Health Care

TORONTO, June 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vitalhub Corp. (TSX:VHI) (OTCQX:VHIBF) (the “Company” or “VitalHub”) announced today the voting results from its annual general meeting of shareholders held virtually on June 26, 2026. All director nominees were elected to the Company’s board of directors and Ernst & Young LLP was appointed as auditors, as further described in the Company’s management information circular dated May 7, 2026.

WALTHAM, Mass., June 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Crescent Biopharma, Inc. (“Crescent” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: CBIO), a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to rapidly advancing the next wave of therapies for cancer patients, today announced that the independent Compensation Committee of its Board of Directors approved the grant of options to purchase an aggregate of 65,100 shares of the Company’s ordinary shares to three non-executive employees as equity inducement awards under the Crescent Biopharma, Inc. 2025 Employment Inducement Incentive Award Plan, as amended (the “Inducement Plan”). The options were approved on June 25, 2026 and were material to each employee's acceptance of employment with Crescent, in accordance with Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

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Ji'an, Jiangxi, China, June 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Universe Pharmaceuticals INC (NASDAQ: UPC) (“Universe Pharmaceuticals” or the “Company”), a pharmaceutical producer and distributor in China, today announced that the Company has entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire 100% of the issued shares of Best Praise International Limited (“Best Praise”), a company that holds five patents in China with potential applications in pharmaceutical development, for a total purchase price of US$10,751,000, payable in the form of 4,376,552 Class A ordinary shares of the Company.

BALA CYNWYD, Pa., June 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Larimar Therapeutics, Inc. (Larimar) (Nasdaq: LRMR), a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing treatments for complex rare diseases, today announced that the Company will host an investor event to discuss updates for the Company’s nomlabofusp clinical development program including a regulatory update and data from the ongoing long-term open label study for the treatment of Friedreich’s ataxia on Monday, June 29, 2026 at 7:45 am ET.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Ascendis Pharma A/S (Nasdaq: ASND) today announced that the Company has been added to the broad-market Russell 3000^® Index, the large-cap Russell 1000^® Index, the small-to-mid-cap Russell 2500^® Index, and the Russell Midcap^® Index as a part of the 2026 Russell U.S. Indexes semi-annual reconstitution, effective at the close of U.S. equity markets on June 26, 2026.

BEERSE, BELGIUM, June 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Johnson & Johnson today announced new data across 12 abstracts at the European Academy of Neurology (EAN) 2026 Congress that offer additional insight into the use of IMAAVY^®▼(nipocalimab) throughout clinically relevant points in the generalised myasthenia gravis (gMG) treatment journey. The analyses include adults with anti-AChR^a or anti-MuSK^b antibody-positive gMG who were early in their disease course or had lower baseline symptom burden – providing insight into the potential importance of addressing pathogenic immunoglobulin G (IgG) early in disease progression where use of advanced therapies may be less common.^1,2 Additional research to be shared include outcomes shortly after common infections, which are a known cause of disease exacerbations in gMG, and plans to address evidence gaps in the use of nipocalimab during pregnancy.^3,4

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