Month: August 2020
Life-like Patient Simulators Used for Healthcare Training During the Pandemic and Beyond
| MedTech Intelligence

With the advent of COVID-19, all aspects of life have changed, including healthcare education. Due to the pandemic, there has been an increased reliance on robot-like patient simulators for training. Healthcare education encompasses a broad spectrum from undergraduate student clinical training to in-service training for experienced medical professionals. COVID-19 forced a reimagining of all of […]

Maintaining Lab Operations Amid Coronavirus Restrictions
| BioProcess Online

Obsidian Therapeutics CEO Dr. Paul Wotton developed a novel solution to the workforce and resource disruption caused by COVID-19 social distancing restrictions. He’s made it available to other biotechs, cost-free. The Problem: When COVID-19 struck the United States hard and fast early this spring, few companies were prepared for the lock downs, the shutdowns, and the […]

A Naturally Occurring Peptide Might be Key to Preventing Respiratory Failure in COVID-19 Patients
| Contagion Live

Earlier this week, The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted NeuroRx and Relief Therapeutics an Investigational New Drug (IND) permission to test their investigational therapy, RLF-100, for inhaled use in patients with moderate and severe coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) in order to prevent progression to respiratory failure. RLF-100 contains Vasoactive Intestinal Polypeptide (VIP), a natural occurring peptide […]