Apricus Health | November 04, 2020
Apricus Health, an innovative healthcare company delivering high impact, relationship-based care, today announced two new partnerships that provide its members with extraordinary services. Medicare Advantage plan provider Devoted Health and full-service retail pharmacy Liton Rx are now partnering with the Apricus Health Network which is designed by Arizona physicians. "We are committed to helping our members with a range of quality services to improve health outcomes and significantly lower costs for patients and payers," said Dr. Kishlay Anand, CEO and co-founder of Apricus Health. "Our new partnerships with Devoted Health and Liton Rx, further that mission, with both organizations sharing our core value of emphasizing extraordinary customer service."
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JelikaLite Corp | January 07, 2022
JelikaLite Corp, a medical technology company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted the Breakthrough Device Designation to its Cognilum System for the reduction of symptoms of moderate to severe autism spectrum disorder in pediatric patients who are 2 to 6 years of age.
The FDA’s Breakthrough Device Program recognizes medical devices that meet the criteria and hold the potential for more effective treatment or diagnosis of life-threatening or irreversibly debilitating human disease or condition. Data from a pilot study suggests that Cognilum, a wearable medical device, can significantly improve the symptoms of children living with autism. If approved, it will offer families access to a home-based, easy-to-use, and cost-effective treatment for children with autism not available anywhere else.
Autism is a serious developmental disorder that impacts families around the globe. JelikaLite Corp. believes that it can provide relief to patients and families by reducing children's autism symptoms. Children will be able to better integrate into the society and have more fulfilling lives. Their caregivers can lead less stressful lives and both insurance companies and the government will be able to spend less money on effective intervention, special education and lifelong residential care.
The Breakthrough Device Designation for Cognilum was based on the results of a double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trial of 30 pediatric patients with moderate to severe autism. The trial showed both safety and efficacy of this technology. By combining non-invasive brain stimulation with near-infrared light, EEG sensors, and AI personalization platform, Cognilum demonstrated improvements in autism symptoms through gains in communication and daily living skills.
"We are thrilled that the FDA recognizes that we are developing a novel technology with a potential to change the landscape in the current approach to Autism. For some of the participants in our active condition, the positive change was so dramatic that their parents expressed their desire to continue the treatment even after the study was over. We recognize that Autism is a spectrum, and no two children are alike; our ultimate goal is to develop a personalized approach to every child based on their unique needs and challenges.”
Dr. Eugenia Steingold, Chief Science Officer of JelikaLite
JelikaLite’s vision is to bring Cognilum into the homes of families raising children with autism around the globe. This device is truly unique as it seeks to offer a personalized treatment for each child with an integrated feedback loop for both caregivers and doctors.
About JelikaLite
Based in New York, JelikaLite was launched in 2019 to develop Cognilum™, an innovative solution to permanently reduce children's autism symptoms, enabling better integration into society and reducing lifelong costs. Cognilum™ is a data-device integrated system, where a wearable non-invasive therapeutic medical device that provides neurostimulation treatment is combined with an AI personalization platform.
JelikaLite has been founded and run by a multidisciplinary team, with experts in autism clinical therapy, transcranial photobiomodulation, commercialization of medical devices, artificial intelligence, product management, and finance.
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Pfizer | December 21, 2020
Since the time Pfizer was fixed to partake in the U.S. government's Warp Speed exertion to get COVID-19 antibodies to showcase, the organization has made it very clear it didn't have to take any bureaucratic cash to build up the immunization.
In any case, did that refusal of R&D subsidizing add to Pfizer's failure to produce more dosages of its mRNA antibody for the U.S. market?
Pfizer could give more than the 100 million portions it guaranteed in its unique agreement with the U.S. government in the main portion of one year from now—however just if Trump organization authorities request that providers of crude materials rapidly satisfy the organization's requests. Furthermore, CEO Albert Bourla, Ph.D., is approaching the public authority to utilize the Defense Production Act to do precisely that.
The Trump organization hasn't done as such yet on the grounds that they've zeroed in on giving those materials to antibody producers that took government R&D subsidizing, as Moderna, as indicated by anonymous sources who addressed The New York Times.
A representative for Pfizer declined to remark, refering to the privacy of conversations with the U.S. government. Yet, Bourla said during a CNBC meet that the organization is in exchanges to sell an extra 100 million dosages of Pfizer's COVID-19 immunization to the U.S. government.
"We can give a ton of that in the second from last quarter. The U.S. government needs it in the subsequent quarter," Bourla said in the Monday meet. "We are working cooperatively to attempt to discover an answer and have the option to apportion those 100 million [doses] in the subsequent quarter if conceivable, or a ton of them."
Pfizer mentioned almost immediately that the public authority grant it "supported status" with providers of crude materials, however authorities were anxious about the possibility that that would harm contending immunization programs that took government R&D cash, as per the Times report. Among those organizations is Moderna, which is required to win crisis use approval from the FDA for its mRNA immunization this week—and last Friday, inked an arrangement to add 100 million additional portions to its underlying U.S. request.
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