The European Commission has signed a contract with the pharmaceutical company Gilead to secure treatment doses of Veklury, the brand name for Remdesivir. Veklury was the first medicine authorised at EU level for treatment of…
Company exploring further additional global capacity to provide broad and equitable access AstraZeneca has reached an agreement with Europe’s Inclusive Vaccines Alliance (IVA), spearheaded by Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, to supply up to…
The study will take place in the U.S. and Belgium. Johnson & Johnson announced that through its Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies (Janssen) it has accelerated the initiation of the Phase 1/2a first-in-human clinical trial of its…
© Rehab Center Parus/Wikicommons For Timothy Leary, the acid-fuelled revolution whose prophet he had been didn’t really happen. President Richard Nixon called him “the most dangerous man in America”, but he never was. Later in…
The serology test has a specificity greater than 99.8% and sensitivity of 100% (14 Days post-PCR confirmation) The high specificity of the test is crucial to determine reliably if a person has been exposed to…
Airbus and Koniku Inc. have made a significant step forward in the co-development of a solution for aircraft and airport security operations by extending research activities to include biological hazard detection capabilities, as well as…
Guangdong Nuokang Medical Technology whose masks were recalled by the FDA The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that only 14 mask manufacturers in China are licensed to produce N95-style masks for use in the…
Persons using the facility will have a temperature check before entering an enclosed channel for the 40-second disinfection and sanitizing procedures Airport Authority Hong Kong (AA) is applying the latest disinfection technologies, including disinfection channels,…
© Moderna Julius Caesar simply couldn’t understand fear, according to William Shakespeare. “Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,” he says in the eponymous play (Act 2, Scene 2), “It seems to me…
Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round magenta objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The…
A new high-pressure ventilator developed by NASA engineers and tailored to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) patients passed a critical test Tuesday at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, an epicenter of…
Europeans are spending at least EUR 30 billion on drugs each year at retail level, making the drug market a major source of income for organised crime groups in the European Union according to the…
The man credited with creating Britain’s National Health Service is Aneurin Bevan, the son of a poor coal miner, born in Tredegar, Wales, in 1897. His father, David, along with two thirds of the men…
Cannabis is Europe’s most commonly used illicit drug. It is estimated that at least one in every eight young adults (aged 15–34 years) used cannabis in the last year across the European Union. At the…
Most people who smoke wish they didn’t. Odd, isn’t it? Spending all that money on a product that often annoys those around you, that forces you to stand outside your place of work on a…
It would seem that for pharmaceutical companies, addiction comes easily. You put the price up steeply one minute, and before the effect has had time to wear off you just can’t wait to give it…
