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Kedalion Therapeutics, | November 16, 2021

Kedalion Therapeutics is pleased to announce the completion of its Series B financing led by Novartis and involving a combination of new and existing investors. The Novartis investment includes an Exclusive Option to Acquire the company and its AcuStream™ technology. This agreement follows a Feasibility Study agreement with the AcuStream™ technology signed earlier this year. The subsequent feasibility study has been completed with successful results. Collaboration between the t...

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GoodRx | April 18, 2022

GoodRx, a leading consumer-focused digital healthcare platform announced the completion of its previously announced acquisition of vitaCare for $150 million in cash, with an additional $7 million of consideration contingent payment upon vitaCare’s financial performance through 2023. VitaCare is a pharmacy services platform that expands GoodRx’s offering to pharmaceutical manufacturers while helping to improve patient access and adherence to affordable brand drugs. The acquisition wil...

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Aquavit Pharmaceuticals, Inc | March 22, 2022

Aquavit Pharmaceuticals, Inc continues to succeed in its intellectual property cases against counterfeiters both domestically and abroad. Following a recent win against counterfeiter U-BioMed, Inc. across the European Union, the U.S. Southern District Court of New York adopted Judge Lehrburger's recommendations that any sanctions related to U-BioMed's deletion of its Instagram account, which blatantly exploited Aquavit's AQUAGOLD product illegally, be folded into the p...

GEN | April 06, 2020

An anti-parasitic drug that is available around the world stops SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus from replicating in cells within a couple of days, according to findings from in vitro studies by Monash University’s Biomedicine Discovery Institute (BDI), working with the Peter Doherty Institute of Infection and Immunity. BDI research lead Kylie Wagstaff, PhD, said the studies showed that the drug, ivermectin, started to become effective against SARS-CoV-2 in lab-grown cells within just a day. “...