Enlarge / Scenes like this might become less common if a new SARS-CoV-2 protease inhibitor becomes widely available. (credit: Getty Images ) On Monday, pharmaceutical giant Pfizer released more data on its anti-COVID-19 drug, named Paxlovid. The company} had released its initial data on the drug in early November, and it looked extremely promising : […]
Enlarge / A Merck sign stands in front of the company’s building on October 2, 2013, in Summit, New Jersey. (credit: Getty | Kena Betancur) In a 13-to-10 vote, advisors for the Food and Drug Administration narrowly supported authorizing Merck’s Thor-inspired antiviral pill molnupiravir for use against severe COVID-19. The FDA’s panel of advisors—the Antimicrobial […]
Enlarge / A vial of the current Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. (credit: Getty | Ivan Romano) Researchers have given out the first jabs of a tweaked version of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, one aimed at fighting one of the most concerning coronavirus variants—the B.1.351 variant, first identified in South Africa. The jabs are part of an early […]
Enlarge / A vial of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine is pictured at a coronavirus vaccination centre at the Wanda Metropolitano stadium in Madrid on March 24, 2021. (credit: Getty | Gabriel Bouys) Brushing aside a dramatic rebuke from government researchers and independent experts, AstraZeneca on Wednesday night announced that a new analysis found its COVID-19 vaccine […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty| NurPhoto) A board of independent experts tasked with monitoring the data and safety of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine trial has raised a red flag about the company’s press release yesterday, which trumpeted that the vaccine was 79 percent effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19. In the wee hours of Tuesday, the National Institute of […]
Enlarge / A medical staff member adjusts a ventilator on a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 2, 2020 in Houston, Texas. (credit: Getty | Go Nakamura) An anti-inflammatory arthritis drug called tocilizumab modestly reduces deaths and hospital stays in patients with severe COVID-19, according […]
Enlarge / Vials in front of the AstraZeneca British biopharmaceutical company logo are seen in this creative photo taken on 18 November 2020. (credit: Getty| NurPhoto) Dismal preliminary data on AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine in South Africa—where the B.1.351/ 501Y.V2 coronavirus variant is spreading widely—lead the government there to rethink its vaccination rollout and raised further […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty | SOPA Images) Johnson & Johnson’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine was 72 percent effective at preventing moderate and severe disease in the United States and 85 percent effective at preventing severe disease globally. But the one-shot vaccine struggled to fight off emerging virus variants in other countries, lowering its overall efficacy to 66 […]
Expand / Vials at the front of this AstraZeneca British biopharmaceutical firm emblem are observed within this imaginative photograph taken on 18 November 2020. (charge: Getty| NurPhoto) AstraZeneca declared in a media launch on Monday {} COVID-19 vaccine demonstrated positive benefits in an interim evaluation of clinical trial information. The statement marks the next vaccine […]
Expand / Pfizer headquarters in Manhattan, New York, United States on November 19, 2020. (charge: Getty | Anadolu Agency) Now the US Food and Drug Administration may get its first entry of a candidate vaccine to fight the pandemic coronavirus. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and German biotech company BioNTech declared early that morning {} submitting the […]