Wasting

WTA Foundation and Gates Foundation launch new campaign—Women Change the Game—to urge action on women’s health and nutrition

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Friday, March 8, 2024

A key component of the campaign is the first-of-its-kind WTA Foundation Global Women’s Health Fund.

Key Points: 
  • A key component of the campaign is the first-of-its-kind WTA Foundation Global Women’s Health Fund.
  • “It is unacceptable that so many women and girls don’t have access to adequate nutrition and basic care,” said Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
  • “The WTA Foundation was founded on the idea of equal opportunity, and that’s exactly what Women Change the Game is about.
  • For more information about Women Change the Game and the WTA Foundation’s Global Women’s Health Fund, visit www.womenchangethegame.com .

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Initiates Phase 1/2a Study of ARO-DM1 for Treatment of Type 1 Myotonic Dystrophy

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Friday, March 8, 2024

Patients with DM1 have muscle weakness and wasting, myotonia, cataracts, and often develop cardiac conduction abnormalities.

Key Points: 
  • Patients with DM1 have muscle weakness and wasting, myotonia, cataracts, and often develop cardiac conduction abnormalities.
  • Pathogenesis of DM1 is driven by an expanded CUG trinucleotide repeat in the 3’-untranslated region of DMPK transcripts.
  • These abnormal transcripts cause mis-regulated splicing, known as spliceopathy, for certain messenger RNAs which are directly linked to the clinical manifestations of DM1.
  • Presentation materials may be accessed on the Events and Presentations page under the Investors section of the Arrowhead website.

Eleanor Crook Foundation and Helen Keller Intl Announce Partnership with Senegal's Ministry of Health to Combat Child Wasting

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Tuesday, January 30, 2024

WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Senegalese Ministry of Health, the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF), and Helen Keller Intl have embarked on a new $4 million initiative to significantly reduce child malnutrition in Senegal.

Key Points: 
  • WASHINGTON, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Senegalese Ministry of Health, the Eleanor Crook Foundation (ECF), and Helen Keller Intl have embarked on a new $4 million initiative to significantly reduce child malnutrition in Senegal.
  • Wasting causes the deaths of millions of children worldwide, and those who survive face significant threats to their long-term health.
  • In recent years, Senegal has made great progress on child stunting, a condition caused by malnutrition that results in slow growth and developmental delays – but unfortunately, progress on child wasting has plateaued.
  • Helen Keller Intl greatly appreciates the Eleanor Crook Foundation's invaluable support and the leadership of the Government of Senegal to advance this lifesaving work."

Tan Delta Systems offers to help global industry save over 12 billion litres of oil a year

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Saturday, December 30, 2023

SHEFFIELD, England, Dec. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As the new year approaches, Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems, is offering to help global industry save around 12 billion litres of oil per year – by simply deploying existing technology. With a return on investment of just a few months, advanced real time oil analysis technology – if deployed globally – could reduce oil usage in industrial lubrication applications by 30% and reduce CO2 emissions by 35.7 million tons every year. That's the equivalent of removing 1.5 million cars from the road.

Key Points: 
  • As the new year approaches, Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems, is offering to help global industry save around 12 billion litres of oil per year – by simply deploying existing technology.
  • SHEFFIELD, England, Dec. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- As the new year approaches, Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems, is offering to help global industry save around 12 billion litres of oil per year – by simply deploying existing technology.
  • Oil used for lubrication of machines, from ships, planes and cranes to robots, generators, trucks and cars – electric cars included – consume over 40 billion litres of oil each and every year.
  • The average dump truck has 100 litres of oil, an excavator 200 litres and an average wind turbine holds up to 600 litres.

Brightseed Receives $1.6 Million Grant to Improve Birth Outcomes by Supporting Undernourished Pregnant and Nursing Mothers

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Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Bioactives company Brightseed today announces its second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .

Key Points: 
  • Bioactives company Brightseed today announces its second grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .
  • Brightseed will use the $1.6 million funding to focus its artificial intelligence (AI) technology, Forager® , on identifying and validating natural bioactive compounds that target environmental enteric dysfunction (EED) in undernourished pregnant and lactating women, ultimately impacting global birth and infant outcomes.
  • EED is a poorly understood condition caused in part by micronutrient deficiencies, undernutrition, certain gut infections, and abnormal gut microbiota.
  • The project will ultimately result in candidate clinically effective nutritional products and potential therapeutics to support gut health in pregnant and lactating mothers in order to improve birth outcomes.

ExGCOO announces its entry into the Thai market, aiming to create a competitive advantage in trading fees

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023

SACRAMENTO, CA, Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The renowned securities service platform, ExGCOO, recently announced its official entry into the Thai market and plans to maintain a competitive edge in trading fees to gain market share.

Key Points: 
  • SACRAMENTO, CA, Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The renowned securities service platform, ExGCOO, recently announced its official entry into the Thai market and plans to maintain a competitive edge in trading fees to gain market share.
  • ExGCOO is a comprehensive software that provides stock data for most countries worldwide and offers various technical indicators.
  • It has gained a large user base globally due to its user-friendly interface and outstanding performance.
  • ExGCOO's interface design is simple, clear, and easy to use
    Users can easily find the stock information and trading functions they need without wasting much time exploring.

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Files for Regulatory Clearance to Initiate Phase 1/2a Study of ARO-DM1 for Type 1 Myotonic Dystrophy

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that it has filed an application for clearance to initiate a Phase 1/2a clinical trial of ARO-DM1, the company’s investigational RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic being developed as a potential treatment for type 1 myotonic dystrophy (DM1), the most common adult-onset muscular dystrophy.

Key Points: 
  • Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NASDAQ: ARWR) today announced that it has filed an application for clearance to initiate a Phase 1/2a clinical trial of ARO-DM1, the company’s investigational RNA interference (RNAi) therapeutic being developed as a potential treatment for type 1 myotonic dystrophy (DM1), the most common adult-onset muscular dystrophy.
  • ARO-DM1 is designed to reduce expression of the dystrophia myotonica protein kinase (DMPK) gene.
  • Treatments have focused on symptomatic management, including physical therapy, exercise, ankle-foot orthoses, wheelchairs, and other assistive devices.
  • Pending clearance, Arrowhead intends to proceed with ARODM1-1001, a Phase 1/2a dose-escalating study to evaluate the safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of ARO-DM1 in up to 48 subjects with DM1.

Tan Delta Systems launches SENSE-2, a new real-time oil monitoring system to significantly reduce operating costs for the manufacturing, machinery and lubrication sector

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

LONDON, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems is leading the way within the manufacturing and lubrication sector with the launch of SENSE-2.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems is leading the way within the manufacturing and lubrication sector with the launch of SENSE-2.
  • The new oil condition monitoring kit provides real-time data about machine oil quality to optimise maintenance and reduce operating costs.
  • It can be fitted easily and efficiently to any existing equipment in any application and is configurable to any oil type.
  • For more information on Tan Delta's SENSE-2 Display Kit and Tan Delta's MOT kit and how they can benefit your business, please visit www.tandeltasystems.com .

Tan Delta Systems launches SENSE-2, a new real-time oil monitoring system to significantly reduce operating costs for the manufacturing, machinery and lubrication sector

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, November 16, 2023

LONDON, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems is leading the way within the manufacturing and lubrication sector with the launch of SENSE-2.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, Nov. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tan Delta Systems, a manufacturer of real-time oil quality monitoring sensors and systems is leading the way within the manufacturing and lubrication sector with the launch of SENSE-2.
  • The new oil condition monitoring kit provides real-time data about machine oil quality to optimise maintenance and reduce operating costs.
  • It can be fitted easily and efficiently to any existing equipment in any application and is configurable to any oil type.
  • For more information on Tan Delta's SENSE-2 Display Kit and Tan Delta's MOT kit and how they can benefit your business, please visit www.tandeltasystems.com .

Defying Expectations, New Research from Axonius Shows IT and Security Teams Saw Increased Budget, Headcount in 2023

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Wednesday, November 8, 2023

” Of the key findings, the most surprising found that IT and security teams saw increases to their budget and headcount, despite the economic headwinds organizations faced heading into 2023.

Key Points: 
  • ” Of the key findings, the most surprising found that IT and security teams saw increases to their budget and headcount, despite the economic headwinds organizations faced heading into 2023.
  • In fact, three-quarters (74%) of IT and security decision makers said their organization’s IT or security budget increased compared to the year prior, and nearly two-thirds (63%) said their organization’s IT or security team headcount increased.
  • “Cybersecurity is critical, even in times of economic uncertainty – as clearly evidenced by our research,” said Dean Sysman, CEO and Co-founder at Axonius.
  • You can also visit the Axonius website or request a demo to learn more about how we’re helping IT and security leaders optimize their resources.