CORAL GABLES, FL / ACCESSWIRE / March 7, 2019 / The healthcare stock market has gotten off to an impressive start in the first few months of 2019, as companies in the healthcare sector work to pioneer innovative drug treatment options and care solutions for the millions of patients in need. On a near daily basis, headlines detailing a company's new drug approval or a technological breakthrough emerge, indicating to potential investors that they could benefit from paying attention to the healthcare sector. Premier Health Group (OTC: PHGRF) (CSE: PHGI), GTx Inc (NASDAQ: GTXI), Co-Diagnostics Inc (NASDAQ: CODX), and Novavax Inc (NASDAQ: NVAX) represent 4 healthcare companies heating up on Thursday.
Premier Health Group (OTC: PHGRF) (CSE: PHGI) is a focused on developing innovative approaches that combine human skill-based expertise to maintain a healthcare framework which supports the Company's active patient network of over 100,000 patients, with plans to grow that number both domestically and globally.
Premier Health Group (OTC: PHGRF) (CSE: PHGI) announced earlier this week that they are working with NexTech AR Solutions to explore bringing augmented reality technologies to its patient-centric healthcare app. Premier Health will be working with NexTech to develop educational tools for healthcare professionals and patients alike - some of which will be created and commercialized content for third parties. Utilizing AR as a learning tool in training healthcare professionals creates a highly engaging and immersive educational experience which aids in retention and how well complex concepts can be grasped.
Following the announcement, Dr. Essam Hamza, CEO of Premier Health Group (OTC: PHGRF) (CSE: PHGI), stated, "at Premier Health we pride ourselves in being at the forefront of changes in healthcare, so we are thrilled to be a part of the future of healthcare by enabling state of the art technological advancements to our patient-centric telemedicine app. AR has the potential to revolutionize both the access to data and the delivery of healthcare. The technology will help doctors and patients alike - doctors will have access to the latest and most relevant information about their patients while patients can use AR for self-education and improving the quality of treatment they receive."
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GTx Inc (GTXI) and Oncternal Therapeutics Inc, a privately held clinical-stage biotechnology company, today jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which the stockholders of Oncternal would become the majority owners of GTx's outstanding common stock. Following the closing of the agreement, the proposed merger will create a publicly-traded, clinical-stage oncology company.
Following the announcement, Robert J. Wills, Executive Chairman of GTx, said, "following a thorough review of strategic alternatives, we have determined that a reverse merger with Oncternal will enable GTx investors to participate in Oncternal's broader pipeline of oncology opportunities, including product candidates designed to address rare disease indications, and enable the continued development of our first-in-class SARD technology by a company whose leadership has deep experience in developing oncology medicines."
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Co-Diagnostics Inc (CODX), a molecular diagnostics company with a platform for the development of molecular diagnostics tests, today annoyed that its Logix Smart™ ZDC Test has obtained CE mark regulatory clearance to be sold as an in vitro diagnostic for the diagnosis of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya in accepting markets, and is now available for purchase from the Company's Utah-based ISO-13485 facility.
Dwight Egan, CEO of Co-Diagnostics, stated, "receiving the CE mark for our CoPrimer™-based multiplex ZDC assay is the capstone of the design, development, validation, and regulatory approval process, which was completed from start to finish in under 6 months. This highly-specific diagnostic for three harmful diseases at once is possible due to our patented CoPrimer design platform enabling a massive reduction in false positives, which is especially important - but notoriously more difficult - in multiplexed assays of related pathogens.
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Novavax Inc (NVAX) announced results from Prepare™, a global Phase 3 clinical trial using ResVax, an aluminum adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) fusion (F) protein recombinant nanoparticle vaccine at the tail-end of last month. Per the details of the announcement, ResVax is being developed to protect infants via maternal immunization against RSV disease.
Stanley Erck, President, and CEO of Novavax commented, "the potential to prevent these most serious outcomes during infants' most vulnerable months of life could have a profound impact upon the global burden of RSV disease. Our next steps include meeting with U.S. and European regulators to review these data and to discuss the path forward for licensure. We wish to acknowledge and thank the investigators, the Novavax team and the many mothers and their families around the world that participated in this historic trial, bringing the world one step closer to an RSV vaccine."
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