The coronavirus pandemic is reigniting a fierce debate over compounded drugs

 9 June 2020 - In hopes of alleviating potential drug shortages and other issues wrought by the coronavirus pandemic, the ...

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U.K. lab to sidestep pharma industry to sell potential virus vaccine

7 June 2020 - Imperial College aims to develop a vaccine that is cheaper and easier to manufacture and is forming ...

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The quest for a vaccine could restore faith in big pharma

 4 June 2020 - The boffins of AstraZeneca are showing the way forward ...

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Trump Administration selects five coronavirus vaccine candidates as finalists

3 June 2020 - The Trump administration has selected five companies, including Moderna, AstraZeneca and Pfizer, as the most likely ...

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The Lancet, New England Journal retract COVID-19 studies, including one that raised safety concerns about malaria drugs

4 June 2020 - The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, on Thursday retracted an influential study that ...

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The FDA should not rush a COVID-19 vaccine

2 June 2020 - Vaccines are widely expected to offer the best way out of the COVID-19 pandemic.  ...

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Zoloft falls into shortage as virus anxiety strains supplies

2 June 2020 - Drug makers blame increase in demand and ingredient shortfall. ...

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The CDC waited its entire existence for this moment. What went wrong?

3 June 2020 - Americans returning from China landed at U.S. airports by the thousands in early February, potential carriers ...

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Fauci warns about hydroxychloroquine

27 May 2020 - Top administration expert airs differences with Trump on pandemic response. ...

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‘Vaccine nationalism’: a new dynamic in the race to quash coronavirus

27 May 2020 - International pursuit for a shot is shifting into a contest of which world power can immunise its ...

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Tax payers paid to develop remdesivir but will have no say when Gilead sets the price

27 May 2020 - Critics say government deserves more credit for tens of millions in public money spent to develop coronavirus ...

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First generic version of Gilead’s remdesivir will be sold by a Bangladesh drug maker

22 May 2020 - A drug maker in Bangladesh has become the first company to sell a generic version of ...

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Inside the science: companies racing to develop a COVID-19 vaccine

25 May 2020 - Even as some states move to ease the lockdowns that have cost tens of millions of ...

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WHO pauses trial of hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to safety concerns

26 May 2020 - The World Health Organisation has suspended testing the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients due to ...

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How the world’s premier public health agency was handcuffed

23 May 2020 - The CDC has been absent with leave during the spread of COVID-19. ...

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