Vaccine development becomes reality TV. Can it make viewers rethink pharma?

14 April 2020 - The pharmaceutical industry’s response to the novel coronavirus may not rescue its ailing reputation. But it ...

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Product specific guidances for chloroquine phosphate and hydroxychloroquine sulphate

13 April 2020 - The FDA plays a critical role in protecting the United States from threats including emerging infectious ...

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Vaccine development is a case of 'market failure'

13 April 2020 - Reliance on the private market to develop vaccines has failed, leaving us vulnerable to pandemics such as ...

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Pharmacologic treatments for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a review

13 April 2020 - The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

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COVID-19: world needs a global approach to fight: Bill Gates

12 April 2020 - Over the past few weeks, I’ve spoken to dozens of experts about COVID-19, and there’s clear ...

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Pharmaceutical profits and public health are not incompatible

8 April 2020 - We need the capital and creativity of the private sector to take on the coronavirus. ...

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Global plasma leaders collaborate to accelerate development of potential COVID-19 hyperimmune therapy

6 April 2020 - Partnership brings together world-leading plasma companies to focus on developing and delivering a hyperimmune immunoglobulin in the ...

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COVID-19 has changed how the world does science, together

1 April 2020 - Never before, scientists say, have so many of the world’s researchers focused so urgently on a single ...

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Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program

1 April 2020 - FDA has created a special emergency program for possible therapies, the Coronavirus Treatment Acceleration Program.  ...

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COVID-19 update: FDA continues to accelerate development of novel therapies for COVID-19

31 March 2020 - As part of the Trump Administration’s all-hands-on-deck approach across public, academic and private sectors to combat the ...

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Developing COVID-19 vaccines at pandemic speed

30 March 2020 - Rapid publication of a perspective co-authored by former head of Australian Department of Health. ...

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Johnson & Johnson announces a lead vaccine candidate for COVID-19; landmark new partnership with U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; and commitment to supply one billion vaccines worldwide for emergency pandemic use

30 March 2020 - Company Expects to Initiate Phase 1 Human Clinical Studies of Vaccine Candidate at Latest by September 2020. ...

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Crowdsourcing to fight COVID-19

26 March 2020 - “We are trying to fly the plane while we are building it.”  ...

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FDA continues to support transparency and collaboration in drug approval process as the clinical data summary pilot concludes

26 March 2020 - As our society becomes more global, it has become increasingly clear that the U.S. FDA needs to ...

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Novartis and life sciences companies commit expertise and assets to the fight against COVID-19 pandemic alongside Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

26 March 2020 - Collaboration to address product development and scale up challenges posed by current pandemic. ...

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