Carilion Clinic

Carilion Clinic to partner with The Blood Connection to support blood product needs for local patients ROANOKE, Va., Nov. 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Carilion Clinic, a not-for-profit integrated health system headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, has partnered with The Blood Connection (TBC) for its blood product needs. This agreement is effective Dec. 31, 2023. TBC is a non-profit 501(c)(3) community blood center and the primary blood provider for more than 120 hospitals in Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia. TBC plans to open donation centers locally and will serve our community though hosting mobile blood drives. Expanding into the Roanoke community will allow TBC to increase donor collection opportunities. With this partnership, blood donors can feel confident knowing their donations are helping our community and neighbors. "Carilion is excited about our new blood services partnership with The Blood Connection," said Carilion President and Chief Operating Officer Steve Arner. "TBC is dedicated to supplying our local blood product needs and being involved in the community. We encourage blood donors to support TBC's future blood drives to help them ensure our region has adequate blood to help us care for our patients." "We are honored to partner with Carilion Clinic to provide these lifesaving blood products to local patients," said Delisa English, President and CEO of TBC. "Local blood donors make the difference in sustaining the community blood supply and preventing blood shortages. All blood products used by patients at Carilion will be provided exclusively by TBC. We will immediately begin efforts to collect blood products in the community and are seeking blood donors and organizations who are willing to support this partnership and the local blood supply by sponsoring blood drives." Despite national blood shortages, TBC has continuously proven to be a reliable and dedicated partner for local hospitals – committing itself to ensuring blood products are readily available through volunteer blood donors. TBC adheres to the same high-quality standards as Carilion and is regulated by the FDA and Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB). Every two seconds, someone in the U.S. needs a blood transfusion while only three percent of the eligible population donates. 4.5 million Americans will be impacted by a blood donation every year. Surgery patients, accident victims, patients with cancer and newborn babies rely on the local blood supply. Although TBC is responsible for keeping the blood supply stable, it cannot replicate blood; it must be donated. TBC urges the community to donate blood to ensure that hospitals needs are uninterrupted. TBC also encourages and welcomes local schools, businesses, churches, and organizations, to be part of the connection as a blood drive host. To learn more about hosting a blood drive, please visit thebloodconnection.org/host. About The Blood Connection Founded in Greenville, SC, The Blood Connection has been committed to saving lives since 1962. TBC is an independently managed, not-for-profit, community blood center that provides blood products to over 120 hospitals within Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Recognized by the U.S. Congress for its dedication to disaster preparedness and the community, TBC works diligently to collect blood from volunteer donors to meet the ever-increasing demand. By keeping collections local, TBC serves hundreds of thousands of patients a year in its communities. TBC is licensed and regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. For more information, visit thebloodconnection.org. About Carilion Clinic Carilion Clinic is a not-for-profit health system serving more than one million people in Virginia and West Virginia regions. Headquartered in Roanoke, Carilion's comprehensive network of hospitals, primary and specialty physician practices and other complementary services deliver high-quality, patient-centered care. Carilion's enduring commitment to the health of our communities has advanced over the last decade but remains grounded in providing care to patients regardless of their ability to pay. Beginning with the transformation to the clinic model of a physician-led, integrated healthcare system, Carilion has developed robust academic partnerships with the creation of the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC and Radford University Carilion's school for allied health sciences. Carilion advances care through education, research and innovation elements and continues to rely on the generous support of donors to advance its mission to improve the health of the communities we serve. Learn more at CarilionClinic.org, and follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube. Contact: Ellen Kirtner, Partnerships & Media Coordinator Phone: (984) 222-1104 Email: [email protected] SOURCE The Blood Connection, Inc.

The goal of nutrition for preterm babies is to replicate the in-utero growth rate, but doing so is difficult. Astarte's goal is to help. Astarte Medical, a clinical intelligence company focused on protocol-driven pediatric care, has partnered with Virginia-based Carilion Children’s Hospital to coordinate care within its neonatal intensive care unit. The goal is to support preterm babies and infants with acute medical conditions with Astarte’s NICUtrition platform, a data analytics tool offering clinicians real-time nutrition and growth-specific data, and ongoing consultations.  Named after the goddess of love, fertility and children, Astarte provides digital solutions to support nutrition and feeding practices across NICU and pediatric care settings. Its cloud-based platform integrates with medical records software and sits within the workflow for clinicians. The platform is built on nine years of patient data to provide a longitudinal assessment of feeding protocol effectiveness, patient risk factors and historical care patterns that positively impact patient outcomes.  The goal of nutrition for preterm babies is to replicate the in-utero growth rate. But achieving this is difficult. As a result, preterm babies are frequently significantly underweight at the time of hospital discharge. Their growth rate can be affected by genetics, medical complications—and inadequate nutrition, Astarte executives argue. Carilion Children’s is the region’s only hospital dedicated to pediatric care, with a Level 1 pediatric trauma center and a 60-bed NICU in Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. With more than 800 admissions annually for 60 beds, Carilion Children’s NICU typically operates at or near capacity. Clinical staff monitor key growth milestones, often by the hour, to determine when babies are healthy enough for feeding or even to be discharged from their stay.  “NICUtrition analyzes patient feeding practices and outcomes in a streamlined manner that eliminates time-consuming, cumbersome information collection by hand,” said Dena Goldberg, Ph.D., R.D.N., a Carilion Children’s dietitian who prepared spreadsheets and then analyzed the data with the help of Carilion statisticians, in a press release. “We eagerly await learning what the platform reveals about how feedings have changed and impacted infant growth and nutrition.” Each hospital has its own protocol for how to see babies. “It’s a very labor-intensive, tedious process,” Astarte co-founder and CEO Tracy Warren told Fierce Healthcare. Low-resourced settings, like community or rural hospitals, may not have the resources to do so. “That creates a huge disparity in the care that’s delivered,” Warren said. Astarte aims to automate this process, running calculations based on a patient’s medical record, age and weight to determine how much and how often to feed a baby. The goal is to reduce variability and track compliance. “Just because you have a guideline doesn’t mean folks necessarily follow it,” Warren said. According to data from St. Bernard’s Healthcare, adherence to protocol had been at 42%. With the Astarte tool, that rose to 52%. It reduced the length of stay by 20 days on average. Astarte’s other clients include Gillette Children’s Hospital (Minnesota), UVA Children’s Hospital (Virginia) and Arkansas Children’s Hospital.  Astarte sells directly to hospitals as software-as-a-service, with pricing built around its promised return on investment (including reduced length of stay and improved clinical outcomes), per Warren. Exact pricing depends on the size of a hospital. In the next 12 to 18 months, Astarte hopes to share outcomes data with payers and create more incentives for value-based contracts. Warren hopes tools like this can uncover patterns in population health, by sorting data by different patient features like race or zip code. “We can start to help hospitals realize if there is any kind of disparity that they want to address,” Warren said.

MELBOURNE, Australia, June 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: TLX, Telix, the Company) today announces that the first patient has been dosed in a Phase II study of the Company's carbonic anhydrase- (CAIX)-targeting PET/CT[1] imaging agent TLX250-CDx (89Zr-DFO-girentuximab), exploring this potential target across a broad range of cancer indications. The STARBURST study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT05563272) is a prospective, open label Phase II "basket" study to investigate CAIX expression in patients with a diverse range of solid tumours – including breast, cervix, colorectal, gastric, esophageal, head and neck, lung, ovarian, pancreatic and vulval cancers[2] – for potential diagnostic and therapeutic applications. CAIX is a protein overexpressed on the surface of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), the cancer target in Telix's highly successful Phase III ZIRCON study.[3] It is also expressed to varying degrees in many other advanced-stage solid tumours with poor prognosis. Tumours that express CAIX are typically hypoxic, more aggressive and feature a tumour micro-environment (TME) that can be resistant to therapy, particularly immunotherapies. STARBURST is exploring these tumour types in the refractory setting to assess whether tumour sites can be targeted, both for imaging and potentially therapeutic purpose. The study builds on encouraging preliminary data from two investigator-initiated studies in triple-negative breast cancer and non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, which demonstrate the potential of TLX250-CDx in these disease settings with unmet medical need. The half-life of 89Zr means that imaging these tumours with TLX250-CDx will enable predictive dosimetry for therapeutic radionuclides, effectively serving as a theranostic "scouting" study for future studies harnessing therapeutic radionuclides. Principal Investigator for the STARBURST study, Dr Jackson Kiser, Medical Director Molecular Imaging at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, Virginia (U.S.) stated, "CAIX is a cancer target that has now been validated in Telix's Phase III ZIRCON study in ccRCC, and so it is very interesting to explore expanding the potential utility of the same investigational agent in a series of other tumour types known to express this important target." Dr Colin Hayward, Telix Chief Medical Officer, said, "Building on the success of ZIRCON and positive preliminary results in investigator-initiated studies of TLX250-CDx in bladder and breast cancer,[4] dosing a first patient in the STARBURST study is a strategically important milestone for Telix. This study will add value and clinical insight to the platform and enable Telix to assess the potential of CAIX as a biomarker as we continue to scout the theranostic potential of targeting CAIX beyond renal cancer. We would like to thank Dr Kiser and his clinical team at Carilion Clinic, as well as the patients who will contribute to the study." About Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited Telix is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development and commercialisation of diagnostic and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals. Telix is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with international operations in the United States, Europe (Belgium and Switzerland), and Japan. Telix is developing a portfolio of clinical-stage products that aims to address significant unmet medical need in oncology and rare diseases. Telix is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: TLX). 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Telix's lead product, gallium-68 (68Ga) gozetotide (also known as 68Ga PSMA-11) injection, has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA),[5] and by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA),[6] and by Health Canada.[7] Telix is also progressing a marketing authorisation application for this investigational candidate in the United Kingdom and the European Union.[8] Telix Investor Relations Ms. Kyahn Williamson Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited SVP Corporate Communications and Investor Relations Email: [email protected] Legal Notices This announcement is not intended as promotion or advertising directed to any healthcare professional or other audience in any country worldwide (including Australia, United States and the United Kingdom). This announcement may include forward-looking statements that relate to anticipated future events, financial performance, plans, strategies or business developments. 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[5] Telix ASX disclosure 20 December 2021. [6] Telix ASX disclosure 2 November 2021. [7] Telix ASX disclosure 14 October 2022. [8] Telix ASX disclosure 3 April 2023. Logo - SOURCE Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited