EU secures 400 million doses of Janssen’s COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

  Johnson & Johnson on 8 Oct 2020 announced that the European Commission (EC), acting on behalf of the Europea...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
Development of CRISPR/Cas9 method for genome editing receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 to Emmanuelle Charpentier...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
HelpMeSee launches revolutionary technology to address global cataract crisis

HelpMeSee, the not-for-profit global campaign to end cataract blindness, on 9 Oct 2020 announced a landmark achieve...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
Frost & Sullivan estimates $1.4B investment in 2020 for mental health management

Isolation and loneliness due to the COVID-19 pandemic have caused stress, anxiety, and depression, generating a signific...

October 9, 2020 | Friday | News
CEPI establishes global centralized COVID-19 vaccine candidates assessment network

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) in Norway has announced partnerships with five clinical sampl...

October 8, 2020 | Thursday | News
Transgene, NEC, BostonGene collaborate for ovarian and head & neck cancers trials

Transgene, a biotech company that designs and develops virus-based immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, a leader...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Research on thirst wins 2020 Eppendorf & Science prize

The American scientist Christopher Zimmerman, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute in Prin...

October 7, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Mercy Ships announces world's largest NGO hospital ship

US-based Mercy Ships that uses hospital ships to deliver free, world-class healthcare services, capacity building, and s...

October 6, 2020 | Tuesday | News
Hepatitis C virus discovery gets Nobel Prize 2020 in Medicine

The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medic...

October 5, 2020 | Monday | News
Healthcare consulting firm Nordic expands its reach to Europe and Asia

Nordic, a top-rated healthcare consulting firm, on 2 Oct 2020 announced its acquisition of Tasman Global, a healthc...

October 5, 2020 | Monday | News
APAC Health and Finance Ministers commit to building stronger health systems

Building on the learnings from the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic, in mid-September, Ministers of Health and Fin...

October 2, 2020 | Friday | News
GVN's virus experts to identify promising advanced strategies to battle COVID-19

The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of the world's leading medical and basic virology research centers working t...

October 1, 2020 | Thursday | News
J&J initiates global Ph 3 trial of COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Johnson & Johnson has announced the launch of its large-scale, pivotal, multi-country Phase 3 trial (ENSEMBLE) for i...

September 24, 2020 | Thursday | News
The Lancet announces editorial policy changes post HCQ episode

The publication and subsequent retraction in June, 2020, of the article 'Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) or chloroquine wi...

September 23, 2020 | Wednesday | News
Novel, agile & omnichannel approach from pharma companies can structure a futuristic healthcare system

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the traditional business models of companies. While digital transformation has been ...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | Opinion
Dr. Sven Abend appointed to the Management Board of GELITA AG

GELITA AG, the global market leader in the field of gelatine and collagen peptides, appoints Dr. Sven Abend to the Execu...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Fitbit receives regulatory clearance in US & Europe for ECG app

US-based Fitbit has recently received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), as well as...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News
Oxford vaccine AZD1222 resumes clinical trial

Oxford university and AstraZeneca are to resume the international clinical trial of their proposed coronavirus vaccine c...

September 14, 2020 | Monday | News