Medtronic has received CE Mark for the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system, authorizing the sale of the system in Europe. CE Mark approval is for urologic and gynaeco- logic procedures, which make up about half of all robotic procedures performed today.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have welcomed the newly formed operational definition of ‘One Health’ from their advisory panel, the One Health High Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP).
Queen’s University Belfast are leading a £1.2 million project to improve drug delivery for a range of illnesses. The grant, awarded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, part of the UK Research and Innovation, is expected to accelerate the development of microarray patches for drug delivery and make them available to patients worldwide.
The BMJ has joined forces with Cochrane Sustain- able Healthcare to launch a new podcast series called ‘The Recovery’ co-hosted by The BMJ’s Editor in Chief Dr Fiona Godlee and journalist and Bond University health researcher Dr Ray Moynihan.
In a consensus decision aimed at protecting the world from future infectious diseases crises, the World Health Assembly on 1 December 2021 agreed to kickstart a global process to draft and negotiate a convention under the Constitution of the World Health Organization to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response.
WHO’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool (C-TAP) and the Medicines Patent Pool (MPP) have finalized a licensing agreement with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) for a COVID-19 serological antibody technology. The test effectively checks for the presence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies developed either in response to a COVID-19 infection or to a vaccine. This represents the […]
Thrombolytic Science (TSI) has been granted a new patent by the USPTO for an invention that relates to methods for a safe and effective clot dissolution that mimics the natural biological system. Most strokes and all heart attacks are caused by a blood clot blocking essential blood flow to a portion of the brain or […]
The U.S. FDA has approved Takeda Pharmaceuticals’ Livtencity (maribavir) as the first drug for treating adults and paediatric patients (12 years of age and older and weighing at least 35 kilograms) with post-transplant cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection that does not respond to available antiviral treatment for CMV. Livtencity works by preventing the activity of human cytomegalovirus […]
The United Kingdom’s Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’s integrated care system has signed an eight-year contract with Orion Health to develop a shared care record that will be used by eight health and care organisations and all the GP practices in its area.
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will invest $26 million in funding to develop next-generation infectious disease forecasting and analytics. The agency will provide $21 million to support research and development of advanced infectious disease models and analytical tools. The awards will support three years of work at five leading academic […]
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