Medicine and Health

RedHill Biopharma Ltd, a specialty biopharmaceutical company, announced promising preliminary results from a preclinical study with opaganib, a novel, orally administered sphingosine kinase 2 (SK2) selective inhibitor, administered at 250mg/kg, demonstrating a reduction of thrombosis (blood clotting) in an acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) – a preclinical animal model designed to measure thrombotic risks.

The benefits of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine outweigh its risks for emergency use in those 16 and older in the United States, a panel of vaccine experts told the Food and Drug Administration on December 10.

An independent committee of experts recommended Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration authorize the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 16. Now, the FDA will decide whether to follow that recommendation. The agency could announce a decision within days. If they do authorize the vaccine, health care workers could begin receiving the shots almost immediately.

In a surprising twist, a study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists has revealed for the first time that CH can – in the right context – confer a health benefit. That context is in the setting of allogeneic stem cell or bone marrow transplants.