Hetero

The Globe and Mail | February 05, 2020

Merck & Co Inc said on Wednesday it will spin off its women’s health, biosimilar drugs and older products into a separate publicly traded company as it tightens its focus on growth drivers like cancer drug Keytruda and vaccines. The new company’s assets currently make up around 15 per cent of Merck’s total sales and around half of its drugs that treat people. Merck will retain its animal health business, as well as drugs used for acute care in hospitals such as Bridion, whi...

Amarin spurns | August 05, 2020

Amarin's wild 2020 ride continues. Tuesday, the company said COVID-19 took a bite out of second quarter earnings, and it unveiled plans to launch its fish-oil derivative drug Vascepa in Europe without help from a bigger marketing partner. And that's on top of prepping for federal court this fall, where it will try to salvage Vascepa's key patents. Amarin positioned its European plans as a positive: It did receive multiple proposals from potential partners. But the significant sales o...

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MEDITECH | June 15, 2022

MEDITECH announced that it has received the 2021 Google Cloud Industry Solution Partner of the Year award for Healthcare. MEDITECH was recognized for its achievements in the Google Cloud ecosystem, helping joint customers to develop systems that complement their EHR with scalable, secure data storage and access. Built to harness Google Cloud for patient data storage and access, provider mobility, and organizational efficiency, MEDITECH Expanse encompasses a growing ...

Intravacc | September 08, 2020

Intravacc, a global leader in translational research and development of viral and bacterial vaccines, today announced that it has been awarded a contract with base and options that may total US$9.4 million from the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), for the development of a prophylactic vaccine against enterovirus D68 (EV D68). EV D68 is a respiratory virus that can cause childhood paralysis, Acute Flaccid Myelitis (...