05/07/2026 12:00
Altasciences and Certara Announce Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Early Drug Development

Altasciences, a fully integrated drug development solution company, and Certara (Nasdaq: CERT), a global leader in model-informed drug development (MIDD), today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate early-phase development programs. Fewer than half of preclinical drug candidates successfully reach first-in-human trials. Failures are driven by toxicity, poor pharmacokinetics, lack of efficacy, and challenges translating results from animals to humans. Many of these risks can be mitig...

05/07/2026 12:10
PharmaJet® Tropis® Needle-free Injection System Selected to Deliver 1.4 Million Polio Vaccine Doses in Nigeria

PharmaJet, a global leader in needle-free injection technology, today announced that its WHO-prequalified Tropis ID Needle-free Injection System will be used to deliver approximately 1.4 million doses of fractional inactivated polio vaccine (fIPV) during upcoming polio immunization campaigns in Nigeria. PharmaJet is partnering with the African Field Epidemiology Network (AFENET), to deploy Tropis for fIPV delivery to children under 5 years of age in Sokoto, a state in northwestern Nigeria. Thi...

05/07/2026 12:00
2 Million Downloads in Six Months: Tabelog’s Multilingual App Solves Critical Dining Pain Points for Travelers to Japan

Tabelog (https://tabelog.com/en/), one of Japan’s largest (*1) restaurant search and reservation services operated by Kakaku.com, Inc., has announced that its multilingual smartphone app (iOS/Android) for travelers visiting Japan has reached 2 million downloads (*2). This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260507560248/en/2M+ Downloads in 6 Months. The app also ranked #1 in downloads among Restaurant Search Apps in Japan for ...

05/07/2026 12:03
Rapid Medical™’s TIGERTRIEVER™ 13 Demonstrates Promising 90-Day Outcomes in DISTALS Trial, Reinforcing Pivotal Safety and Efficacy Findings

Rapid Medical™, a leading developer of advanced stroke treatment devices, today announced full results from the DISTALS randomized clinical trial, presented at the 11th European Stroke Organisation Conference (ESOC) in Maastricht, Netherlands, showing that TIGERTRIEVER™ 13 can safely restore blood flow to the brain and may improve clinical outcomes in patients with distal and medium vessel occlusion (DMVO) stroke. These findings build on earlier results showing a threefold improvement in restor...

BACKSTORY | Trauma and tragedy in the City of Angels: covering the LA fires

Terrified residents caught in blazing neighbourhoods, influencers ignoring the ban on drones and the frightening unpredictability of the wildfires are just some of what journalists covering the fires ravaging Los Angeles for AFP have had to manage.

Terrified residents caught in blazing neighbourhoods, influencers ignoring the ban on drones and the frightening unpredictability of the wildfires are just some of what journalists covering the fires ravaging Los Angeles for AFP have had to manage.

BACKSTORY │"Like a dream": AFP photographer's return to Syria

AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a tunnel seven years ago after it was besieged by Bashar al-Assad's forces.

AFP photographer Sameer al-Doumy never dreamed he would be able to return to the hometown in Syria that he escaped through a tunnel seven years ago after it was besieged by Bashar al-Assad's forces.
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