USA – As earnings season kicks off, medtech investors are tuning in to hear how leading healthcare technology firms like GE Healthcare, Intuitive Surgical, and Medtronic are planning to manage the ongoing effects of President Donald Trump’s evolving trade and tariff policies. With tariffs rising and trade tensions between the U.S. and China intensifying, the […]
TANZANIA – Tanzania has officially joined a major East African medical oxygen initiative, thanks to a US $22 million project led by Unitaid. The East African Program of Oxygen Access (EAPOA) aims to provide sustainable access to medical oxygen in sub-Saharan Africa, starting with the construction of production plants that serve multiple countries. Launched in […]
USA – Biotech firm Attovia Therapeutics has raised US $90 million in Series C funding, with pharmaceutical giant Sanofi joining the round. The funding brings Attovia’s total capital raised to US $255 million since its launch, reinforcing its position as a rising innovator in immunology and inflammatory (I&I) diseases. The financing, led by Deep Track […]
BELGIUM – The European Commission has officially approved Leqembi (lecanemab), a new Alzheimer’s treatment developed by Eisai and Biogen, in partnership with BioArctic. This marks a historic step — it’s the first Alzheimer’s drug approved in Europe that directly targets the root cause of the disease. Leqembi is designed for patients with early-stage Alzheimer’s — […]
IRELAND – Cook Medical is taking big steps toward sustainability with a €3 million (US $3.4 million) investment in green technologies at its manufacturing site in Castletroy, Limerick, Ireland. The investment will support a major eco-friendly overhaul of the company’s operations, aimed at reducing carbon emissions and improving energy efficiency. Key upgrades include the installation […]
USA – Edwards Lifesciences has announced that its latest heart valve innovation, the Sapien M3 system, has earned CE mark approval in Europe. This marks a major step forward in treating patients with mitral regurgitation (MR) who are not eligible for traditional surgery or TEER (transcatheter edge-to-edge repair). The Sapien M3 is the first transcatheter […]
USA – The United States government has officially kicked off a national security investigation into pharmaceutical imports — a move that could soon lead to new tariffs on medicines and medical ingredients brought in from overseas. This step, announced through a Federal Register notice by the U.S. Department of Commerce, activates a Section 232 investigation […]
CHINA – HighTide Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharma company, has announced positive results from two Phase 3 trials in China for its novel drug HTD1801, aimed at treating type 2 diabetes (T2DM). The trials—SYMPHONY 1 and SYMPHONY 2—tested HTD1801 (berberine ursodeoxycholate) on over 950 adult patients with T2DM. The goal was to assess how well the […]
USA – Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS) has received another approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its cancer-fighting drug combo, Opdivo and Yervoy. This time, the combination is cleared as a first-line treatment for patients with advanced liver cancer — also known as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) — who cannot have surgery. The […]
USA – Pfizer has announced that it is stopping development of its much-anticipated weight-loss pill, danuglipron, after spotting early signs of liver toxicity during late-stage clinical trials. This move deals a serious blow to the company’s goal of catching up with market leaders in the obesity drug space. Danuglipron was part of a new wave […]
USA – Johnson & Johnson MedTech has reached a major milestone with its Ottava surgical robot, marking the start of its first clinical trial procedures. The early-stage surgeries were successfully performed by Dr. Erik Wilson, a leader in minimally invasive surgery, at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center. Dr. Wilson, who also heads the department of minimally […]
GERMANY – A multidrug-resistant strain of cholera has made its way from Eastern Africa to Europe—this time, not through food or water systems, but through religious tradition. According to a study published in Eurosurveillance, contaminated holy water from Ethiopia has been linked to recent cholera infections in Germany and the United Kingdom. The source of […]
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