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While the U.S. had been one of a few rich nations holding out – along with Canada, the European Union and Britain – on some level, Wednesday’s announcement of support for the proposal is not unexpected.
Cancer doesn’t care if you’re Democratic, Republican, Libertarian or Green. It strikes without prejudice or consideration. As President Joe Biden said Wednesday night in his first major speech to Congress, “I know of nothing that is more bipartisan.”
Drug pricing tends to be a somewhat bipartisan issue, although how the Democrats and GOP approach the topic tends to be different.
Please check out the biopharma industry’s COVID-19 stories that are trending for April 27, 2021.
Leaked documents from provincial and municipal governments in China reveal a slew of previously unreported severe adverse events related to COVID-19 vaccines made and administered in China.
On Friday April 23, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) lifted the restrictions on the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
A $25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (HEAL) is funding new research to develop a vaccine that may help patients overcome their addiction to opioids, a class of highly addictive pain medications.
ApiJect’s syringe is designed to be prefilled with a dose of a vaccine before it is shipped out to be used by doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, and many of the vaccination centers set up across the country. NBC noted that the prefilled technology had not been approved in the U.S.
Please check out the biopharma industry’s COVID-19 stories that are trending for April 20, 2021.
The government agency is asking for more information before approving a clinical study on the company’s Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T).
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