Keyword: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

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Merck Grants Sinopharm Rights to Covid Pills

04.10.2022 -

US drugs giant Merck & Co has granted Sinopharm exclusive import and distribution rights to its oral Covid treatment Lagevrio (molnupiravir) in China.

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AstraZeneca CEO Goes “Off Message” on Covid Boosters

02.09.2022 -

Days before the FDA approved the new bivalent Covid-19 vaccine boosters, Pascal Soriot, CEO of AstraZeneca, offered his own assessment of the need for such.

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FDA Grants EUAs to Omicron-targeted Covid Shots

02.09.2022 -

As had been widely expected, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Aug. 31 granted emergency use authorizations (EUAs) to the new Covid-19 shots developed by mRNA...

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CSL Close to Finally Taking Control of Vifor

04.08.2022 -

Australian biopharma CSL said this week it has received all the regulatory clearance required to take over Switzerland’s Vifor. The acquisition announced in December 2021...

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US Government Buys 3 Million Novavax Doses

13.07.2022 -

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD) have ordered 3.2 million doses of Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine, even before the...

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FDA Panel Recommends Approval of Nuaxovid

09.06.2022 -

In a vote of 21 in favor with one abstention, the US Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel has recommended that the FDA approve Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine...

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FDA Greenlights GSK’s MMR Vaccine

07.06.2022 -

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has greenlit GSK’s Priorix-branded GSK’s mumps and rubella vaccine (MMR) for people 12 months and older. It is only the second...

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FDA Restricts Use of J&J Covid Vaccine

13.05.2022 -

US health authorities are restricting the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine somewhat belatedly, citing the rare blood clotting issues that have dogged this...