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Articles Tagged with ''COVID-19''

Other news to note for April 9, 2020

April 9, 2020
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Bio-Rad, Boston Scientific, Celsee, Center for Medical Interoperability, Ciox Health, Eclipse Automation, Electrocore, Glaukos, Harmontronics Automation, Labcorp, Lantheus, Markforged, Medtronic, Micron Solutions, Neurophotometrics, Nevro, No Borders, Orthofix, Phase Scientific, Quest.
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European Union map and coronavirus

EMA activates COVID-19 pandemic task force to galvanize European regulatory response

April 9, 2020
By Cormac Sheridan
DUBLIN – The EMA has activated a COVID-19 task force to coordinate and accelerate the European regulatory response to the pandemic. The task force is intended to take a lead role in shaping the development, authorization and post-approval surveillance of drugs and vaccines for treating or preventing COVID-19 infection.
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Natural killer cell
Drugs

The next pandemic: Firebreaks and host-directed therapies

April 9, 2020
By Anette Breindl
Specific therapies against a new disease take time to develop. But there are methods that can speed up that development – and in the meantime, there are ways to make do with what’s already in the cupboard.
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SARS-CoV-2 molecular diagnostic
Diagnostics

The next pandemic: Excess testing capacity essential, but cost question not yet answered

April 8, 2020
By Mark McCarty
There will be lessons learned aplenty when the COVID-19 pandemic finally breaks, including how serological and molecular testing can be used to maximum effect to corral a future pandemic. Carmen Wiley, president of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry, told BioWorld that the existing instrument types are up to the job, but that surge capacity is needed, and that it is not clear how the cost of that capacity will be handled.
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Tytohome device and mobile app

Tyto Care sees $50M in new funding round for telehealth system

April 8, 2020
By Anette Breindl
Tyto Care Ltd. nabbed $50 million in an oversubscribed round of funding the company will use to expand commercialization of its integrated telehealth platform and remote device with examination tools, which has seen a surge in demand with COVID-19. The new cash nearly doubles the New York-based company's total funding, bringing it to $105 million. Insight Partners, Olive Tree Ventures, and Qualcomm Ventures LLC led the latest round.
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Coronavirus and DNA

Genmark boosts full-year guidance as Eplex placements rise

April 8, 2020
By Liz Hollis
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Genmark Diagnostics Inc., of Carlsbad, Calif., has offered a preliminary look at its first-quarter results. And it is forecasting hopeful news, increasing its full-year guidance to a range of $112 million to $122 million. That's up from a previous prediction of $100 million to $110 million.
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Map of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan

India lifts export restrictions even as domestic demand increases

April 8, 2020
By David Ho
HONG KONG – India has lifted some restrictions on the export of its medical supplies in light of the global battle against the COVID-19 novel coronavirus. Last month, Indian authorities started restricting the export of certain active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and the formulations based on some specific APIs.
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Coronavirus, question marks

Bad info, delusions about testing fuel COVID-19 viral spiral

April 8, 2020
By Randy Osborne
Evercore ISI assembled a dozen internal specialists for a webinar to talk about COVID-19 from a variety of perspectives, with opinions aplenty on transmission route, up-and-coming treatment prospects, and problems in how testing procedures are understood – or not.
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Stem cells

FDA accepts Mesoblast’s BLA for pediatric GVHD stem cell therapy under priority review

April 8, 2020
By Tamra Sami
PERTH, Australia – Australian stem cell therapy company Mesoblast Ltd. announced that the FDA has accepted its BLA for priority review for its allogeneic mesenchymal precursor cell therapy, remestemcel-L, for children with acute steroid-refractory graft-vs.-host disease (aGVHD).
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Regulatory front for April 8, 2020

April 8, 2020
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: General Motors, Inbios International, Philips, Ventec Life Systems.
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