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Drug Prices Increased over 25% for a Third of Products

by Samantha McGrail

A study recently published in JAMA Network Open found that nearly one-third of sole-source, off-patent, and off-exclusivity drug products saw major increases in drug prices over any calendar year. In...

FDA Grants Emergency Use Authorization to Yale for COVID-19 Test

by Samantha McGrail

FDA recently issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Yale School of Public Health for its SalivaDirect COVID-19 test. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page, updated twice...

AstraZeneca to Supply 400M Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine to EU

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca recently announced an agreement with the European Commission (EC) to supply up to 400 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine, AZD122. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource...

Third of Americans Would Pass on COVID-19 Vaccine If Ready Today

by Samantha McGrail

When asked if they would get an FDA-approved and affordable COVID-19 vaccine, 65 percent of Americans answered that they would, while 35 percent would not, according to a recent Gallup survey. For...

Pfizer to Manufacture Gilead’s Remdesivir for COVID-19 Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer recently announced a multi-year agreement with Gilead Sciences to manufacture and supply the company’s investigational COVID-19 treatment, remdesivir. For more coronavirus updates, visit...

Eli Lilly Launches Phase 3 Trial of COVID-19 Antibody Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

Eli Lilly and Company recently announced the initiation of a Phase 3 trial, BLAZE-2, studying potential COVID-19 antibody treatment in residents and staff at nursing facilities across the US. For more...

Johnson & Johnson’s Single Shot COVID-19 Vaccine Helps Monkeys

by Samantha McGrail

Johnson & Johnson recently announced that its lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate protected against SARS-CoV-2 infection in pre-clinical studies using monkeys. For more coronavirus updates, visit...

GSK, Sanofi to Supply 60M Doses of Its COVID-19 Vaccine to UK

by Samantha McGrail

GSK and Sanofi reached an agreement with the UK government for the supply of up to 60 million doses of the company’s jointly developed COVID-19 vaccine. For more coronavirus updates, visit...

Key Strategies for Advancing Gene and Cell Therapy Development

by Samantha McGrail

Experts believe that the next generation of cell and gene therapies holds significant promise for patients because this alternative treatment option represents an advancement in personalized...

Thermo Fisher Scientific to Up Manufacturing of Cell Therapies

by Samantha McGrail

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Lyell Immunopharma recently partnered to develop manufacturing processes create more effective cell therapies to benefit cancer patients. The companies main goal is to...

Pfzier, BioNTech Select mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine Candidate

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer and BioNTech recently announced the start of a global (excluding China) Phase 2/3 safety and efficacy clinical study to evaluate a single nucleoside-modified messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine...

Pull Funding May Combat COVID-19 Vaccine Development Challenges

by Samantha McGrail

A recent Health Affairs study suggested that a “pull funding” program that incentivizes late-stage development for COVID-19 vaccine development may combat challenges with speed, scale,...

Trump Aims to Lower Drug Prices Via PBM Reform, Drug Importation

by Samantha McGrail

The Trump administration is aiming to lower drug prices by eliminating kickbacks to middlemen, like pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), and increasing drug importation in three new executive orders...

Direct-Acting Antiviral Lowers Mortality Rate Among HCV Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Direct-acting antivirals (DAA) could be the answer in treating patients with hepatitis C viral (HCV) infections, regardless of whether they also suffer from cirrhosis, according to a JAMA Network Open...

HHS Signs $1.95B Agreement to Produce Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine

by Samantha McGrail

HHS and the Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced an agreement with Pfizer Inc. for large-scale production and nationwide delivery of 100 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine in the US. For...

GSK, CureVac Partner to Manufacture mRNA Vaccines, Antibodies

by Samantha McGrail

GSK and CureVac recently announced a collaboration for the research, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of five mRNA-based vaccines and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) targeting infectious...

Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Displays Immune Response

by Samantha McGrail

A recent clinical trial found that a new COVID-19 vaccine candidate, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19, given as a single dose was safe and well tolerated, according to a new study published in Lancet.  For more...

Eli Lilly Releases Positive Phase 3 Study Results for its Antibody

by Samantha McGrail

Eli Lilly and Company recently announced that its monoclonal antibody, mirikizumab, showed promise in its Phase 3 study for patients with moderate to severe plaque psoriasis.  Mirikizumab is a...

Dopamine Agonist Showed No Notable Benefit in Alzheimer’s Patients

by Samantha McGrail

In patients with Alzheimer’s disease, a daily dose of dopamine agonist, rotigotine, showed no significant benefit from baseline to 24 weeks when compared with a placebo, according to a JAMA...

Roche to Co-Develop Investigational Therapy for RET-Altered Cancers

by Samantha McGrail

Roche and Blueprint Medicines Corporation recently signed an agreement to provide exclusive rights to Roche for global co-development and commercialization of an investigational therapy for patients...