Towards the end of 2019, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) organized a Pandemic Preparedness Challenge that aimed to assess the potential response to an emerging disease outbreak, such as a new strain of influenza. In one of the resulting publications from the exercise, the role that a novel technology, Arrayed Imaging Reflectometry (AIR™), could play in quickly […]

A split-second decision by a Twin Cities nurse helped to save a baby’s life. Nancy Harlow-Barnum, a pediatric home care nurse, was caring for a 1-year-old girl in Minneapolis who’d had a tracheostomy, or breathing tube, since birth. Harlow-Barnum said one night she heard the baby cough in her sleep. “Then her alarm went off, […]

The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday granted NeuroRx and partner Relief Therapeutics an expanded access protocol for their experimental treatment of respiratory failure in Covid-19 patients. The action means Covid-19 patients who are not eligible to enroll in the ongoing phase-II/III clinical trials for the therapy because of other medical conditions can still get access to […]