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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. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2020
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 May 2020
U.S. is ahead of China in vaccine race, former FDA chief says
24 May 2020 - Data on Chinese vaccines in clinical development “didn’t look overwhelmingly strong,” Scott Gottlieb said. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 May 2020
Drug innovation is back in fashion
21 May 2020 - Big pharma is no longer the villain. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2020
Russia says search for a coronavirus treatment should not be a medical ‘arms race’
14 May 2020 - Russia’s sovereign wealth fund has been funding Russian development and production of the drug favipiravir, an anti-influenza ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 May 2020
Gilead’s remdesivir tested with other drugs to fight COVID-19
13 May 2020 - Researchers are looking to find a more potent coronavirus-fighting cocktail. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 May 2020
COVID-19 update: FDA takes new actions to accelerate development of novel prevention, treatment options for COVID-19
11 May 2020 - Today, the U.S. FDA took important actions to help accelerate the development of prevention and treatment options ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2020
How remdesivir, new hope for COVID-19 patients, was resurrected
4 May 2020 - The drug failed as a treatment for hepatitis and Ebola. With federal funding, scientists trained it on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Apr 2020
The race for coronavirus vaccines: a graphical guide
28 April 2020 - Eight ways in which scientists hope to provide immunity to SARS-CoV-2. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Apr 2020
In race for a coronavirus vaccine, an Oxford group leaps ahead
27 April 2020 - As scientists at the Jenner Institute prepare for mass clinical trials, new tests show their vaccine to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Apr 2020
America needs to win the coronavirus vaccine race
26 April 2020 - Other countries might not be quick to share. Time to speed up trials and ramp up manufacturing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Apr 2020
Bill Gates on how to fight future pandemics
23 April 2020 - The coronavirus will hasten three big medical breakthroughs. That is just a start. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Apr 2020
Prediction models - development, evaluation and clinical application
23 April 2020 - When national lipid guidelines first incorporated a model based on data from the Framingham Heart Study — ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2020
Director of U.S. agency key to vaccine development leaves role suddenly amid coronavirus pandemic
21 April 2020 - Rick Bright, one of the nation’s leading vaccine development experts and the director of the Biomedical ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2020
Coronavirus puts big pharma’s IP regime to the test
21 April 2020 - “Chaotic” is how Jorge Contreras, a law professor at the University of Utah, describes a struggle ...