Text size Jeenah Moon / Getty Images Pfizer hopes to get emergency food authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its Covid-19 vaccine, produced in collaboration with BioNTech, in October – a timeline that is possible, and not the only positive for the biotech industry, according to a Mizuho …
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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 …
Read More »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 …
Read More »Here is the ethical issue for targeting volunteers with COVID-19 to accelerate a vaccine
Despite the urgency of beating COVID-19, health officials may delay the development of an effective vaccine. Authorities in the U.S. and elsewhere have yet to authorize an ethical charge investigation procedure called “trials with human challenge.” Challenge tests deliberately involve volunteers with the disease – which explains the official retention …
Read More »AstraZeneca reports strong gains and progress from the vaccine. The stock is going up.
Text size fake pictures Shares of AstraZeneca rose on Thursday as new drug sales helped the British pharmaceutical giant exceed expectations in the second quarter. Late-stage trials for its experimental coronavirus vaccine, developed with the University of Oxford, have also begun in the UK, Brazil and South Africa, the company …
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