Press Announcements

Aster Volunteers donate 75 tonnes of food to 1500 underprivileged families in Yemen

As Yemen continues to grapple with one of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis,Aster Volunteers – the global CSR arm of Aster DM Healthcare along with supporting NGOs like Dar Al Shifa Establishment and Governor of Seiyun- Hadramout region, launched a relief mission to distribute ration kits to the people of Yemen. Around 1500 families received […]

Drug Updates

Florica Therapeutics, Inc. selected for National Science Foundation Innovation Corps

Florica Therapeutics, Inc. is pleased to announce being selected to participate in the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps (I-Corps) national program. The NSF I-Corps program is an intensive seven-week innovation and entrepreneurship training course aimed at identifying product-market fit. Recipients are provided with training, mentorship and $20,000 in NSF funding. “We are immensely grateful to the National […]

Hospital Updates

Dr. Susan M. Smith Named Inaugural Dickson Foundation – Harris Teeter Distinguished Professor in Nutrition

Susan M. Smith, Ph.D., has been named the inaugural holder of The Dickson Foundation – Harris Teeter Distinguished Professorship in Nutrition. Smith, who joined the UNC-Chapel Hill faculty in 2016, is a professor of Nutrition at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and serves as deputy director for science at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute. The newly […]

Drug Updates

Microalgae Could Hold Promise for IBD

Microalgae cultivation start-up Yemoja, Ltd. is joining the MIGAL Galilee Research institute to spearhead an extensive, four-year research initiative to identify algae-sourced compounds with the potential to help manage inflammation and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Select beneficial algae will be developed into functional foods as well as nutraceutical and pharmaceutical applications. The initiative, titled “Algae4IBD,” […]

Hospital Updates

A one of its kind, Mumbai district’s first robotic knee replacement center launched by The Knee Clinic

The Knee Clinic at ACI-Cumballa Hill Hospital announced the launch of Mumbai district’s first Robotic Knee Replacement Center today. The NAVIO-CORI Robotics platform is one of the foremost healthcare innovations of this decade, heralding a new era for knee replacement surgery. Strongly believing that this is the future of knee surgery, Dr. Miten Sheth, MS, […]

Drug Updates

AKAY-Spiceuticals substantiates FENUMAT-Capsaicin as the first Natural and Vegan ‘Bioavailable Capsaicinoids’ following a sustained-intestinal delivery approach

Intestinal delivery with enhanced bioavailability is of great significance for stomach irritating and pungent bioactive molecules like Capsaicinoids from red chili peppers. Because, oral delivery is the one and only approved and preferred route of administration for nutrients (Nutraceuticals and Functional foods). But, there exist many challenges for pungent capsaicinoids.  High dosage due to poor […]

Hospital Updates

Aster Medcity doctor’s gift a new lease of life to 38-year-old Farooq who was suffering from rare post-Covid bowel gangrene complications

Farooq. V, a 38-year-old native hailing from Ponnani, Malappuram is an exceptional survivor of a disease that has an otherwise very high death rate, said Dr. Prakash K, Senior Consultant Gastro Surgery, Aster Medcity, Kochi. It is known that Covid-19 affects the lungs, kidneys and various other organs. Blockage of blood vessels to the intestine and […]

Press Releases

Penumbra, Inc. to Present at the 2021 Wells Fargo Virtual Healthcare Conference

ALAMEDA, Calif., Aug. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Penumbra, Inc. (NYSE: PEN) today announced that its management team is scheduled to present at the 2021 Wells Fargo Virtual Healthcare Conference on Thursday, September 9, 2021. Event:     2021 Wells Fargo Virtual Healthcare ConferenceDate:       Thursday, September 9, 2021Time:      12:40pm ET /9:40am PT A webcast of the presentation will be […]

Pandemic Pulse

RedHill Biopharma’s Opaganib Demonstrates Strong Inhibition of COVID-19 Delta Variant

RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (Nasdaq: RDHL) (“RedHill” or the “Company”), a specialty biopharmaceutical company, today announced preliminary results of a new preclinical study showing strong inhibition by opaganib (ABC294640)[1] of Delta variant replication while maintaining cell viability at relevant concentrations. Working with the University of Louisville Center for Predictive Medicine, opaganib was studied in a 3D […]

Hospital Updates

Sai Life Sciences becomes a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)

Sai Life Sciences, a leading global Contract Research, Development & Manufacturing Organization (CRO/ CDMO), today announced that it has become a signatory of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), the world’s largest sustainability initiative. As a signatory, Sai Life Sciences has committed itself to adopting the Ten Principles of the UNGC on human rights, labour, […]