Medical

Windtree Therapeutics says a pre-clinical study in ferrets exposed to influenza demonstrated that the company’s aerosolized KL4 surfactant increased survival and reduced lung inflammation, although the increase in survival rate was less than that for… Read more . . .

Prevacus has announced that it plans to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial of its PRV-002 intranasal product for the treatment of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) by the middle of 2017. According to the… Read more . . .

According to Spyryx Biosciences, a Phase 1 study of its SPX-101, an inhaled SPLUNC1-derived peptide that the company is developing for the treatment of cystic fibrosis, showed that the drug was well tolerated, with no… Read more . . .

Noveome Biotherapeutics has announced the publication of promising data from a preclinical study of its ST266 intranasal secretome showing anti-inflammatory activity and retinal ganglion cell (RGC) retention in the optic nerve in a mouse multiple… Read more . . .

GlaxoSmithKline and Innoviva have announced the initiation of a Phase 3 study of a fluticasone furoate/umeclidinium/vilanterol DPI compared to Relvar/Breo Ellipta for the treatment of asthma. GSK recently filed regulatory submissions for the FF/UMEC/VI DPI… Read more . . .

Aradigm Corporation has announced that top-line results from the Phase 3 ORBIT-3 and ORBIT-4 trials of Pulmaquin inhaled ciprofloxacin for the treatment of P. aeruginosa lung infections in patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis (non-CF BE)… Read more . . .

Results from a study of Adherium’s Smartinhaler adherence monitoring system showing a 5-fold reduction in hospitalizations over a one-year period for children with poorly controlled asthma who used the device have been published online by… Read more . . .

Irish science center AMBER (Advanced Materials and BioEngineering Research), located at Trinity College Dublin, has announced that investigator Anne Marie Healy has received a €600,000 grant from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) for… Read more . . .