INSPIRATION FROM REAL LIFE HEROES
Inspired and moved to share below the essence of a true story which has unfolded in our own country in the recent past and in our own midst:
Sensorion announces that it has obtained Investigational New Drug (IND) status from the FDA for SENS-111, enabling the Company to initiate a clinical study in acute severe vertigo.
The Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs Sh. Ananth Kumar has said that Promotion and Regulation should go hand in hand for medical devices sector to provide affordable health care to the poor. Speaking at the 9th Medical Technology Conference in New Delhi today he said that regulation is required in the medical devices sector to check profit and money making so as to facilitate providing adequate medical facilities to the poor.
Santhera Pharmaceuticals announces that the Office of Orphan Products Development (OOPD) at the US Food and Drug Admin-istration (FDA) has granted Santhera an award of USD 246,000 in support of its ongoing Phase I trial with omigapil (CALLISTO) in patients with congenital muscular dystrophy (CMD). Santhera is conducting CALLISTO in collaboration with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). The FDA awards grants through the Orphan Products Grants Program to sup-port the clinical development of products for use in rare diseases where no current therapy exists.