Oncoustics raises $5.5m for 'virtual biopsy' AI platform

Digital health startup Oncoustics has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to develop an artificial intelligence-powered technology that will be used to spot and diagnose liver diseases from

FDA knocks back Mallinckrodt's kidney drug terlipressin

Manufacturing problems seem to have scuppered Mallinckrodt's hopes of bringing the first approved drug to market in the US for hepatorenal syndrome (HRS), a life-threatening condition that

Mallinckrodt’s liver disease drug terlipressin edges FDA adv...

An FDA advisory committee has narrowly voted in favour of approval of Mallinckrodt’s terlipressin for hepatorenal syndrome type 1 (HRS-1), after the agency questioned the findi

COVID-19 and vulnerable children: Urging caution while enjoy...

How do you keep a child with a suppressed immune system safe during COVID-19 lockdown? And how do you explain the dangers while protecting their – and your own – mental health?

Q&A: Novartis’ Eric Hughes on transplantation

With approximately 3.2 million people worldwide living with end-stage renal disease, there is immense pressure on healthcare systems with long waiting lists for kidney and liver transplants

Conatus axes staff after latest failure of Novartis-partnere...