
Collaboration - July 7, 2015
Astra Forms New Partnerships
AstraZeneca is involved in two new projects that focus on heart disease and respiratory illness. The company is partnering with the Montreal Heart Institute, which will search the genomes of up to 80,000 patients for genes associated with cardiovascular diseases and diabetes. AstraZeneca also has reached a new deal with Abbott Laboratories for a diagnostic […]

Uncategorized - February 23, 2015
Research Focusing on Parasites
Research conducted in Norway, Estonia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and likely soon Spain is examining the connection between parasitic infections and allergies and asthma. Professor Cecilie Svanes at the Centre for International Health at the University of Bergen (UiB), noted that German researchers have found antibodies suggesting that 10 to 20 percent of people […]

Acquisition - February 18, 2015
Revenio, Tide Sign Agreement
Revenio Group Corporation has signed a license agreement with Tide Medical Oy for a patented invention to diagnose asthma. The agreement allows Revenio to use this invention to develop and commercialize products related to the screening, diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of asthma. It likelywill take several years before the products become commercially significant for the company. “Our […]

Uncategorized - December 4, 2014
Study: No Link Between Antibiotics, Asthma
According to a new register study in the scientific journal BMJ, researchers at Karolinska Institutet are able to dismiss previous claims that there is a link between the increased use of antibiotics in society and a coinciding rise in childhood asthma. The study includes half a million children and shows that exposure to antibiotics during pregnancy or […]

Uncategorized - November 21, 2013
New findings on genes behind asthma attacks
An international team spearheaded by researchers from the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen have identified the genes that put some children at risk of experiencing severe asthma attacks. “Our results show that asthma attacks requiring young children to be hospitalised are usually genetically related. Genes play a far greater role in […]