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Loose Knit Team
Remember social distancing? DIOSynVax does - it's enshrined in their team photo even though they posed outdoors. Ahh, those pandemic memories.
Adhesions, Be Gone!
Most drugs are considered good if they sort of help a portion of patients. So, when a really effective therapy comes along it’s always amazing news.
In this case the problem of adhesions in gynecological surgery was solved in 93% of patients. Absolutely tremendous results for Temple Therapeutics and for the many women who can avoid these problematic complications in the future.
Can you say IPO?
Letters
No, this is not another mailbag. This is about the guy last week with 18 letters after his name. Ha. Child’s play. Here we have 44. Take that, Aurora BioPharma!
First one to show us someone with 50 letters after their name gets a BPG T-shirt, ASAP.
Pre-news
Deciding what qualifies as news is a big part of the field of journalism. So, is something that might happen in six years considered news? No.
And yet here we are learning that Roche may sell or close its Genentech South San Francisco facility in 2029.
Medicines For People
Had a lengthy mission statement featured here a couple weeks ago, but this time we can’t knock the verbosity - six words is pretty concise. However, sometimes too simple is also too…how shall we put it…jejune (thanks, GRE vocab study guide):
“We work with humans for humans”
Not a great one any way you look at it, but with no comma or period it doesn’t even sound like it’s trying to be intellectual. It sounds like a weird way to explain the definition of a workplace:
"We have coworkers and bosses"
Speaking of the big boss, he was cooooold for his photo. No one can tell you not to turn up the heat, man.
Fresh2
AnPac Bio-Medical Science doesn't exactly roll of the tongue, so no arguing with a rebrand. But they probably could have done better than "Fresh2". What a perfect name for a cancer diagnostic outfit. We all associate the word fresh with cancer, yes?
They haven't changed the website yet, but it won't be Fresh2 dotcom. That redirects to a lightbulb store on Amazon (who happens to be out of stock).
OTC, baby! (OTC, no baby!)
In a complete shock to pretty much no one whatsoever, an ED drug has gone over-the-counter before birth control pills. The good news on the pill front is an FDA advisory committee just recently voted in favor of OTC status so an approval for that one could come any day now.
While it’s a bit disheartening that an 18 year-old ED therapy reached this milestone before a 50 year-old birth control pill, it looks like good news for 18 year-old women and 50 year-old men.
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