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Gilead Releases Additional Data on COVID-19 Antiviral, Remdesivir

by Samantha McGrail

Gilead recently  reported additional data on remdesivir, an investigational antiviral for the treatment of COVID-19. For more coronavirus updates, visit our resource page, updated twice...

HHS, DOD, Novavax Partner to Scale-Up COVID-19 Vaccine Doses

by Samantha McGrail

HHS and the Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced a $1.6 billion agreement with Novavax Inc. to demonstrate commercial-sale manufacturing of the company’s COVID-19 investigational...

Invoice-Based Drug Reimbursement Did Not Cut Medicaid Spending

by Samantha McGrail

In states that switched to drug reimbursement models where results were based on a survey of pharmacy invoices, researchers found no effect on overall Medicaid outpatient drug spending, according to a...

Kevzara Fails in Phase 3 COVID-19 Clinical Trial

by Samantha McGrail

Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals recently announced that the US Phase 3 COVID-19 clinical trial of Kevzara in patients requiring mechanical ventilation did not meet its primary and key secondary...

Pfizer Reports Positive Results for Potential COVID-19 Vaccine

by Samantha McGrail

Pfizer and BioNTech recently announced positive preliminary data from an ongoing Phase 1/2 study of the most advanced COVID-19 vaccine candidate in their BNT162 mRNA-based vaccine program. For more...

FDA Backs New Effort to Repurpose Drugs As COVID-19 Treatments

by Samantha McGrail

FDA is teaming up with the Critical Path Institute and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to launch the CURE Drug Repurposing Collaboratory (CDRC) to evaluate existing drugs...

Eli Lilly Starts Phase 3 Study of RA Drug as COVID-19 Treatment

by Samantha McGrail

Eli Lilly and Company recently announced that the first patient has been enrolled in a Phase 3 clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of baricitinib in hospitalized patients with...

Phase 3 Study Finds Roche’s Acute Myeloid Leukemia Drug Effective

by Samantha McGrail

Roche recently announced positive phase 3 results from a study evaluating Venclexta (venetoclax) in individuals with untreated acute myeloid leukemia (AML) who were ineligible for intensive induction...

AstraZeneca’s Calquence Shows Improvement in Two Clinical Trials

by Samantha McGrail

AstraZeneca recently announced that its drug, Calquence (acalabrutinib), showed long-term efficacy and tolerability for patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in two clinical...

Steroid Dexamethasone Reduces COVID-19 Deaths, Initial Data Shows

by Samantha McGrail

Preliminary data from a clinical trial found that a commonly used steroid – dexamethasone – improves survival in hospitalized COVID-19 patients, according to a press release from Oxford...

Combination Antibody Therapy Reduces Relapsed Multiple Myeloma

by Samantha McGrail

Sanofi recently announced that when Sarclisa (isatuximab), a monoclonal antibody, is added to carfilozomib and dexamethasone, it reduces the risk of relapsed multiple myeloma progression or death in...

Eli Lilly Launches Global Study of COVID-19 Antibody Treatments

by Samantha McGrail

Eli Lilly and Company recently announced that patients have been dosed in the world’s first study of potential COVID-19 antibody treatments.  For more coronavirus updates, visit...

Gilead Reports Remdesivir Helped Moderately Ill COVID-19 Patients

by Samantha McGrail

Gilead Sciences recently announced positive results from its Phase 3 SIMPLE clinical trial evaluating remdesivir as a COVID-19 drug for moderately ill COVID-19 patients. For more coronavirus updates,...

Bristol Myers Squibb Announces Commercial Launch of MS Drug

by Samantha McGrail

Bristol Myers Squibb recently announced that Zeposia (ozanimod) 0.92 mg for the treatment of relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) is now commercially available in the US.  Ozanimod, developed by...

Antidepressant Ineffective Against Apathy in Alzheimer’s Patients

by Samantha McGrail

A recent analysis of a randomized clinical trial found that the antidepressant bupropion was not superior to a placebo for the treatment of apathy in patients with dementia of Alzheimer type (DAT)...

GSK to Manufacture 1B Doses of COVID-19 Vaccine Adjuvant System

by Samantha McGrail

GSK recently announced it will manufacture one billion doses of its pandemic vaccine adjuvant system, in 2021, to support the development of various adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidates. For more...

Bristol Myers Squibb Drug Ineffective for Recurrent Glioblastoma

by Samantha McGrail

Bristol Myer’s Squibb drug, nivolumab, did not improve overall survival compared with the drug bevacizumab in the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma in a phase 3 clinical trial, according to a...

Obtaining Contraceptives from Pharmacists Boosts Continuous Adherence

by Samantha McGrail

Women who obtained direct contraceptive prescriptions from their pharmacist were able to minimize breaks in contraceptive coverage, while increasing their continuous adherence, according to researchers...

Merck and IAVI Partner to Develop Potential COVID-19 Vaccine

by Samantha McGrail

Merck and IAVI recently announced a joint partnership that will explore the development of an investigational vaccine candidate against SARS-CoV-2 to prevent COVID-19. For more coronavirus updates,...

HHS to Expand US-Based Pharmaceutical Manufacturing for COVID-19

by Samantha McGrail

HHS recently announced that it will expand pharmaceutical manufacturing in the US to produce medicines needed during the COVID-19 pandemic and boost capacity for producing finished generic drugs. For...