Health and Fitness

Berlin, June 3, 2022, – Bayer will present new renal and cardiovascular data from the comprehensive Kerendia™ (finerenone) clinical trial program at the 2022 American Diabetes Association (ADA) 82nd Scientific Sessions. This new data will comprise of further insights from FIDELITY, including late-breaking data from a new post-hoc analysis, as well as retrospective findings from …

Bayer to present new Kerendia™ (finerenone) data from comprehensive clinical trial program across a broad range of patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes Read More »

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 31, 2022 – BlueRock Therapeutics LP, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Bayer AG, announced the completion of enrollment of its Phase 1 (Ph1), open-label trial of pluripotent stem cell-derived dopaminergic neurons in patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD). The purpose of the Ph1 clinical trial is to evaluate the …

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Monheim, Germany, May 24, 2022 – Joining like-minded companies in the private sector, Bayer has signed the Zero Hunger Private Sector Pledge with a 160 million U.S. dollar commitment dedicated to help end global hunger. The Pledge, in the context of the UN Food Systems Summit of 2021 and as a part of the Summit’s …

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Berlin, May 23, 2022 – Two studies with Bayer´s Factor Xa inhibitor rivaroxaban (Xarelto), the Long-Term Open Label Extension (LTOLE) of the COMPASS trial and the XATOA registry, provide complementary evidence of the benefits of dual pathway inhibition (DPI), defined as the combination of the vascular dose of Xarelto(2.5 mg twice daily) and aspirin. The …

Two large Xarelto™ studies support effectiveness of dual pathway inhibition in patients with coronary artery disease and/or peripheral artery disease Read More »

Berlin, May 23, 2022 – Late-breaking data from an exploratory post hoc analysis from FIDELITY, a prespecified pooled analysis of the Phase III FIDELIO-DKD and FIGARO-DKD trials, reinforce the renal and cardiovascular (CV) benefits of Kerendia (finerenone), a non-steroidal, selective mineralocorticoid receptor (MR) antagonist. Data from the analysis indicate that compared to placebo, Kerendia consistently …

New data support renal and cardiovascular benefits of Kerendia™ (finerenone) in patients with and without history of left ventricular hypertrophy and chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes Read More »

Let’s face it: Kids are microbe magnets. They also like to share. These tiny humans don’t enter the world knowing that spraying a sneeze into your face or wiping their runny noses and then putting their grubby little hands into their mouths are a big “No-no.” But they can learn from you. “Kids mirror the …

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July 13, 2023 – The FDA’s approval today of the first birth control pill for women to be available without a prescription is being hailed by many as a long-needed development, but there remain questions to be resolved, including how much the drug will cost and how it will be used.   The drug, Opill, …

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by Dr. Dipesh Navsaria, American Academy of Pediatrics Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain How your child reacts to your pet’s death will depend on their age and developmental level. When children display emotions like sadness, it’s important to validate them. During my own childhood, I remember when a pet died, my well-meaning mother told me I …

Ask the Pediatrician: When a pet dies, how do I help my child cope? Read More »

How much would these robo-boots be worth to you? Credit: Neurobionic Lab/University of Michigan Robotics Department, CC BY-ND My colleagues and I have used a tool from economics to measure the costs and benefits of wearing an exoskeleton, and we found that it offers a modest average benefit of US$3.40 per hour while walking uphill, …

Putting a price on exoskeleton assistance puts users in the driver’s seat of honing the tech Read More »

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Nieltje Gedney was half-asleep in her West Virginia home, watching murder mysteries over the hum of a bedside hemodialysis machine, when she felt something warm and wet in her armpit. A needle inserted into her arm had fallen loose, breaking a circuit that the machine used to clean her blood. It …

Rare dialysis complication can kill, and more could be done to stop it Read More »