A global commission has proposed a fundamental change to the way obesity is defined and diagnosed. If the change is implemented, obesity would be considered a health risk in some contexts, and a ...

Cornerstone Robotics Ltd. raised more than $70 million in a series C round to expand its international footprint and ...

In a deal potentially worth $810 million for Regenxbio Inc., Nippon Shinyaku Co. Ltd. is partnering on the U.S. and Asian development and commercialization of iduronate-2-sulfatase enzyme RGX-121 for ...

III study in treating thyroid eye disease. The privately held company posted top-line efficacy and safety results from a phase IIb/III study of its lead candidate, linsitinib, which hits its primary ...

U.S. Medicare coverage of renal denervation (RDN) for uncontrolled hypertension may soon be a fact of life if the manufacturers of these systems have their way. CMS opened a national coverage analysis ...

The U.S. FDA posted a draft guidance that would revisit a 2014 final guidance on sex-specific data drawn from medical device clinical trials, expanding the scope to include considerations of gender.

Ips Heart Inc. has been awarded orphan drug designation by the FDA for its GIVI-MPC stem cell therapy for Becker muscular dystrophy. GIVI-MPC has the unique ability to create new muscle with full ...

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are under the microscope again, this time for the price markups their affiliated specialty pharmacies charge for generic drugs used to treat cancer, HIV, multiple ...

Abbvie Inc. and Simcere Zaiming Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. are part of the volley of large deals accompanying the opening of the ...

The accelerating pace of U.S. FDA approvals for cell and gene therapies is “great for the field and great news for the patients,” but questions remain over commercialization, with “costs remaining ...

Pulsesight Therapeutics SAS has submitted a clinical trial authorization (CTA) to the French authority ANSM seeking to conduct a first-in-human phase I trial of PST-611 for dry age-related macular ...

Scientists at Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ) have reported a novel multitarget-directed ligand (MTDL) targeting butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) with potential for development as an ...