore- Inspire Medical Systems, which sells an implanted device for treating obstructive sleep apnea, raised $108 mi...

May 3, 2018 | Thursday | News
New study gives hope to fight minimal tumors

Singapore- Paradigm is pleased to announce the publication of an article titled "Performance of next-generation sequenci...

May 3, 2018 | Thursday | News
Iterum on deck for IPO of upto $92 M

Singapore- Dublin, Ireland-domiciled Iterum Therapeutics (ITRM) has filed a preliminary prospectus f...

May 3, 2018 | Thursday | News
Agilent to enhance lab informatics with acquisition of Genohm

Singapore- Agilent Technologies announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Geno...

May 3, 2018 | Thursday | News
Cellectis, Harvard’s Wyss Institute to recode the human genome

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Cellectis, a clinical-stage biopharma...

May 3, 2018 | Thursday | News
Ironwood Pharma to split into two entities

 Singapore- Ironwood Pharmaceuticals has announced that its board has authorized the separation of the company into...

May 3, 2018 | Thursday | News
Daré Bioscience in-licenses Junipter’s contraceptive ring

Singapore – Daré Bioscience, a clinical-stage, women’s biopharmaceutical company focused on wome...

April 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
Teladoc launches integrated care service

Singapore – Teladoc announces the U.S. launch of Behavioral Health Navigator, an integrated care service that...

April 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
New business chief at ImmunoGen

Singapore – ImmunoGen appoints Blaine McKee, Ph.D. as EVP and Chief Business Officer. He joins the firm from ...

April 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
Fabian Buller joins as Chief Business Officer in Neurimmune

Neurimmune, a global leader in the discovery and development of human-derived monoclonal antibodies, announced that it h...

April 26, 2018 | Thursday | News
New migraine study reveals Alder drug’s treatment benefits

 Singapore – Results from a Phase 3 clinical trial, PROMISE 1, assessing Alder BioPharmaceuticals' long-...

April 25, 2018 | Wednesday | News
FDA takes actions to restrict kids' access to e-cigs

 Singapore – In a statement from FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., a new announcement has been made...

April 25, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Groundbreaking micromedicine with Picosun's ALD solutions

 Singapore – Picosun Group, a leading industrial supplier of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) thin film coating ...

April 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
New leadership at Advaxis

Singapore – Advaxis, a late-stage biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development and commercializatio...

April 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Orexigen to be sold to Nalpropion Pharma for $75M

Singapore – Orexigen, a California-based pharmaceutical company focused on development of treatments for obesity a...

April 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Zymeworks, Celgene expand bispecific antibody partnership

Singapore - Zymeworks, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing multifunctional therapeutics, announced tha...

April 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Dr Reddy's receives EIR from USFDA for UK plant

Dr Reddy's Laboratories received an establishment inspection report (EIR) from the US health regulator after audit of it...

April 24, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Fresenius divests Sound Inpatient, pulls out of Akorn deal

Singapore – German dialysis specialist, Fresenius Medical Care has agreed to sell its controlling intere...

April 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Aaron Berg is Amarin’s new COO

 Singapore – Amarin Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the commercialization and development...

April 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Roche's Ocrevus shows long-term treatment effect for MS

 Singapore – Roche unit Genentech announces new four-year data from an open-label extension study o...

April 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Humana to acquire Curo Health Services

Singapore – Humana, TPG Capital (TPG), Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (WCAS) (collectively, the Consortium) a...

April 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Beacon transponder for lung receives FDA 510k clearance

Singapore - Varian announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its Calypso Anchored Beacon transponder....

April 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Non-invasive nerve stimulation may help with hand tremors

Singapore - People with tremors in their hands from a condition called essential tremor may find some relief from a new,...

April 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Study shows malaria in Africa is developing resistance to drugs

Singapore - Annual deaths from malaria are decreasing, but the disease is still a global health problem, with 216 millio...

April 23, 2018 | Monday | News
Novartis appoints John Tsai as Head GDD, CMO

Novartis has announced the appointment of John Tsai, M.D. as Head of Global Drug Development (GDD) and Chief Medical Off...

April 21, 2018 | Saturday | News
UCB to acquire Proximagen’s midazolam nasal spray

Singapore- Belgium based UCB announced an agreement to acquire the rights to Proximagen's Midazolam Nasal Spray (US...

April 20, 2018 | Friday | News
myAirvo significantly benefits COPD Patients

Singapore- Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Corporation Limited announced that new research has been published in the ...

April 20, 2018 | Friday | News
Axsome appoints Nick Pizzie as CFO

Singapore- Axsome Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel therapies for the management...

April 20, 2018 | Friday | News
GSK appoints Kevin Sin as SVP, Global Research Head

GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has announced the appointment of Kevin Sin as Senior Vice President and Head of Worldwide Business...

April 20, 2018 | Friday | News
P&G to acquire Merck KGaA consumer health unit

Singapore- Procter & Gamble has confirmed that it has signed a deal to acquire the Consumer Health business of ...

April 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
New commercial chief at Ra Pharma

Singapore- Ra Pharmaceuticals, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focusing on the development of next-generation...

April 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
J&J ramps up pricing for Imbruvica

Singapore- Johnson & Johnson will implement a new pricing and dosage scheme for cancer med IMBRUVICA (ibrutinib) con...

April 19, 2018 | Thursday | News
Mundipharma expands partnership with Caris Life Sciences

Mundipharma is partnering with Caris Life Sciences, a leading US biotechnology company, to provide the exclusive sales, ...

April 18, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Novartis to invest $100M for malaria elimination

Novartis has announced a five-year commitment to the fight against malaria in conjunction with the 7th Multilateral Init...

April 18, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Sartorius Stedim Biotech, PSU announce partnership

Sartorius Stedim Biotech and Penn State University (PSU) have entered into a collaborative partnership to advance multid...

April 18, 2018 | Wednesday | News
GE launches new facility for viral vector based therapeutics

GE Healthcare is launching a ready-to-run factory-in-a-box to speed up the production of viral vector based therapeutics...

April 17, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Shire offloads its oncology business for $2.4B

Shire, a leading global biotechnology company focused on rare diseases is selling its oncology business to French drugma...

April 17, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Maternal metabolic factors and early-onset puberty may be related

Singapore - In a study of more than 15,000 girls and their mothers — all Kaiser Permanente members in Norther...

April 16, 2018 | Monday | News
Major Italian sector federations showcase latest trends in healthcare

Singapore – Nine major Italian federations representing sectors from fashion to healthcare and technology, arrived...

April 16, 2018 | Monday | News
UK team develops novel skin patch for diabetes

A group of scientists at the University of Bath has created a non-invasive adhesive patch that promises the measure...

April 13, 2018 | Friday | News
Merck to accelerate global access to affordable vaccines

Merck, a leading science and technology company has announced a partnership with Oxford University’s Jenner I...

April 13, 2018 | Friday | News
Sanofi to invest in Canadian vaccine facility

Singapore- Sanofi is investing €350M (CAD $500M) to construct a new state-of-art vaccine manufacturing facilit...

April 13, 2018 | Friday | News
Mylan, Biocon to launch Adalimumab Biosimilar in EU

Mylan and Biocon have agreed to accelerate introduction of adalimumab biosimilar in Europe through Mylan’s in-lice...

April 13, 2018 | Friday | News
Boston Therapeutics poised to acquire MTA

Singapore- Boston Therapeutics inks a non-binding letter of intent with Medical Technology Associates to acqui...

April 13, 2018 | Friday | News
Abpro Therapeutics on deck for IPO

Singapore- Woburn, MA-based Abpro Therapeutics (ABP) has filed a preliminary prospectus for a $69M I...

April 13, 2018 | Friday | News
Capital raise for Vermillion

Singapore- Vermillion, a bio-analytical solutions company focused on gynecologic disease, announced that it intends to o...

April 13, 2018 | Friday | News
New study brings relief for travellers from leg swelling and jet lag

Singapore- A new peer-reviewed, published study shows that natural French maritime pine bark extract Pycnogenol is effec...

April 13, 2018 | Friday | News
Abbott initiates groundbreaking study to treat CAD

Singapore - Abbott announced the initiation of a clinical trial evaluating long-term outcomes of patients who undergo st...

April 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
GSK, Orchard therapeutics ink pact for rare disease

Singapore - GSK and Orchard Therapeutics signs a strategic agreement, under which GSK will transfer its p...

April 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
USFDA approves AI software to detect diabetic retinopathy

Singapore - Under its De Novo (no predicate product) review pathway, the FDA approves the first medical device in t...

April 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
Genesis to divest 23 nursing facilities

Singapore - Genesis HealthCare, one of the largest post-acute care providers in the United States, today announced it ha...

April 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
Alexion Pharmaceuticals to acquire Wilson Therapeutics for $855mn

  M&A deal making continues with Alexion Pharmaceuticals swapping up Wilson Therapeutics AB for USD 855 millio...

April 12, 2018 | Thursday | News
Zealand teams up with Roche on clinical trials

Singapore - Zealand Pharma and Roche’s Diabetes Care unit will partner on Phase 3 clinical trials assess...

April 11, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Inovio Pharma secures $56M in funding

Singapore - Inovio Pharmaceuticals is up 6% premarket on average volume on the heels of its announcement&...

April 11, 2018 | Wednesday | News
USFDA approves Perrigo’s OTC heartburn medicine

Singapore - Perrigo Company plc announced that it has received final approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administrati...

April 11, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Ionis Pharma, AstraZeneca to advance new drug for NASH

US-based Ionis Pharmaceuticals,  the leader in antisense therapeutics, recently announced that it has licensed IONI...

April 11, 2018 | Wednesday | News
Immunomedics appoints new CMO

Clinical Stage Company Immunomedics has announced the appointment of Robert Iannone as Head of Research & Developmen...

April 10, 2018 | Tuesday | News
Novartis to buy AveXis for $8.7B

Singapore – Switxerland- based Novartis AG has agreed to acquire Bannockburn, Illinois-based company AveXis for US...

April 9, 2018 | Monday | Company results
Amarantus reacquires three diagnostic tests

Singapore - Amarantus Bioscience Holdings has reacquired the rights to three neurology- focused diagnostic tests from Av...

April 9, 2018 | Monday | News
Inspire files for $86.25M IPO

Singapore - The Maple Grove-based company, Inspire Medical Systems, which sells its proprietary Inspire therapy for slee...

April 9, 2018 | Monday | Company results
Thermo Fisher collaborates with Ortho Clinical Diagnostics

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics, a global leader of in vitro diagnostics, has announced an international distribution and co-...

April 9, 2018 | Monday | News
New "nightmare bacteria" cannot withstand UV

Singapore- As drug-resistant pathogens continue to spread throughout the U.S., hundreds of hospitals throughout the coun...

April 7, 2018 | Saturday | News
Roche completes Flatiron Health acquisition

Singapore- Roche finalizes its $1.9B acquisition of Flatiron Health, a developer of oncology-focused electroni...

April 7, 2018 | Saturday | News

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