Diabetes is a significant public health crisis. The number of American’s with diabetes is soaring and will soon eclipse 30% of the population. Independent studies find that the vast majority of Type-2 diabetic patients do not achieve recommend A1C levels of less than 7% on insulin therapy. Compliance, complexity of dosing, and discretion of disease…
BrainStorm Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BCLI) is biopharmaceutical company developing adult stem cell-based therapies for a variety of neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis (MS), and Parkinson’s disease (PD). The company’s NurOwn® technology is based on the use of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) that are engineered ex vivo to express increased amount…
The psychiatric community seems on the verge of a medical breakthrough to treat depression, or more specifically, major depression that is resistant to traditional antidepressants like Prozac®, Paxil®, and Zoloft®. The focus is on the NMDA-receptor, and it stems from a recent discovery that ketamine, the psychiatric “party-drug” of the 70’s, is both highly effective…
Safety & Efficacy Tested In 10 Clinical Trials To Date Investors interested in RedHill Biopharma Ltd. (RDHL) are keeping a close watch on three pending catalysts. These include the initiation of the confirmatory Phase 3 program with RHB-105, a potential new standard-of-care for H. pylori infection, interim DSMB analysis from the Phase 3 study with…
The psychiatric community may be on the verge of a paradigm shift when it comes to treating the severely depressed. New treatment options are desperately needed, because what is clear today is that generic antidepressants do not work for many patients. A 2007 report by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) compared the…
A proven late-stage asset for the treatment of inflammatory diseases is worth a lot of money to large pharma-biotech companies. Accordingly, a small biopharma company developing a potential novel approach to treating immune-inflammatory diseases is sitting on a potential goldmine when it comes time to strike a partnership. Examples of recent deals include: One of…
BioSig Technologies, Inc. (BSGM) is a Minnesota-based medical device company developing a proprietary technology platform designed to improve the rapidly growing multi-billion dollar electrophysiology (EP) marketplace. The system is called PURE EP, and it marries together proprietary hardware and advanced signal processing software that improves the signal clarity of cardiac data during an electrophysiology study. PURE EP…
In March 2016, I wrote an article on BioSig Technologies, Inc. (BSGM) and why I believe the company’s electrophysiology recording platform, PURE EP™ System, is positioned to change the market. Investors can read that article >> LINK. A lot has happened since my first article on BioSig came out. The company recently raised cash and…
While its mechanism of action remains unclear, ketamine, which has a moderately high binding affinity for, and can block the activity of, the N-Methyl-D-aspartic acid (NMDA) receptor, is making headlines as a breakthrough in the treatment of depression. Earlier in May 2016, a team of researchers out of the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health…
RedHill Biopharma Ltd (NASDAQ: RDHL) is a specialty pharmaceutical company with a total of eight drugs in various stages of clinical development, three of which are potential blockbuster drug candidates in Phase III for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. In total, RedHill is targeting over a dozen indications, with a core focus on gastrointestinal and…