For the second year in a row, California-based Agilent Technologies – a leader in diagnostics and applied chemical markets – was ranked as one of Barron’s most sustainable companies.
FDA Awards Fast Track Designation to Multiple Non-Covid-19 Candidates
Acid Disorders, Acute repetitive seizures, Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Pandemic, Fast Track Designation, FDA, Gene Therapy, Hypogammaglobulinemia, Imaging Agents, Infections and Myelokathexis) syndrome, Methylmalonic Acidemia (MMA), MPS Type VI, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC), Phenylketonuria (PKU), Primary Mitochondrial Myopathy (PMM), Solid Tumors, WHIM (WartsWhile the world has largely been focused on the development of vaccines and therapeutics for Covid-19, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has remained busy lining up potential approvals of medications for other diseases and illnesses.
White Paper: Consistent Terms for Testing in Precision Medicine
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), Biomarkers, Biotech, Cancer, Diagnostics, Genetic Testing, Hematologic malignancies, Inherited Mutations, Medical Societies, Patient Advocates, Patient Education, Pharma, Precision Medicine, Solid Tumors, Testing Labs, White PapersThe Consistent Testing Terminology Working Group published a white paper with industry-wide recommendations for precision medicine testing terms to be utilized in patient education and communication.
Roche struck a $1.7 billion cancer drug pact with Blueprint Medicines, as advances in genetic testing for rare mutations drive lucrative deals for expensive treatments.
Quest Diagnostics saw a higher recovery in the company’s testing volumes in the United States where state and local governments were slowly lifting restrictions after the coronavirus lockdowns.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co.’s radioactive compound to detect tau, an important characteristic of Alzheimer’s disease.
Recent updates include the U.S. FDA posting a list of antibody tests that are being withdrawn voluntarily by the test’s commercial manufacturer.
Faster Drug Development Processes Likely to Outlive COVID-19 Published: April 30, 2020 By Gail Dutton BioSpace The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the pace of drug development and regulatory approval dramatically, accelerating activities in ways that shorten the time needed to deliver safe, effective therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostics to patients. “It’s unfortunate it took a […]
Routine medical tests critical for detecting and monitoring cancer and other conditions plummeted in the United States since mid-March, as the coronavirus spread and public officials urged residents to stay home, according to a new report by Komodo Health.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized at-home sample collection for LabCorp’s COVID-19 diagnostic kit, allowing patients to send in their nasal swab samples to the company’s labs for diagnosis.