Dive Brief: Novo Nordisk said Monday it will spend up to $1.3 billion to buy an experimental hypertension drug from Singapore-based KBP Biosciences, adding to a string of acquisitions that builds out its metabolic disease business behind the blockbuster diabetes drug Ozempic. The pill, called ocedurenone, is in a Phase 3 trial in people with […]
Are you a “good” bone marrow donor and if not, can you become one? There are 55,000-60,000 blood stem cell transplantations also known as bone marrow transplants performed across the globe each year. A serious complication known as graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is diagnosed for over half of these patients and occurs due to donor cells […]
Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Stay ahead of the trend in fashion and beyond with our free weekly Lifestyle Edit newsletter Sam Neill has been warned by doctors that his cancer treatment drug will stop working at some point, the actor said as he […]
Centenarians have become the fastest-growing demographic group in the world, with numbers approximately doubling every 10 years since the 1970s. Many researchers have sought out the factors and contributors that determine a long and healthy life. The dissolution isn’t new either, with Plato and Aristotle writing about the ageing process over 2,300 years ago. Understanding […]
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, which specialises in anti-diabetic and anti-obesity treatments, announced Monday it is acquiring hypertension drug ocedurenone for $1.3 billion The molecule, developed by the biotech firm KBP Biosciences, is currently the subject of clinical trials in patients suffering from uncontrolled hypertension and kidney disease. “With its expected benefit-risk profile, ocedurenone has best-in-class […]
Yikes. A fourth grade class at a Florida charter school sat through the first “20-30 minutes” of Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey. Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield, the movie sees Winnie and Piglet get revenge on Christopher Robin before going on a murder rampage that involves hunting a group of girls on holiday at a […]
Sam Neill, the Jurassic Park star and the grown-up Damian in the Omen franchise, has revealed that the treatment that sent him into a year-long remission from the rare blood cancer angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma will eventually stop working. “I’m prepared for that,” Neill told the Australian Story tv program, adding that he is not “remotely […]
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Masimo has received de novo authorization for a device designed to improve the monitoring of blood oxygen in certain situations. The device, ORi, is intended to support standard pulse oximetry by providing additional insights into […]
Forged by Blood, Ehigbor Okosun (Harper Voyager 978-0-0631-1262-9, $32.00. 400pp, hc) August 2023. Readers looking for a high-octane story with an equal amount of romance and fight scenes should look no further than Ehigbor Okosun’s Forged by Blood, the first in the debut author’s Tainted Blood duology. It’s the perfect summer adventure story. Forged by […]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Blood management programs that reduced or avoided transfusions saved a health system millions of dollars annually, with a return on investment of more than $7 for every dollar spent, while achieving the same or better outcomes, suggests research presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY 2023 annual meeting. Over the past 10 years, the […]