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Despite facing significant delays in supplying the European Union with its ordered AstraZeneca (AZ)/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine doses, AZ has said that it is using a large number of doses made via its international supply chain to meet its second-quarter supply commitments with Europe. Read More
The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine showed the same effectiveness for all age groups — including individuals over age 60 — confirmed a new study from Israel that included almost 1.2 million individuals. Read More
Significantly more hospitalized COVID-19 patients aged 70 and up were alive and free of respiratory failure after treatment with GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) investigational monoclonal antibody otilimab in a phase 2 clinical trial, the company said Thursday. Read More
Pfizer and BioNTech have begun assessing the safety and immunogenicity of a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine against the coronavirus’ South African mutation and other potential viral variants. Read More
While access to cardiovascular drugs in lower-income countries has expanded, a significant gap still exists between access afforded to them and the access enjoyed by higher-income nations when it comes to these medications. Read More
As Teva Pharmaceuticals tries to convince the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to reconsider its earlier judgment that it has to pay $235.5 million in damages to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for patent infringement, oral arguments this week left it unclear whether the final decision will be any different. Read More
President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday mandating a review of the U.S. supply chain for critical goods, including materials needed for manufacturing COVID-19 products — fulfilling a promise he made on the campaign trail. Read More
Senate hearings for HHS Secretary nominee Xavier Becerra, California’s attorney general, concluded Wednesday in the Senate Finance Committee, where Becerra was questioned by senators — and at times heatedly by Republican lawmakers — on a range of healthcare issues including drug pricing, drug shortages and intellectual property protections. Read More