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ImmunoGen, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that develops targeted anticancer therapeutics, announced today that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, 8,500,000 shares of its common stock in an underwritten public offering. ImmunoGen expects to grant the underwriters a thirty (30) day option to purchase up to 1,275,000 additional shares to cover over-allotments, if any.
According to a latest study many medical devices recalled in recent years by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) because they posed a high risk to patients were not rigorously studied before being approved for patient use. The study, appearing on the web site of The Archives of Internal Medicine, said that most medical devices that were the subject of high-risk recalls from 2005 to 2009 had been cleared through a regulatory pathway with little testing. This included external heart defibrillators, hospital infusion pumps and mechanical ventilators.
If common anticonvulsant drugs fail to manage epileptic seizures, then perhaps the anti-inflammatory route is the way to go. That's according to Mattia Maroso and colleagues from the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan, Italy, who found that giving mice repeated doses of a specific enzyme inhibitor significantly reduced both chronic epileptic activity and acute seizures.
Low blood levels of immune cells called lymphocytes, in combination with higher levels of inflammation on PET/CT scans, are indicators of active sarcoidosis - an inflammatory disease that attacks multiple organs, particularly the lungs and lymph nodes - which disproportionately affects African Americans.
New questions are at the forefront as a study published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology from nine children's hospitals finds that most asymptomatic children who tested positive for COVID-19 had relatively low levels of the virus compared to symptomatic children.
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