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COVID-19 Test Availability Rapidly Scales Up

March 31, 2020

Industry Rallies To Boost Production WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) today released the following statements by Scott Whitaker, AdvaMed president and CEO, and Susan Van Meter, executive director of AdvaMedDx, regarding the medtech industry’s ongoing response to the coronavirus pandemic: “Within just the last few weeks, 17 diagnostics companies have received FDA Emergency…

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force

March 30, 2020

The Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force is executing a whole-of-America approach to address limited supply of critical protective and life-saving equipment.  Through a four-prong approach of Preservation, Acceleration, Expansion and Allocation, FEMA is bringing the full capacity of the Federal government to bear to find solutions to protect the American people and defeat COVID-19.  Locating…

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Evox Therapeutics Receives up to €800M from Takeda To Tackle Rare Diseases

March 27, 2020

The Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda has struck a deal worth up to €803M with UK biotech Evox Therapeutics to develop rare disease treatments delivered to cells via nanocapsules called exosomes. As part of the deal, Evox will use its proprietary technology platform to modify and load RNA and protein drugs into exosomes and target the…

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GEORGIA STATE SCIENTISTS ARE JOINING THE RACE TO UNRAVEL HOW THE NEW CORONAVIRUS OPERATES — AND FIND EFFECTIVE TREATMENTS.

March 27, 2020

Schools closed. Workers logging in remotely. Streets empty. Businesses shuttered. The coronavirus pandemic is upending daily life throughout the world, and one of the biggest unknowns is “for how long?” The answer to that question depends on a number of factors, including how quickly scientists can learn more about how the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2,…

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FDA Grants VERO Biotech Expanded Access Emergency Use for the Treatment of Patients with COVID-19, with the GENOSYL® DS, the First and Only FDA-Approved Tankless System for the Delivery of Inhaled Nitric Oxide

March 26, 2020

The recently FDA-approved GENOSYL® inhaled nitric oxide may have pulmonary and antiviral benefits in treating pulmonary hypertension and acute infectious diseases associated with the novel coronavirus1  GENOSYL® DS facilitates outpatient use of inhaled nitric oxide in the treatment of cardiopulmonary symptoms associated with COVID-19 Read original article here. March 26, 2020 – VERO Biotech LLC, an Atlanta,…

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NIH, CDC to See Funding Boosts in Stimulus Bill

March 25, 2020

NIH is slated to receive an additional $945 million to combat Covid-19 under the Senate’s economic relief package, bringing the agency’s total influx of coronavirus money to nearly $1.8 billion. The Senate is aiming to vote Wednesday on the spending plan, after reaching a deal with the White House. It’s the third coronavirus response legislation, and…

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