Chronic Disease Management

Magellan Healthcare, Concert Genetics to Improve Genetic Testing

by Samantha McGrail

Magellan Healthcare and Concert Genetics recently collaborated to offer an innovative, end-to-end solution that delivers efficient management, improved quality, and accurate payment in genetic...

Tempus, VA Expand Next-Generation Sequencing for Cancer Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

Tempus recently collaborated with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Precision Oncology Program (NPOP) to expand access to next-generation sequencing offerings and support...

Pfizer Opens First US Phase 3 Study Evaluating Gene Therapy

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer will open the first United States sites in the Phase 3 study evaluating its investigational mini-dystrophin gene therapy, fordadistrogene movaparvovec, in ambulatory patients with Duchenne...

Climate Change, Fossil Fuel Boosts Healthcare Costs to $820B

by Samantha McGrail

The price of healthcare costs attributed to climate change and fossil fuel use is nearly $820 billion annually in the United States, according to multiple scientific research studies.   Over...

Wisconsin Health Authorities Warn of Childhood Hepatitis Cases

by Samantha McGrail

Wisconsin health authorities are investigating four cases of childhood hepatitis, including one patient who needed a liver transplant and one who died after suffering severe liver damage, according to...

WHO Panel Concludes a One-Dose HPV Vaccine Effective in Women

by Samantha McGrail

The World Health Organization’s (WHOs) Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization (SAGE) recently concluded that a single-dose human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine provides comparable...

Researchers Identify 42 New Genes for Alzheimer’s Disease

by Samantha McGrail

A major international study recently identified 75 genes associated with an increased risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, including 42 new genes not previously discovered.  The study...

Mount Sinai Develops CRISPR Technology to Advance Cancer Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

Mount Sinai scientists recently developed CRISPR technology to link genes to complex tumor characteristics at a scale and resolution not previously possible.  Perturb-map CRISPR technology uses a...

BioMarin Pharmaceutical’s Gene Therapy Helps Hemophilia A Patients

by Samantha McGrail

BioMarin Pharmaceuticals recently announced results from the Phase 3 GENEr8-1 study of valoctocogene roxaparvovec, an investigational gene therapy to treat adults with severe hemophilia...

Medtronic’s Medical Device Boosts Polyp Detection in Colonoscopy

by Samantha McGrail

Medtronic recently confirmed the effectiveness of its medical device, GI Genius intelligent endoscopy module, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to detect colorectal polyps during...

Boehringer, Partners Boost Gene Therapy Development For CF

by Samantha McGrail

Boehringer Ingelheim, the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium (GTC), and Oxford Biomedica (OXB) will further accelerate the development of a potential new treatment option for patients with...

Inscripta, Hunterian Boost Access to CRISPR Gene-Editing Tools

by Samantha McGrail

Inscripta recently granted a non-exclusive license to Hunterian Medicine, a gene-editing and gene therapy company, to access one of several CRISPR nucleases in its Madagascar family of nucleases...

Thermo Fisher Launches Medium to Support Cell, Gene Therapy

by Samantha McGrail

Thermo Fisher Scientific recently launched a GMP-manufactured cell culture medium that supports the large-scale growth and culture of functional natural killer (NK) cells for cell and gene...

bluebird bio Submits BLA for Gene Therapy to Treat β-thalassemia

by Samantha McGrail

bluebird bio recently announced the completion of its rolling submission of its Biologics License Application to FDA for betibeglogene autotemcel (beti-cel) gene therapy in patients with...

Novartis Acquires Gene Therapy Company to Expand Portfolio

by Samantha McGrail

Novartis recently acquired Arctos Medical to add a pre-clinical optogenetics-based AAV gene therapy program and Arctos’ proprietary technology to its ophthalmology portfolio. Optogenetics has...

FDA Clears IND for Neurogene’s Gene Therapy for Batten Disease

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently cleared Neurogene’s Investigational New Drug (IND) application for its CLN5 Batten disease gene therapy, NGN-101.  NGN-101 is an adeno-associated virus (AAV) gene therapy and...

FDA Halts BioMarin’s Trial Assessing Gene Therapy in Rare Disease

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently placed a clinical hold on BioMarin Pharmaceuticals Phase 1/2 trial evaluating its AAV5-phenylalanine hydroxylase (PAH) gene therapy in adults with the rare disease, phenylketonuria...

NeuExcell, Spark Therapeutics to Develop Gene Therapy for HD

by Samantha McGrail

NeuExcell Therapeutics and Spark Therapeutics recently announced a gene therapy collaboration to develop a safe and effective treatment for patients with Huntington’s Disease (HD).  Under...