Arcadia, a leading data analytics platform for healthcare and life sciences, and Datavant, a leader in helping organizations securely connect health data, announced a partnership to enable de-identified connectivity of Arcadia’s electronic health record data for life sciences research and commercial analytics.

Mallinckrodt plc announced the publication of findings from a retrospective chart review study assessing the real-world use and outcomes of INOmax (nitric oxide) gas, for inhalation therapy in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 and mild-to-moderate acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a disorder in which fluid leaks into the lungs, making breathing difficult or impossible. The results of the study were published in the peer-reviewed journal Drugs in Context.

EVERSANA, the pioneer of next generation commercial services to the global life sciences industry, and THREAD, a leading technology and service provider enabling electronic clinical outcome assessments (eCOAs) and decentralized clinical trials (DCTs), announced a new combined offering to give pharmaceutical companies a comprehensive and simultaneous view of clinical research participants, followed by data and detailed analysis across the care continuum.

Johnson & Johnson said on January 6 that a real-world study showed the company’s single shot Covid-19 vaccine protects against breakthrough infections and hospitalizations for up to six months.

Immunology is one of the more complicated areas of the life sciences, and recent studies on the long-term efficacy of the mRNA vaccines against Covid-19 are prime examples of just how complicated it can be.

Pfizer BioNTech, COVID booster

U.S. Food and Drug Administration scientists said on Sept. 15 that booster doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine may not be needed, even though the third shot generates a higher immune response in recipients.

Swoop, a leader in AI-generated digital audiences for healthcare, announced the release of its newest product offerings that uncover optimal healthcare provider (HCP) influencers for life sciences companies.

Two very exciting areas where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having an impact on the life sciences landscape are patient stratification and synthetic control arms. Recent data and technology advances are starting to yield compelling results, according to Derek Baird, President North America of Sensyne Health and Commercial Director of SENSE.

Real Chemistry’s IPM.ai, a leader in uncovering undiagnosed and misdiagnosed patients via machine learning, and Datavant, a leader in helping healthcare and life science organizations securely connect their data, announced an expanded partnership that will enable pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to connect de-identified first-party data to IPM.ai’s real-world data universe.

Eli Lilly and Company announced the launch of a head-to-head study to compare once-monthly injectable Emgality (galcanezumab-gnlm) with Nurtec ODT (rimegepant) for the prevention of migraine.