Japan Formally Approves Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine for Domestic Use
The fast-track approval, made by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, represents a major step forward in Japan’s efforts to bring the pandemic under…
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Minnesota Lab Confirms First U.S. Coronavirus Case Associated with Brazil Variant
Laboratory testing by the Minnesota Department of Health has confirmed the first known COVID-19 case in the United States associated with a more contagious variant…
FDA Committee Votes to Recommend Emergency Use Authorization of Pfizer/BioNTech Coronavirus Vaccine
Reported by Maggie Fox with CNN, the US Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted Thursday to recommend the agency…
AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine Trials to Resume in the United States
According to recent reports, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gave the green light to AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson to resume their respective…
Oxford Vaccine Shows Promise as Phase 2 Mumbai Clinical Trial Wraps Up in India
TrialSite has chronicled the onset of the AstraZeneca Phase 3 trial, investigating what was purportedly one of the frontrunning COVID-19 vaccine candidates known as the…
Atrium Health Helps Pave Path Toward Clinical Research as a Care Option Targeting COVID-19 with Three New Clinical Trials Offering Outpatient Hope
Atrium Health, formerly the Carolinas HealthCare System, has been active on multiple fronts battling COVID-19. The nonprofit network of over 40 hospitals and over 900…
IAVI & Scripps Antibody IP Basis for Global Deal for Equitable Access to Fight COVID-19
A nonprofit scientific research organization known as IAVI, dedicated to addressing urgent unmet global health challenges, has spent years in a research and development partnership…
Volunteer in the AstraZeneca AZD1222 Clinical Trial Dies in Brazil, However, Reports are Death Not Connected to Oxford Vaccine: Trial Apparently to Proceed
Shares of AstraZeneca’s stock declined as a volunteer participating in the Phase 3 clinical trial in Brazil died, reports Brazil’s food and drug regulator Anvisa.…
Temple University Team Works on Developing Algorithms that Can Predict the COVID-19 based Cytokine Storm
Temple University’s Lewis Katz School of Medicine recently published the results of a study that risk stratifies COVID-19 patients—identifying those individuals most at risk of…
UK Government to Proceed with COVID-19 Human Challenge Study Model Sponsored by Imperial College London
The UK government has commenced its first human challenge studies targeting COVID-19. Much like as occurred in places like China and Russia, healthy volunteers are…