Towards Healthcare

News

Your Daily Gateway to Essential News in Healthcare, Science, Technology and Business Worldwide

Alnylam Secures Dual FDA Approvals as siRNA Therapies Expand Beyond Liver
10 June 2025

Alnylam Secures Dual FDA Approvals as siRNA Therapies Expand Beyond Liver

Alnylam’s Goal is to Expand Medication Image Credits: Biospace Announcement Alnylam received two FDA approvals for Sanofi’s Qfitlia in hemophilia A and B, and Amvuttra in transthyretin-mediated amyloidosis. The approval is a part of Alnylam, along with other companies. Companies suc...

Sarepta Receives FDA’s First-Ever Platform Technology Designation for Gene Therapy
09 June 2025

Sarepta Receives FDA’s First-Ever Platform Technology Designation for Gene Therapy

‘Sarepta’ Transitional Shift to Gene Therapy Development Image Credits: Biospace Platform Technology The FDA announced Sarepta Therapeutics as the FDA’s first-ever publicly documented platform technology designation. A designation for a popular vector known as ‘rAAVrh74&...

Pharma Giants Like Sanofi and BMS Lead a New Wave of Biotech Acquisitions in 2024
09 June 2025

Pharma Giants Like Sanofi and BMS Lead a New Wave of Biotech Acquisitions in 2024

Pharmaceutical Companies Enter a New Era of Acquisitions Announcement Sanofi, a leading healthcare and pharmaceutical company, received a badge as the biggest buyer with a major contribution to rare disease specialist blueprint medicines of 9.5 billion. Whereas, Bristol-Myers Squibb offered a me...

Jazz and Roche Reveal Promising Phase 3 Results for Small-Cell Lung Cancer Drug Combo
09 June 2025

Jazz and Roche Reveal Promising Phase 3 Results for Small-Cell Lung Cancer Drug Combo

A Drug Compilation for Small-cell Lung Cancer Image Credits: Fierce Pharma Announcement The Jazz and Roche pharmaceuticals have introduced an upgraded phase 3 data of the combined medicines Zepzelca and Tecentriq. This solution is planning to win FDA approval as a drug cocktail for small-cell l...

Amgen's New Lung Cancer Drug Cuts Death Risk by 40%
06 June 2025

Amgen's New Lung Cancer Drug Cuts Death Risk by 40%

Amgen’s Imdelltra drug minimizes the risk of death by 40% in comparison to chemotherapy, mainly for small-cell lung cancer patients. The drug will help cure these patients after their worst condition, after the initial round of chemotherapy. The phase 3 trial of 509 patients showed that t...

FDA Launches AI Tool Elsa to Speed Up Drug Review and Improve Safety
06 June 2025

FDA Launches AI Tool Elsa to Speed Up Drug Review and Improve Safety

Image Credits: Tech360.tv Announcement The US Food and Drug Administration introduced its generative AI tool, Elsa. Elsa is launched to improve and enhance operations and scientific reviews. The proven successful result of ‘Elsa’ was when one of the FDA’s applications of a pote...

US Government Advances Emergency Abortion and New COVID Vaccine Trial Initiatives
06 June 2025

US Government Advances Emergency Abortion and New COVID Vaccine Trial Initiatives

Image Credits: Human Rights Watch Announcement The US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday mentioned the offer of emergency abortion in every hospital. In his democratic predecessor Joe Biden’s tenure, he issued guidance that emergency abortion was discussed and asked t...

Biden Administration Reaffirms Emergency Abortion Rights Under Federal Law
06 June 2025

Biden Administration Reaffirms Emergency Abortion Rights Under Federal Law

Announcement The US President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday mentioned the offer of emergency abortion in every hospital. In his democratic predecessor Joe Biden’s tenure, he issued guidance that emergency abortion was discussed and asked to consider it under medical emergenci...

Global Ban on Heritable Human Genome Editing Announced by Leading Scientists
06 June 2025

Global Ban on Heritable Human Genome Editing Announced by Leading Scientists

Action The need to take action and put control on HHGE was first addressed in 2019. When a Chinese researcher, He Jiankui, Ph.D., discovered that twin girls were born from embryos with the ‘He gene’ edited using CRISPR. The group of gene editing leaders was therefore notified of the ban...

U.S. Donates 24 Portable X-Ray Machines to Indonesia to Boost Healthcare Services
05 June 2025

U.S. Donates 24 Portable X-Ray Machines to Indonesia to Boost Healthcare Services

Initiatives The United States has a vast number of records of donations. The country has initiated the distribution of billions of dollars to various countries. The diversified and well-established factors expand in areas such as security funding and economic development. Being the largest donor, t...