If you’re familiar with Mike Lindell, you almost know him as “the MyPillow man.” That could mean you saw his ads late at night on cable stations playing only sitcom recordings, “the most comfortable pillows you’ll ever have.” It could also mean that you’ve seen headlines like “MyPillow CEO tells …
Read More »Brooks Koepka retires from the Northern Trust, ending his P-20 Tour season 2019-2020
USATSI Brooks Koepka has withdrawn from the Northern Trust due to injury, and ended his 2019-20 PGA Tour season before the start of the FedEx Cup Playoffs. Koepka ranks no. 7 in the official World Golf Rankings, but no. 97 in the FedEx Cup Standings goes to this week’s first …
Read More »How can you make drugs for viruses that do not yet exist?
The SARS-CoV-2 virus took the world by surprise, but by one measure it immediately came on schedule. The first SARS virus was discovered in 2003; the related MERS virus hit in 2012. Today we have COVID-19. In other words, novel coronaviruses like once in decades to make successful leaps to …
Read More »FDA denies approval for potential blockbuster arthritis drugs from Gilead Sciences
The space for oral rheumatoid arthritis treatments will not be quite as full as some might have thought. Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: VALID) told investors on Tuesday that the FDA has issued a full response letter (CRL) denying approval for its drug candidate filgotinib – for now – and handling a …
Read More »Progression report on the coronavirus pandemic
Scientists have crawled to unpick the mechanism that the new coronavirus (green) uses to enter a human cell (orange).Credit: NIAID / National Institutes of Health / Science Photo Library In the space of eight months, the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the disease that causes it, COVID-19, has dominated the work …
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