Vaccination
Pfizer eyes COVID vaccine for all variants before 2023
A COVID-19 vaccine effective against multiple variants is possible before the end of 2022, the head of US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer said Wednesday.
Apr 13, 2022
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News tagged with intellectual property rights
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How the intellectual property monopoly has impeded an effective response to COVID-19
In an interconnected world, a pandemic can be overcome only when it is overcome everywhere—no one is safe until everyone is safe. Vaccination delays and supply shortages in protective equipment and treatments increase the ...
Feb 15, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Early prostate cancers can harbor aggressive tumor cells
Many cases of early prostate cancer are dominated by cells that are slow-growing, often leading to a clinical decision to monitor for progression before initiating treatments that can have adverse side effects.
Jan 19, 2022
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Medications
Supplying COVID-19 pills at lower cost is only part of what poorer countries need
November 2021 marks another grim flashpoint in a stream of them: the global COVID-19 death toll surpassed five million. The rapid development of vaccines has been an extraordinary achievement in the fight against COVID-19. ...
Nov 22, 2021
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Vaccination
Over 700 health experts are calling for urgent action to expand global production of COVID vaccines
Today, we are joining over 700 health professionals and academics in sending an open letter to Prime Minister Scott Morrison urging him to take a leadership role in expanding the global production of COVID-19 vaccines and ...
Apr 29, 2021
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Vaccination
How to get COVID-19 vaccines to poor countries and keep patent benefits for drugmakers
The world has a COVID-19 vaccine access problem: Almost half of all doses administered so far have been in Europe and North America, while many poorer countries have vaccinated less than than 1% of their populations.
Apr 15, 2021
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Vaccination
Countries urge drug companies to share vaccine know-how
In an industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Bangladesh's largest city lies a factory with gleaming new equipment imported from Germany, its immaculate hallways lined with hermetically sealed rooms. It is operating at ...
Mar 1, 2021
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Medications
Intellectual property and COVID-19 medicines: Why a WTO waiver may not be enough
The COVID-19 pandemic, and the race to make vaccines and other useful technologies more accessible to people around the world, has once again highlighted the tension between intellectual property rights and the promotion ...
Feb 24, 2021
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Medications
Waiving IP will not boost vaccine production: pharma group
Exempting COVID-19 vaccines from intellectual property rights will not speed up production or distribution of the jabs, a pharmaceutical industry association said Tuesday.
Feb 23, 2021
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Vaccination
Race for virus vaccine could leave some countries behind
As the race intensifies for a vaccine against the new coronavirus, rich countries are rushing to place advance orders for the inevitably limited supply to guarantee their citizens get immunized first—leaving significant ...
Jun 18, 2020
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