Press Releases

TOKYO, Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sasakawa Health Foundation has announced the start of its first-ever social media campaign with organizations of persons affected by leprosy.

Among CStone's 15 cancer drug candidates, five candidates are in pivotal late-stage clinical development, with a total of 13 on-going registrational trials. The Company has implemented its pipeline strategy for early-stage candidates and combination therapy. With an established clinical development platform as its growth engine, CStone is at an inflection point to transition from a R&D focused organizat

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Population Reference Bureau (PRB) today announced it has been awarded a five-year, $30-million cooperative agreement from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to accelerate the reduction of preventable child and maternal deaths globally. The new project, MOMENTUM 2C, focuses

SILVER SPRING, Md., Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to Tazverik (tazemetostat) for the treatment of adults and pediatric patients aged 16 years and older with metastatic (when cancer cells spread to other parts of the body) or locally advanced (when cancer has grown outside the organ it started

MONTREAL, Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Chinese officials have requested the temporary closing of all indoor activities with 100 or more people to stem the coronavirus outbreak. In the interest of safety for its audience members and employees, Cirque du Soleil will thus be cancelling all performances of ''Cirque du Soleil The Land of Fantasy''

PARK RIDGE, Ill., Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- (AANA)—As the 2020 presidential candidates propose to fix U.S. healthcare, rural hospitals across the country continue to close. Since the 2018 midterms, about 66 percent of primary care physician shortages have been in rural and partially rural areas.

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Time, the nation's premier healthy lifestyle brand, is continuing its national and southern California expansion with the opening of

CHICAGO, Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Changing the microenvironment of tumors to increase the immune system's response to them has been the goal of countless research and clinical studies including the most recent use of checkpoint inhibitory antibodies. The majority of patients have tumors that are "cold" -- that is, the tumors don't contain many immune cells, or

RESTON, Va., Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Leidos (NYSE:LDOS), a FORTUNE® 500 science and technology leader, announced today that Michael Jackman has been n

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)®, the Foundation for Rare Blood Diseases (SZB) and the pyruvate kinase deficiency community together made history on September 20, 2019 with patients and families sharing their experiences directly with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)