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BioWorld - Tuesday, July 15, 2025
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Articles Tagged with ''COVID-19''

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Biopharma deals and M&As down slightly, but respectable showing despite pandemic

April 7, 2020
By Karen Carey
With nearly a quarter of the activity announced in March focused on COVID-19, the first quarter of 2020 appears to be on target to beat the deal and M&A values of two of the last three years, although it remains behind 2019. Despite the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, let alone the upcoming U.S. presidential election, the industry has fared relatively well in terms of dealmaking so far this year, even as the markets have plummeted and partnering events have moved to a virtual format. In fact, deals should logically increase as the pandemic takes its toll on the economy, according to a biopharma executive who responded to a recent J.P. Morgan survey.
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COVID-19 will permanently restructure health care

April 6, 2020
By Annette Boyle
Many adaptations to the coronavirus pandemic will remain standard features of health care long after the pandemic wanes, according to Brian Chapman, managing partner at ZS Associates, an Evanston, Ill.-based pharmaceutical and medical technology consultancy. In the long term, telehealth will be a clear winner as payers look to lower ongoing costs, more procedures and care will move out of hospitals, rapid diagnostics will gain importance, and government and payer coverage of infectious disease testing of all kinds will expand, he predicted.
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Despite boost to telehealth, COVID-19 taking bite out of device utilization

April 6, 2020
By Mark McCarty
The emergence of the new variety of coronavirus has had a massive effect on medical care across the globe, which has boosted telehealth coverage while suppressing non-emergency procedures. Several medical societies have published guidelines for procedures during the COVID-19 outbreak, however, which in the aggregate suggest that many procedures will be significantly delayed.
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Regulatory front for April 6, 2020

April 6, 2020
The latest global regulatory news, changes and updates affecting medical devices and technologies, including: Mimedx.
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Other news to note for April 6, 2020

April 6, 2020
Med-tech happenings, including deals and partnerships, grants, preclinical data and other news in brief: Bioivt, Bioreference Laboratories, Boston Heart Diagnostics, Carmat SA, Chandigarh University, Co-Diagnostics Inc., Deerfield Management, Itamar Medical Ltd., Luminex Corp., Mallinckrodt plc, Myriad Genetics, Inc., Nanomosaic, Nanostring, Openmed, Opko, Quotient, Safeguard Scientifics, Sano-Tek, Seaspine, Shockwave, Sleep Data Diagnostics, Synergy Laboratories, Theranica, Upscript.
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BioWorld MedTech’s Cardiology Extra for April 6, 2020

April 6, 2020
By Liz Hollis
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Patient data registry aims to give insights for care, adverse cardiovascular outcomes; Research: Medicare changes could boost TAVR access; Muscle protein serves essential role in blood clotting during heart attack.
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Izana’s namilumab joins testing for COVID-19 arsenal as data point to GM-CSF as target for severe disease

April 6, 2020
By Nuala Moran
LONDON – Izana Bioscience Ltd. has become the third company to supply an anti-GM-CSF antibody for compassionate use against COVID-19, announcing namilumab, currently in phase IIb testing in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis, will be used to treat 20 patients with severe respiratory symptoms.
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Ansun Biopharma reveals positive results for novel COVID-19 candidate

April 6, 2020
By David Ho
HONG KONG – Another promising candidate has emerged in the race to find a treatment for the COVID-19 coronavirus. San Diego-based Ansun Biopharma Inc. released positive results from a four-patient study of its DAS-181 candidate, which is being developed for the treatment of severe COVID-19 infection. 
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Ottawa recruits Canadian equipment makers in CA$2B COVID-19 battle

April 3, 2020
By David Godkin
TORONTO – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has yet to rule out following U.S. President Donald Trump’s lead by invoking his nation's wartime Defense Procurement Act compelling manufacturers to begin making ventilators to combat COVID-19. For now, Ottawa has signed contracts or letters of intent with eight equipment makers.
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3D printing community rallies to meet hospitals’ needs in pandemic

April 3, 2020
By Meg Bryant
As health care workers face critical shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE) to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, 3D printing companies, medical device manufacturers and other organizations are stepping up to produce face shields, ventilators and other needed supplies. For its part, Rehovot, Israel-based Stratasys Ltd. has assembled a coalition of more than 150 companies and universities to produce 3D-printed visors and clear plastic face shields. The coalition aims to produce up to 16,000 face shields per week by the end of next week.
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