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Meet molnupiravir, Merck’s Thor-inspired pill that hammers COVID

Enlarge / A Merck sign stands in front of the company’s building on October 2, 2013, in Summit, New Jersey. (credit: Getty | Kena Betancur ) An oral antiviral drug appears to cut the risk of hospitalization and death from COVID-19 by roughly 50 percent in people newly diagnosed with the particular infection and at […]

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It’s the New Year, and pharma companies are already hiking prices for popular drugs

Birthing a drug isn’t easy. It’s an intensive, unpredictable, and enormously stressful endeavor which can dash the hopes of the world’s greatest scientific minds and the patients they seek to serve. Initial clinical trial victories can quickly swerve into cataclysmic failures. But that reality, and the unique nature of the pharmaceutical industry’s life-changing mission, gets […]