Childhood Stress Can Make You Ill as an Adult

Prolonged stress can have life-threatening consequences not only for adults but also for children. Research shows adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) can predispose them to any number of health problems later in life. In the early days of mankind’s evolution, the stress response saved our lives by enabling us to run from predators or take down… Read More »

NLS Pharmaceutics Ltd. Announces Pricing of $20.0 Million Initial Public Offering

STANS, Switzerland – January 29 2021 – NLS Pharmaceutics Ltd. (Nasdaq: NLSP, NLSPW) (“NLS” or the “Company”), a Swiss clinical-stage pharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of innovative therapies for patients with rare and complex central nervous system disorders, announces the pricing of its initial public offering of 4,819,277 units at a price… Read More »

Rockley Photonics, a leading integrated silicon photonic solution provider, closes additional $65 million to accelerate growth

Oxford, UK and Pasadena, California, 29 January 2021 – Rockley Photonics, a leading integrated optics solutions provider, today announced that it has closed an additional $ 65m round of growth capital from both new private funds and follow-on existing investor Morningside Ventures. To date, Rockley has raised over $ 290m of financing to develop its… Read More »

New ethical obligations for researchers in places where existing HIV prevention services are inadequate

A full package of effective prevention interventions, up to international standards, must be offered to people taking part in HIV prevention trials, say UNAIDS and WHO in new guidance issued this week. This means that if researchers want to run a study in a country in which PrEP is not routinely available, they must find… Read More »