He is just eight years old and should be enjoying football and computer games. But Ben Scott suffers from a rare form of dementia – which is slowly robbing him of his mental faculties and taking his life away. He can still recognise his mum and dad and give them...
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OAKLAND, Calif. — SonALAsense, a pioneer in the development of non-invasive Sonodynamic Therapy (SDT) using SONALA-001 (aminolevulinic acid HCl) in combination with Insightec’s Exablate 4000 Type-2 ultrasound device today announced the presentation of positive preliminary data from the ongoing Phase 1/2 SDT-201 study in Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG). These...
WATERTOWN, Mass. — Sonata Therapeutics, a biotechnology company developing a new class of therapeutics called Network Medicines™, and the Champalimaud Foundation, a world leader in biomedical research and academic medicine, today announced a research collaboration for the development of Sonata’s novel Network Medicine, SNT-3012. The partnership will drive the continued...
BOSTON, Mass. and ROLLE, Switzerland – SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH), a cloud-native software company and a leader in data-driven medicine, and the French Kidney Cancer Research Network (UroCCR) collaborated on a study using a multimodal algorithm to help predict post-operative outcomes for those facing renal cell carcinoma (RCC), with the results...
Beijing, China – Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common disease in human history and one of the main causes of cancer-related death. Sorafenib (SORA) is the best representative of angiogenesis inhibitors and is currently being commonly used in the treatment of advanced HCC as a first-line drug. Although SORA improves...
Philadelphia, PA — Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT2) inhibitors, which are medications that lower blood sugar levels among other effects, provide kidney- and heart-related benefits to patients with and without diabetes. An exploratory analysis recently uncovered the effects of sotagliflozin, a dual SGLT1 and 2 inhibitor, in patients with type 2 diabetes and...
In patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) receiving background therapy, treatment with sotatercept led to significant reductions in pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR), according to study results published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers randomly assigned 106 patients with PAH (mean age, 48.3±14.3 years) who were receiving stable background therapy...
The Phase 2 AURELIO-04 study is expected to enroll up to 300 patients across six different indications The study will be conducted in the US and selected European countries and will begin in the first half of 2022 BASEL, Switzerland – SOTIO Biotech, a clinical-stage immuno-oncology company owned by PPF Group,...
L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain – Once they enter the body, drugs, apart from carrying out their therapeutic function, are biochemically transformed by the action of the metabolic machinery, a process that facilitates their expulsion. This biotransformation results in a gradual disappearance of the drug, which is converted into its metabolites....
Barcelona, Spain – Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. With global incidence rates rising, new, more effective treatments are necessary to alleviate the health burden of the disease. Important advances in recent years include doctors using genetic tests to look for specific mutations they can target for more...