In collaboration with University of Heidelberg, Germany, results from a clinical study of pancreatic cancer is published in the Pancreas scientific journal. The results demonstrate that Biovica’s DiviTum assay can provide an accurate prognosis and evaluation of treatment efficacy....
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When you get sick, you want the right treatment fast. But certain infectious microbes are experts at evading the very anti-bacterial drugs designed to fight them. A simple and inexpensive new test developed by UC Berkeley researchers can diagnose patients with antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria in a matter of minutes. The technique could help doctors prescribe the right antibiotics for each infection, and could help limit the spread of antibiotic-resistant "superbugs," which kill...
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Pfizer has announced the launch of a UK-wide campaign dubbed “Don’t be catfished by counterfeit medicines”. The campaign, which is targeted specifically at students, focuses mainly on Xanax (alprazolam), aiming to raise awareness amongst young people who are increasingly buying counterfeit medicines online, unaware of the serious risks they are taking. The company says that the campaign reflects how easy it is to be fooled when purchasing these products online, and will be run ...
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In January 2018, Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and JP Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon announced they were creating a joint venture to slash healthcare costs and improve services. For more than a year, it had no name other than “ABC,” the first letters of each company’s name. Now, more than a year later, the endeavor has an official name, Haven. The three moguls formed the company with the idea of improving healthcare access and lowering ...
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AstraZeneca today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted a supplemental New Drug Application (sNDA) for the use of Tagrisso (osimertinib), a third-generation, irreversible epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) with clinical activity against central nervous system (CNS) metastases, in the 1st-line treatment of patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumours have EGFR mutations (exon 19 deletions or exon 21 ...
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Sun Pharmaceutical Industries (₹639.6) is ruling at a crucial level. The stock finds support at ₹610 and the crucial one at ₹572. A close below the latter will confirm the bearish trend....
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