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The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed doubts about the FDA’s decision to grant an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for convalescent plasma as a COVID-19 treatment, claiming that the supporting evidence is weak. Read More
The month-long international study will enroll volunteers in Russia, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, the United Arab Emirates, and maybe Brazil and India. Read More
Russia will begin a phase 3 trial of its Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine on 40,000 volunteers this week, Russia’s state news agency Tass announced Friday. Read More
New data from Gilead Sciences’ late-stage trial of its antiviral remdesivir showed that a five-day course of the drug helped patients with moderate COVID-19 pneumonia, but the finding was of “uncertain clinical importance,” according to researchers. Read More
Merck said its blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in combination with chemotherapy significantly improved survival in patients with locally advanced or first-line metastatic esophageal cancer in a phase 3 clinical trial. Read More
Pfizer’s and BioNTech’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b2 has been chosen for a phase 2/3 efficacy study of 9,000 participants following its success in a phase 1 trial. Read More
Sinopharm has announced that it will launch another phase 3 trial of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine candidate, this time in Peru, following a greenlight from the Peruvian health regulator. Read More