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Environmental groups are calling for third-party oversight at Baltimore’s Patapsco Wastewater Treatment Plant after an inspection conducted last week found continuing equipment problems resulting in high levels of bacteria and nutrients released into the river. It comes a few weeks after the Maryland Environmental Service took charge of Baltimore’s other wastewater facility, located along the …

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center became the first hospital in the state last week to use new Shockwave technology to open a patient’s blocked coronary artery, according to a statement from the center. The patient’s artery was blocked with calcified plaque. The new technology fractured the calcium with sonic pressure waves, according to Dr. Abdur Khan, …

Columbia Pacific CCO, part of the CareOregon family of companies, has announced investing $536,533 in grants to programs that help meet the growing demand for mental health care and substance use disorder treatment in Columbia, Tillamook and Clatsop counties. The grants are part of the more than $1.5 million that Columbia Pacific invested in 2021 …

TakeAir LONDON, March 01, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — TakeAir, a Belgian biotechnology firm specialising in indoor air quality improvement, has announced ground-breaking new Biospheric Air Treatment technology that kills airborne viruses (e.g. COVID-19) in buildings. Under an agreement with CBRE Investment Management, TakeAir’s technology will be carefully assessed as part of a research programme at …

MONROVIA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Xencor, Inc. (NASDAQ: XNCR), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing engineered monoclonal antibodies and cytokines for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) for sotrovimab (previously VIR-7831), an XmAb®-engineered antibody developed by Vir Biotechnology, Inc. (Vir) and …

Posted: May 26, 2021 / 10:24 AM EDT / Updated: May 26, 2021 / 10:24 AM EDT CENTRAL NEW YORK, N.Y. (WSYR–TV) — Heart Disease is the leading cause of death and when you zero in on women’s heart health, the statistics are staggering. In this week’s Wellness Wednesday, a cardiologist with the Syracuse American …

Dublin, May 05, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The “Tertiary Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies Market by Type (Membrane Filtration, UV Radiation, Chlorination, Ozonization, Activated Carbon, and Ion Exchange), and Application (Municipal and Industrial) – Global Forecast to 2027” report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com’s offering. This report provides an in-depth analysis of the tertiary water …

Henry Ford Health System announced Thursday, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), that it is boosting access to monoclonal antibody therapy in southeast Michigan. The Michigan-based health system said monoclonal antibody therapy is promising treatment that has been shown to keep high-risk COVID-19 patients out of the hospital. From …

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), the leading RNAi therapeutics company, announced today positive interim results from the ongoing Phase 1 study of ALN-AGT, a subcutaneous investigational RNAi therapeutic targeting liver-expressed angiotensinogen (AGT) for the treatment of hypertension. Results were presented during a late-breaking oral presentation at the 2021 Joint Meeting of the European …

Neuroendocrine tumors are cancers that begin in specialized cells called neuroendocrine cells. These cells have traits similar to those of nerve cells and hormone-producing cells. Neuroendocrine tumors, while rare, can occur anywhere in the body. Most affect the cardiothoracic region, eg lungs, appendix, small intestine, pancreas as well as the rectum. There are many types …