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Don’t Write Actemra Off Yet: Roche Drug Found To Be ‘Lifesaving’ In COVID-19

Don’t Write Actemra Off Yet: Roche Drug Found To Be ‘Lifesaving’ In COVID-19

Source : 'Scrip Intelligence'

Patients admitted to intensive care in the UK with severe COVID-19 will receive Roche Holding AG’s Actemra/RoActemra (tocilizumab) after an international trial found the drug could cut the...

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EU Approval Of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Expected By End Of January

EU Approval Of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Expected By End Of January

Source : 'The Pink Sheet'

An EU decision on approving the Oxford University/AstraZeneca PLC COVID-19 may come by the end of this month.

The European Medicines Agency expects AstraZeneca to apply for the...

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Pink Sheet Podcast: Pharma Gets Democratic Senate, Slow COVID-19 Vaccinations, 2020 CDER Approvals

Pink Sheet Podcast: Pharma Gets Democratic Senate, Slow COVID-19 Vaccinations, 2020 CDER Approvals

Source : 'The Pink Sheet'

Pink Sheet senior writers Derrick Gingery and Sarah Karlin-Smith, Executive Editor Nielsen Hobbs and Senior Editor Cathy Kelly discuss the potential effects of the now Democrat-controlled Senate on pharma following...

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UK Variant Of Coronavirus May Be Harder To Diagnose With Many Current Tests: FDA

UK Variant Of Coronavirus May Be Harder To Diagnose With Many Current Tests: FDA

Source : Medtech Insight

The US Food and Drug Administration alerted clinical laboratories and health care providers that mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, including the B.1.1.7 variant, may result in false negative...

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Asia Medtech Reg Discussions: COVID-19 Is A Golden Moment For Medtech And Governments To Learn How To Deal With Future Crises

Asia Medtech Reg Discussions: COVID-19 Is A Golden Moment For Medtech And Governments To Learn How To Deal With Future Crises

Source : Medtech Insight

The experiences of COVID-19 within the medtech industry have varied from company to company and from country to country. Asia was hardest hit by rising infections in the early months...