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For Covid-19 vaccine, J&J plans 60,000 subject pivotal trial

Johnson & Johnson plans to launch in late September what may be the largest clinical trial to date against a coronavirus vaccine, enrolling up to 60,000 people worldwide to test whether the experimental shot safely protects against Covid-19. The targeted enrollment, reported on a government database and confirmed by the …

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Get your flu in September – before cases start to climb

Reuters With the coronavirus still widespread, it’s time to start thinking seriously about flu, which typically spreads in fall and winter. A major flu outbreak would not only overwhelm hospitals this fall and winter, but also likely overwhelm a person who can contract both at the same time. Doctors do …

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Potential Gilead blockbusters rejected by FDA. Why that’s the ‘Near-Worst-Case Scenario’ for Gilead Stock.

Text size The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday rejected Gilead Science’s application for a will-be blockbuster arthritis medicine, blind investors. One analyst called the development a ‘near-worst-case scenario’ and a ‘shock’. Dreamstime The Food and Drug Administration’s decision to deny Gilead Science’s application for a wild medicine for blockbuster …

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