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Seattle Gummy Company Secures The First (IND) Gummy Drug Approval From FDA

The Pharma Data

15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Seattle Gummy Company’s breakthrough gummy drug program, which delivers Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) in its innovative gummy matrix, recently won its first Investigational New Drug Application (IND) approval from FDA on the company’s allergy gummy medication, designated as IND 140312.

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Disrupted medical conferences: Lessons learnt

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Major societies such as the European Society of cardiology (ESC) reported a 177% increase in attendees for its 2020 annual congress : 77,350 virtual attendees (logged-on) 2020 cf 27,946 physical attendees 2019. One important caveat here is that delegate registration fees were waived.

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Flu shot associated with fewer, less severe COVID cases

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Credit: Stephanie King/Michigan Medicine (the academic medical center of the University of Michigan) People who received a flu shot last flu season were significantly less likely to test positive for a COVID-19 infection when the pandemic hit, according to a new study.

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Velocity Expands to 17 Sites in Europe

Velocity Clinical Research

About Marek Konieczny, MD, PhD Dr. Konieczny is a specialist in cardiology and internal medicine. Our mission is to carry out clinical trials that provide patients with an opportunity to regain health and contribute to the development of medicine. We have been running our business for 20 years and have completed hundreds of clinical trials.

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MUSC is first in nation to enroll kids in trial of novel MIS-C therapy

Scienmag

Using an investigational cell therapy, Medical University of South Carolina pediatricians successfully treated two patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a rare but life-threatening complication of COVID-19.

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COVID-19 patients at higher risk of death, health problems than those with flu

Scienmag

Data analysis offers comparison of the 2 viruses Almost a year ago, COVID-19 began its global rampage, going on to infect about 69.5 million people and kill about 1.6 million as of early this month. From the beginning, most scientists have said that COVID-19 is deadlier than the seasonal flu, while fringe theories have circulated […].

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Dearth of mental health support during pandemic for those with chronic health problems

Scienmag

A scoping review of English and Chinese-language studies found individuals with chronic physical health conditions had higher levels of mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic; targeted interventions were lacking A new scoping review found that those with chronic health concerns, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and autoimmune conditions, (..)