The FDA has authorized the first test to identify the emerging pathogen Candida auris, which can cause serious infections in hospitalized patients. Specifically, the FDA permitted marketing for a new use of the BRUKER MALDI Biotyper CA system (Bruker Daltonik GmbH) for the identification of C. auris,…
The FDA has approved fostamatinib disodium hexahydrate (Tavalisse, Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) for the treatment of thrombocytopenia in adult patients with chronic immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) who have had an insufficient response to a previous treatment. Fostamatinib is an oral spleen tyrosine kinase…
Many think that a marriage between the tech and health sectors would be a match made in heaven, but so far here on plain old planet Earth, it’s been at most a flirtation. But big tech is doing some health care hiring, so perhaps something real is starting to happen. Stat reported recently…
