Company News in the Life Science Industry

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Evolent Health, Inc. (NYSE: EVH), a company providing an integrated value-based care platform to the nation's leading health systems and physician organizations ("Evolent Health"), today announced the pricing of an underwritten secondary public offering... Read more ››

WASHINGTON, June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Evolent Health, Inc. (NYSE: EVH), a company providing an integrated value-based care platform to the nation's leading health systems and physician organizations ("Evolent Health"), today announced the launch of an underwritten secondary public offering... Read more ››

BRAINTREE, Mass., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE: HAE) announced the formation of a Scientific Advisory Council ("SAC") as part of its broader innovation agenda, advancing its commitment to science and clinical excellence. The Scientific Advisory Council, composed... Read more ››

CARLSBAD, Calif., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval to Thermo Fisher Scientific for the first next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based test that simultaneously screens tumor samples for biomarkers associated with three FDA-approved... Read more ››

SILVER SPRING, Md., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Haegarda, the first C1 Esterase Inhibitor (Human) for subcutaneous (under the skin) administration to prevent Hereditary Angioedema (HAE) attacks in adolescent and adult patients.... Read more ››

ST. LOUIS, June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Our nation's unprecedented opioid epidemic has been called the worst drug crisis in American history.... Read more ››

NEW YORK, June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Joseph J. Plumeri, Executive Chair, and Samuel A. Ball, President and CEO of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, a leading national addiction policy and research organization, call upon our nation's lawmakers to look past partisan... Read more ››

EAST HANOVER, N.J., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Novartis today announced the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of Tafinlar(®) (dabrafenib) in combination with Mekinist(®) (trametinib) to treat patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors express the... Read more ››

SAN DIEGO, June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- BNBuilders (www.bnbuilders.com) and Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (www.are.com) are pleased to announce the... Read more ››

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Protesters rallied outside of a San Clemente City Council meeting on June 20, 2017, to make their voices heard about a discriminatory... Read more ››

PORTLAND, Ore., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute announced that internationally renowned bioengineering and technology expert Mike Heller, Ph.D., will join the institute's Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center, or CEDAR, to lead its technology... Read more ››

LOS ANGELES, June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has cleared as a Class II medical device Insulin Algorithms' decision-support software, which helps clinicians manage every type of insulin for diabetes treatment. Culminating a lifetime of clinical practice and... Read more ››

HARRISBURG, Pa., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Wendell W. Young IV, President of UFCW Local 1776, today congratulated three successful applicants for medical marijuana licenses in Pennsylvania, all of whom have signed Labor Peace Agreements with UFCW.

HOUSTON, June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Advanced Pharma, Inc. d/b/a Avella of Houston ("Advanced Pharma") is conducting a limited, voluntary recall due to Hospira Inc.'s ("Hospira") June 15, 2017 recall announcement that microbial growth was detected during a routine simulation of the manufacturing... Read more ››

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BARCELONA, Spain, June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Grifols (MCE: GRF, MCE: GRF.P and NASDAQ: GRFS), a leading global producer of plasma-derived medicines, and a leader in the development of innovative diagnostic solutions, is expanding its Texas-based Clinical Diagnostics Laboratory menu by launching... Read more ››