Investigational therapies are finally achieving some success in treating Alzheimer’s disease, but a cure is not yet in sight. Medtech now has a golden opportunity in pre-symptomatic detection, according to digital health tech research initiative, EDoN.
Alzheimer’s disease has long exasperated researchers and patients alike for its seeming impossibility to be treated, let alone cured. The pile of investigational therapies that once showed theoretical promise, but failed to translate this into clinical success, is ever-growing.
This could soon change. Lecanemab, an investigational drug candidate jointly developed by Biogen and Eisai, made international headlines last September...
A revised annex to the original decision also outlines expert remuneration limits and introduces further changes.
Thena Capital, the first UK-based early-stage specialist medtech firm, has made its first investment since closing its £50m fund. Medtech Insight spoke with general partner Pamela Walker Geddes to gain insight into Thena Capital’s investment strategy.
Finland has initiated a project to improve the effectiveness of the monitoring of software intended for medical use and to ensure that software placed on its market meets the requirements set for it.
The Milner Institute, the on-campus hub for start-up acceleration at Cambridge University, hosted its annual Pitch Day on July 1. Start-ups Panakeia, PathwayBio and Sentinal4D presented diagnostic technologies.
HHS and its agencies violated the law by swiftly implementing “sweeping and poorly thought-through directives that ordered the bulk removal of healthcare resources,” including FDA draft guidances on diversity action plans and sex differences in clinical trials, a federal court said.
The US FDA needs to know who wants a seat at the MDUFA negotiations table before discussions can begin. The agency is asking stakeholders to let it know if they plan to participate in the periodic consultation meetings before July 28.
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