Tag: FDA
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Patent Given for Non-Invasive Spinal Stimulation Technology
2 June 2016. A New York neuroscientist who invented a device for stimulating the spinal cord from outside the body to relieve muscle spasticity and paralysis, received a patent for his technology. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded patent number 9,283,391 to physical therapy professor Zaghloul Ahmed at College of Staten Island, a division of…
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Pricing Factors Proposed for Gene Therapies
Updated 27 May 2016. See Another Chance to Get Serious on Drug Pricing. A pediatric cancer specialist and venture capital executive argue for establishing a framework for pricing gene therapies to treat inherited and other diseases, before these treatments are approved by FDA. Stuart Orkin, a pediatric oncologist and hematologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Research Center…
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FDA Approves Trial Testing Stem Cells for Brain Injuries
Updated 10 June 2016. Gordie Howe died today at age 88. 18 May 2016. A company developing stem cell therapies says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its application for a clinical trial testing stem cell treatments for traumatic brain injury. The intermediate-stage trial, sponsored by Stemedica Cell Technologies Inc. is part of a research…
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566 New Drugs in Pipeline for Orphan Diseases
9 May 2016. A report by an industry group says 566 drugs designed to treat rare diseases are now in clinical testing by pharmaceutical companies. The report, prepared by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, and the ALS Association, credits many of these new drugs to incentives in legislation encouraging research and development…
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NIH Closes Two Clinical Facilities for Sterility Issues
20 April 2016. National Institutes of Health closed two of its clinical facilities found not in compliance with safety and quality standards that could put patients at risk. Facilities at NIH closed for not meeting Current Good Manufacturing Practice standards are a cell therapy production lab at National Cancer Institute and a production center for…
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Exome Profiles Tapped for Precise Cancer Therapies
30 March 2016. Informatics and genomics researchers at University of Colorado in Denver designed an automated system that matches genetic variations with FDA-approved cancer drugs. The team led by oncology and informatics professor Aik Choon Tan published its findings yesterday (29 March) in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association; paid subscription required. Tan and…
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Electronic Patch Offers Pain Relief, Cuts Medication Use
29 March 2016. A study of customers using an electronic patch to relieve chronic pain, shows the patch relieves muscular and skeleton pain over 6 months, enabling its users to reduce their need for pain drugs. The study was done by BioElectronics Corp. in Frederick, Maryland, developer of the device, which expects to present the…
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Propeller, Boehringer Partner on Inhaler Adherence Study
23 March 2016. The pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim is collaborating with a mobile health technology developer to track use of its medications for asthma and COPD administered with its inhaler. Financial aspects of the agreement between Propeller Health in Madison, Wisconsin, and Boehringer Ingelheim were not disclosed. Boehringer Ingelheim, headquartered in Germany, markets a number…
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Clinical Trial Advances Dengue Vaccine Candidate
17 March 2016. A small-scale clinical trial testing an experimental vaccine with people given live dengue viruses shows the vaccine is effective in preventing dengue infections. The team from Johns Hopkins University and University of Vermont published its findings in yesterday’s (16 March) issue of Science Translational Medicine; paid subscription required. The vaccine, developed by…
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EKG Technology Integrated into Apple Watch Band
16 March 2016. Owners of an Apple Watch will soon be able to track their heart rhythms, using electrocardiogram or EKG sensors built into the wrist band for the device. The Kardia Band and supporting Apple Watch app are made by AliveCor Inc. in San Francisco, a developer of medical devices adapting smartphone technology for…