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AstraZeneca pledges to manufacture 30m units of Oxford University’s COVID-19 vaccine

May 19, 2020
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AstraZeneca has provided an update on the partnership it forged with the University of Oxford in late April to push …

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US threatens to permanently cut off WHO funding

May 19, 2020
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The US has threatened to permanently cut off funding to the World Health Organization if they do not take proposed …

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Trump signs deal with generics company Phlow Corp to help shift drug manufacturing to the US

May 19, 2020
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The Trump administration will sign a $354 million deal with the generics company Phlow Corp to help produce medicines and …

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Trump claims he is taking hydroxychloroquine to prevent contracting COVID-19

May 19, 2020
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President Donald Trump told reporters last night that he is taking the drug hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19, despite US …

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Judge rejects Martin Shkreli’s prison release request to work on COVID-19 therapy

May 18, 2020
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Notorious incarcerated ex-pharma CEO Martin Shkreli has his request rejected to be released from prison in order to research a …

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New study on COVID-19 immune response shows promise for vaccine development

May 18, 2020
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Researchers at the labs of Dr Alessandro Sette and Dr Shane Crotty at California’s La Jolla Institute for Immunology have …

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White House announces Dr Moncef Slaoui, the former head of GSK’s vaccine division, as the co-leader of Operation Warp Speed

May 18, 2020
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President Donald Trump has announced that Dr Moncef Slaoui, the former head of GlaxoSmithKline’s vaccine division, will head up Operation …

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Trump announces ‘Operation Warp Speed’ to develop a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year

May 18, 2020
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President Trump has announced a task force to quickly develop a vaccine for the US, titled Operation Warp Speed. Explaining …

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Sanofi backtracks on promise of shipping COVID-19 vaccine to the US first

May 18, 2020
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Sanofi has backtracked on comments it made last week, where the company’s CEO said the US would get priority when …

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Ex-BARDA chief warns of ‘darkest’ US winter in modern history due to COVID-19

May 18, 2020
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The former head of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has warned that due to the US’s handling …

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Genentech’s retiring R&D head to be replaced by MIT executive

May 15, 2020
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Michael Varney, industry veteran and Head of Research & Development at Genentech, has announced he is to leave the role …

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Debra Feldman announced as Vice President, Head of Regulatory at Dyne Therapeutics

May 15, 2020
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Dyne Therapeutics has announced the appointment of Debra Feldman as their new Vice President, Head of Regulatory. Feldman said on …

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Abbott’s COVID-19 test, used at the White House, fails to identify up to 48% of positive cases, study argues

May 15, 2020
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Abbott’s 13-minute ID NOW COVID-19 testing kits have come under scrutiny after a study from New York University (NYU) revealed …

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NIH will launch clinical trial testing hydroxychloroquine in combination with azithromycin as a COVID-19 treatment

May 15, 2020
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The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) said it is launching a clinical trial testing hydroxychloroquine in combination with azithromycin …

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A quarter of English COVID-19 deaths in hospitals were diabetics

May 15, 2020
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The NHS’s first data breakdown of underlying health conditions in COVID-19 fatalities has shown that 1 in 4 deaths in …

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Top Ten most popular articles on Pharmafile.com this week

May 15, 2020
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The news this week continues to be dominated by COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, with the NIAID announcing the launch of …

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Korean researchers find drug that is more effective in treating COVID-19 than remdesivir

May 15, 2020
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A research team at the Institut Pasteur Korea have identified a drug that appears to be more effective in treating …

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100% of multiple myeloma patients respond to Janssen’s investigational CAR T therapy, data shows

May 14, 2020
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Janssen has revealed new Phase1b/2 findings of the efficacy of its investigational B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA)-directed chimeric antigen receptor T cell …

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French based Sanofi will ship COVID-19 vaccine to the US first

May 14, 2020
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French based pharmaceutical company Sanofi has announced it will ship its COVID-19 vaccine that is in development to the US …

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African countries see surge in fake coronavirus treatments

May 14, 2020
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Counterfeit drugs that are falsely advertised to treat coronavirus have seen a surge in sales in parts of Africa. In …

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