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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Missouri Newsletter for Tuesday July 09, 2024 ( 3 items )  

In the Know: Healthcare News for July 8, 2024
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minnesota, July 8 [Category: Medical] -- Medical Alley posted the following news release: Endogenex Raises $88M to Treat Type 2 Diabetes with Electricity Medtronic Among First in Ireland to Deliver Devices Through Drones FDA Approves New Alzheimer's Treatment, Donanemab from Eli Lilly Marsh McLennan Agency Acquires Hudson Shore Group Demand for Magnetic Therapy Prompts Expansion of the Depression Treatment in Minnesota FDA Approves Genentech's Vabysmo Prefilled Syringe (PF  more

LEAH Labs and University of Missouri Launch Trial Funded by National Cancer Institute Aimed at Visualizing CAR-T Cell Therapy in Pet Dogs with Cancer
ST. LOUIS PARK, Minnesota, July 8 [Category: Medical] -- Medical Alley posted the following news release: July 8th, 2024 - MEDICAL ALLEY, MINNESOTA and COLUMBIA, MISSOURI LEAH Labs and University of Missouri have opened enrollment for a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy study in pet dogs funded by the National Cancer Institute (NIH Project Number 3R37CA266344-02S1 awarded to co-Principal Investigators Dr. Wesley Wierson and Dr. Saad Kenderian). The multidisciplinary Dog Oncology G  more

Nearly 90 Percent of Black Homicide Victims Killed With Guns, Study Finds
WASHINGTON, July 9 (TNSres) -- The Violence Policy Center issued the following news release: * * * Missouri has Highest Rate of Black Homicide Victimization in the Nation * * * Guns are by far the most common weapon used to kill Black homicide victims in America according to Black Homicide Victimization in the United States: An Analysis of 2022 Homicide Data, a new study from the Violence Policy Center (VPC). The study shows that in 2022 there were 13,466 Black homicide victims in the United  more