Tag: COVID-19

July 14, 2022

On Wednesday, Novavax’s offering was the latest to receive emergency use approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Advisors to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will meet next week to decide who should be eligible for […]

July 13, 2022

Infectious disease experts from Asia reviewed data from the VIEW-hub database on vaccine use and impact, developed by John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the International Vaccine Access Center. The findings from the study were reported by Expert […]

July 7, 2022

Under the revision, state-licensed pharmacists will be able to prescribe the drug to patients testing positive for COVID-19, on the condition that they can provide recent health records and a list of current medicines they are taking. As outlined in […]

July 7, 2022

When COVID-19 first emerged, scientists cautioned that developing an effective and safe vaccine could take longer than the commonly estimated figure of a year. The reason for the caution was that the previous quickest turnaround of a vaccine was for […]

July 5, 2022

Researchers have created an inhalable COVID-19 vaccine that is shelf stable at room temperature for up to three months, targets the lungs specifically and effectively, and allows for self-administration via an inhaler. The researchers also found that the delivery mechanism […]

July 4, 2022

The UK government has made an additional £175 million ($212 million) in funding available for its push to make the country a go-to location for clinical research, adding to £200 million promised in March to strengthen the national data infrastructure. […]

June 22, 2022

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, people around the world were comparing the new disease with the flu, also known as influenza. However, while both diseases cause respiratory symptoms, it soon became very clear that there are some important […]

June 21, 2022

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has begun a rolling review of the Spikevax vaccine that has been adapted to protect against two variant strains of SARS-CoV-2, the agency announced on June 17, 2022. The review will focus on non-clinical laboratory […]

May 23, 2022

Six weeks after slapping a clinical hold on a trial of Ocugen’s COVID-19 vaccine, the FDA has lifted it. That’s the good news for the Malvern, Pa. company, which has partnered with India’s Bharat Biotech on the shot known commercially […]

May 17, 2022

A single booster dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine can be given to 5- to 11-year-olds, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today. The third shot can be given at least five months after healthy kids complete the two-dose […]

May 16, 2022

Nothing could make the benefits of vaccination easier to understand than the recent COVID-19 pandemic and its catastrophic effects. However, when it comes to vaccinating children and teenagers, many people around the world showed reluctance due to the potential negative […]

May 3, 2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning Americans to watch out for phony at-home, over-the-counter COVID-19 tests that look a lot like the real things. The counterfeit test kits may put you at risk of unknowingly spreading the disease […]

May 2, 2022

In the midst of new emerging therapy projects under development, the progress of innovative manufacturing technologies is also growing. One of the newest emerging platforms for biologics manufacturing is the plant made pharmaceutical platform (PMP). PMP has come on-stage recently […]

April 26, 2022

Even though most people in the U.S. have been eligible for COVID-19 vaccines and boosters for quite some time, children under 5 still don’t have vaccine options. Now, lawmakers are asking the FDA to lay out its plans in this […]

April 26, 2022

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today submitted an application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of a 10-µg booster dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for children 5 through […]

April 25, 2022

Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration expanded the approval of the COVID-19 treatment Veklury (remdesivir) to include pediatric patients 28 days of age and older weighing at least 3 kilograms (about 7 pounds) with positive results of direct SARS-CoV-2 […]

April 15, 2022

As supplies of COVID-19 vaccines have become more plentiful in poor nations, many are tuning down certain shipments. A document from the World Health Organization’s global vaccine supply effort COVAX shows that low-income countries have declined millions of doses of […]

April 14, 2022

Just as Regeneron’s COVID-19 antibody combination, REGEN-COV, is sidelined in the U.S. thanks to omicron, the drug has hit a hiccup on its quest for a full FDA nod. The FDA has extended the review of REGEN-COV by three months […]

April 8, 2022

More than two years have now passed since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic—an epidemic that turned into the most serious healthcare crisis in modern history. According to Johns Hopkins University, 6.16 million people have lost their lives to the […]

April 5, 2022

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Nowcast data from April 5, 2022, estimates that the proportion of COVID-19 cases caused by the Omicron BA.2 variant is above 50% in all Health and Human Services (HHS) U.S. regions. Data […]