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Innovative filtration technologies to shoulder responsibility for pharmaceuticals
Akshita Pacholi outlines why the filtration market is so important to the pharmaceutical industry and discusses its predicted growth in the near future.
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EMA and HMA publish joint strategy on medicine regulation for next five years
The EMA and HMA have published their joint strategy for the next five years, detailing how the regulatory network can continue the supply of safe and effective medicines.
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Positive top line data released for study of C21 in COVID-19 patients
In hospitalised COVID-19 patients, researchers found that C21 reduced the risk of needing oxygen at the end of treatment by 40 percent.
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AZD1222 vaccine for COVID-19 is safe and effective in Phase III trials
Interim analysis shows AZD1222 vaccine is effective at preventing COVID-19, with no severe cases or hospitalisations reported more than 21 days after first injection.
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Supply chain challenges cause Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine production target to be slashed
Pfizer spokesperson reveals supply chain challenges and late clinical trial results contributed to its COVID-19 vaccine production target for 2020 being halved.
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Report finds UK Vaccine Taskforce worked “decisively” in fight against COVID-19
An independent review has outlined the achievements of the UK's Vaccine Taskforce, finding it worked "at great pace" to bring a COVID-19 vaccine to patients.
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Could newborn stem cells revolutionise cell therapies?
In this article, Dr Jaime Shamonki, Generate Life Science’s CMO, discusses how newborn stem cells derived from umbilical cord tissue could make mesenchymal stem cells less expensive and variable to produce.
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First person receives Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in UK
A 90-year old woman is the first person to receive BNT162b2, the Pfizer and BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, outside of clinical trials.
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COVID-19 S-Trimer vaccine candidates show promise in early trials
When adjuvanted with GSK’s pandemic adjuvant system, the S-Trimer vaccine candidates induced the production of neutralising antibodies in all trial participants.
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Hackers target COVID-19 vaccine cold chain, IBM finds
A group of hackers has sent phishing emails to various people involved in COVID-19 vaccine cold chain distribution to gain insight, IBM has revealed.
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Contributing to ACT Accelerator could generate $466 billion for major economies, says Eurasia Group report
The report found that the 10 major economies could see a return of more than $466 billion by 2025, 12 times the total estimated cost of supporting the WHO’s Access to COVID-19 Tools (ACT) Accelerator.
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Metformin associated with reduced COVID-19 death risk in women, study shows
Researchers have found that women taking metformin prior to hospitalisation had a significantly reduced risk of death from COVID-19.
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Consistent data matters: lessons from the pandemic and the case for accelerating IDMP adoption
As ISO IDMP data standards gradually progress to implementation in Europe, Lise Stevens asks what bearing they might have had in the context of the global COVID-19 crisis.
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EMA begins rolling review of Janssen’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate
The European Medicines Agency's CHMP has started a rolling review of Ad26.COV2.S, Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine.
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COVID-19 vaccines may be less effective for racial minorities, suggest computer scientists
New research suggests that adding extra COVID-19 peptides to a dose of vaccine could increase effectiveness in populations that may not respond robustly to COVID-19 vaccines.
