US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly's combination of two synthetic antibodies against COVID-19 reduced hospitalizations and deaths by 70 percent in high-risk patients with recent positive tests, the company said Tuesday.
Jan 26, 2021
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The new year has brought the deadliest weeks of the U.S. COVID-19 epidemic thus far, with thousands of deaths every day. It's been several weeks since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued the first of two emergency ...
Jan 25, 2021
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The U.S. pharmaceutical industry has innovated in response to the pandemic, providing not only vaccines but also therapies to treat people with COVID-19. But an outdated law designed to spur development of lifesaving drugs ...
Jan 14, 2021
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With the new year comes another round of prescription drug price hikes, CBS News reported Tuesday.
Jan 7, 2021
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Another day, another announcement about a COVID-19 vaccine. Whether that's talk of results from clinical trials, emergency approval or plans for countries to prioritize certain groups for vaccination.
Dec 18, 2020
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A new method of purifying gentamicin, a widely used antibiotic, reduces the risk that it will cause deafness, according to a Stanford Medicine-led study.
Dec 17, 2020
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Sildenafil and trazodone tablets have been recalled by pharmaceutical distributor AvKARE because the drugs were "inadvertently packaged together" when they were bottled by a third-party vendor, according to the company.
Dec 11, 2020
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A friend of Paul Offit's volunteered for one of the COVID-19 vaccine trials but, like everyone who participated, was not told whether he was injected with a placebo or the real thing.
Dec 8, 2020
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Less than a year after an unknown coronavirus that has claimed 1.4 million lives began spreading across the globe, a number of highly promising COVID-19 vaccines are on the cusp of release.
Nov 26, 2020
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What's a fair price for a drug? How can we make sure more patients have access to the latest treatments? And how can we speed up the whole process of bringing drugs to cancer patients?
Nov 25, 2020
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