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Covid-19 Data Will Once Again Be Collected by CDC, in Policy Reversal
Hospitals will return to reporting new cases to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Trump administration says, after shift to Health and Human Services led to delays and data problems The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is reversing course on a change to the way hospitals report critical information on the coronavirus pandemic…
Read MoreMorehouse College receives $9 million grant to boost STEM subjects
One of Atlanta’s most prominent Historically black colleges received another funding booster shot focused on increasing opportunities for minority students. Morehouse College said Thursday it received a $9 million grant from the National Science Foundation as a founding partner of the HBCU Undergraduate Success Research Center. The initiative is designed to “increase educational and employment…
Read MoreYerkes Genomics Research Will Help Predict COVID-19 Disease Severity, Inform Treatment Decisions
As part of Emory University’s participation in the multi-center Immunophenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort (IMPACC), the Yerkes National Primate Research Center has received a one-year, $4.1 million grant supplement from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to track gene expression from 1,000 COVID-19 patients. This information will help IMPACC’s efforts to develop…
Read MoreJ&J strikes $6.5 billion deal for autoimmune disease specialist Momenta
Johnson & Johnson agreed to buy Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc for about $6.5 billion on Wednesday, to bolster its portfolio of drugs for hard-to-treat autoimmune diseases. The acquisition, latest in a recent spate of healthcare deals, comes just days after France’s Sanofi struck a $3.7 billion deal to buy Principia Biopharma Inc for its pipeline of…
Read MoreKeep Up The Rates
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted health and well-being beyond the damage caused by the virus, with profound implications across the healthcare system. In nearly every US community, elective surgeries have been postponed and routine care has been delayed. Amid closed healthcare settings and fears of contracting the novel coronavirus, routine vaccinations have declined significantly across…
Read MoreMedShape Receives $2.6M DOD Development Grant for Novel NiTiNOL Dynamic Compression Devices
MedShape Inc., the industry leader in innovative NiTiNOL and other advanced material technologies, today announced that it has received a Technology/Therapeutic Development Award funded by the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program (PRMRP) to assist in the research and development of a dynamic compression fusion device using superelastic nickel titanium (NiTiNOL) for use…
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