Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Relief Therapeutics and NeuroRx have met the 165 patient enrollment target agreed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the ongoing phase 2b/3 trial of RLF-100 (aviptadil) for treating Respiratory Failure in patients with Critical COVID-19.
COVID-19 is the medical emergency of the century. Since the pandemic began in December 2019, the new coronavirus, termed SARS-CoV-2 has caused havoc in almost every country, with more than 40 million proven cases of the disease termed COVID-19, including one million deaths.
The UK has approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, becoming the first country in the world to do so, going ahead of the United States and the EU countries, who expect to bring the decisions on authorization in December.
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) plans to invest approximately $1.2 billion over a 4-year period to expand and upgrade manufacturing capacity and technology for pre-fillable syringes (PFS) and advanced drug delivery systems (ADDS) across its six global manufacturing locations and add a new manufacturing facility in Europe.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi today announced that the European Commission (EC) has extended the marketing authorization for Dupixent (dupilumab) in the European Union (EU) to include children 6 to 11 years of age with severe atopic dermatitis who are candidates for systemic therapy. Dupixent is the only systemic medicine approved in the EU to treat these patients.
The Swansea University Medical School plans a clinical trial with Iota-/kappa-carrageenan nasal spray as a COVID-19 Prophylaxis for Healthcare Professionals (ICE-COVID), to test Marinomed Carragelose nasal and throat spray in reducing the rate, severity, and duration of COVID-19 infections.
F4 Pharma, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing FX06, an anti-inflammatory therapeutic that has shown to improve vascular integrity, has included the first patient with severe COVID-19 in a study named “FX-COVID”, to confirm the efficacy and safety of FX06 in hospitalized patients receiving mechanical ventilation.
Pfizer’s and Biontech’s vaccine candidate for COVID-19 has met all the study’s primary efficacy endpoints.
Pfizer says its vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis
AstraZeneca and MSD’s Lynparza (olaparib) has been approved in the European Union (EU) for the 1st-line maintenance treatment with bevacizumab of patients with homologous recombination deficient (HRD)-positive advanced ovarian cancer.