Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
Roche said Tuesday it started testing Actemra (tocilizumab) with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)on top of standard of care in hospitalised adult patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia compared to placebo on top of standard of care.
ObsEva CEO Ernest Loumaye s said the instituting new measures to support the priorities of safety to manage through the COVID-19 pandemic.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is actively and aggressively monitoring the market for any firms marketing products with fraudulent coronavirus (COVID-19) diagnostic, prevention and treatment claims as part of our ongoing efforts to protect public health during this pandemic. As a result of these activities, the agency is beginning to see unauthorized fraudulent test kits that are being marketed to test for COVID-19 in the home.
Teva said it will donate 6 Million tablets through wholesalers to hospitals by March 31, and more than 10 Million within a month, to meet the urgent demand for the medicine as an investigational target to treat COVID-19.
BioNTech SE said Monday its development a potential vaccine to induce immunity and prevent COVID-19 infection in response to the growing global health threat posed by the disease has seen rapid progress. BioNTech’s product candidate, BNT162, is a potential first-in-class mRNA vaccine in the worldwide effort against COVID-19.
John Butler, the President and Chief Executive Officer sent a message about precautions to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19…
The COVID-19 crisis continues to evolve rapidly and in recent days several governments in the markets in which Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (“URW”)…
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American president Donald Trump has announced radical measures last week; closing entering the USA for European citizens, curbing flights in general, and has announced a national emergency. Only two weeks earlier he was skeptical about the outbreak of the coronavirus in the USA.
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