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The new agreement will allow Medable to integrate Withings home data collection technologies into its clinical trial software platform. (metamorworks/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Trial software company Medable has teamed up with medical device developer Withings Health Solutions in a move to boost its decentralized learning business. The deal — financial terms …

The FDA has asked Editas to come up with an improved efficacy test, which should be developed after the first patients are dosed in the safety part of the study before moving on to the efficacy side. (Dr_Microbe/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Editas Medicine has confirmed that a sickle cell therapy has …

Pfizer is not alone in its struggles to bring a NASH drug to market. (Shidlovski/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Another NASH drug bites the dust. This time it’s Pfizer’s early-stage danuglipron, which the drugmaker tossed because of liver disease. The GLP1 agonist, also known as PF-06882961, will no longer be promoted as …

Researchers used the new peptide drug in an animal model of severe ischemic stroke and found it improved motor function, sensory function, spatial learning and memory. (iStock/Getty Images Plus) Once a stroke occurs, the damage cannot be repaired by any drug on the market. But researchers believe they have found …

San Francisco-based CRO Vial has strengthened its oncology expertise by adding oncologist Neeraj Agarwal, MD, to its scientific advisory board. Vial announced the appointment earlier this month, predicting that Agarwal’s expertise in genitourinary cancer and experience conducting several clinical trials will be an asset. The firm wrote that it is …

According to recent analyses, lower limb amputees have an even higher risk of falling than the healthy geriatric population—with a reported incidence of up to 80% in some cases—but have long been left out of research on fall risk and potential solutions. (iStock/Getty Images Plus/metamorworks) Accidental falls are the second …

An improved stem cell-based CAR-T was able to give rise to more memory T cells, which could make the therapy more effective against tumors, researchers found. (luismmolina/iStock/Getty Images Plus). Just over a year after ElevateBio and Boston Children’s Hospital joined forces to develop new cell and gene therapies, the two …

After a whirlwind 2021 that saw Boston Scientific gobble up a handful of smaller companies left and right, the giant’s M&A appetite seems to have slowed. In the first half of last year, Boston Sci already had written plans to acquire three of its long-term partners and investors. For this …

After examining blood test results on the day of collection from nearly 1,700 patients, the researchers found that higher levels of certain biomarkers were associated with death or severe disability within six months. (Jolygon/Getty Images) A study of Abbott’s rapid portable blood test to assess concussions showed that by taking …

As it turns out, none of this seems to have any benefit,” said Mark Pletcher, M.D., corresponding author of the new study. ((Chompoo Suriyo/Shutterstock)) Newer models offer digital readouts and smartphone connectivity, and have even begun ditching cuffs in favor of slimmer sensors. But in a rare exception to the …