Pfizer and BioNTech are under a white-hot spotlight because their vaccine, by design, is likely to be the first to have any efficacy data.
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STATPfizer revealed that researchers have not yet conducted an analysis of the efficacy of the vaccine it is developing against Covid-19. The announcement is both good news and bad news.
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White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows seemed to indicate the Trump administration has concluded containment of the virus is not possible.
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STATThe @WHO warned countries against giving up on efforts to control the coronavirus pandemic, with the head of the agency saying doing so would be “dangerous.”
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The 2020 STAT Summit is a virtual program from Nov. 16-19.
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A pill from Mirati Therapeutics designed to block the cancer protein KRAS shrank tumors in 45% of patients with advanced lung cancer.
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STATA pill from Mirati Therapeutics designed to block the cancer protein KRAS shrank tumors in 45% of patients with advanced lung cancer, according to new data.
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The worry is not just that people might mingle more closely inside, but that the air they breathe will make the virus more dangerous.
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STATCold, dry air facilitates the spread of the coronavirus, and the social distancing that helped outside won’t be as effective indoors, scientists say.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly accelerated the drug industry's migration to the cloud, with pharma striking new deals with tech giants.
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STATThe drug industry has been migrating to the cloud for years. But Covid-19 has rapidly accelerated that shift for a simple reason: Researchers needed to run the biggest experiment of their lives in record time, and they lacked the power to launch it.
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The ageny may be exploring the idea of using expanded access — a more limiting program — in the early days of Covid vaccine rollouts.
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STATThere are serious signs the FDA is getting cold feet over the notion of issuing emergency use authorizations to allow for the widespread early deployment of Covid-19 vaccines. buff.ly/3mjRmeu
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"Innovative new medicines will not launch in Canada, depriving patients of potentially life-changing new treatments," an industry group said.
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STATAfter months of delay, Health Canada has released a final version of new regulations that are designed to cut prescription drug spending by the Canadian government.
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“We should be reassured by the care taken by independent regulators to protect the public," AstraZeneca's CEO said.
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STATTwo major studies of vaccines against Covid-19, both paused because of potential safety concerns, are set to restart, the companies running them said Friday. buff.ly/3kojxrS #Covid_19 #vaccines
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By advocating against or endorsing presidential candidates, science journal editors make themselves vulnerable to charges of bias.
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STATOpinion: This election is a crucial opportunity to reclaim public health and science leadership in this country, all the more reason why science journal editors should cleave tightly to core scientific principles that will outlast politics.
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STATOpinion: Editors’ ultimate allegiance should be to a process — the scientific method — not to a person or a party.
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New guidance from the FDA says those who are premenopausal should no longer be excluded from breast cancer drug trials.
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STATNew guidance from @US_FDA says those who are premenopausal should no longer be excluded from breast cancer drug trials, a move greeted as good news for younger patients.
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President Trump and Joe Biden presented starkly different visions for the country’s recovery from Covid-19 at the final presidential debate.
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STATOn a day the U.S. reported more than 72,000 new Covid-19 cases and 1,000 new deaths, President Trump insisted the U.S. was “rounding the turn” on Covid-19. Joe Biden warned of a “dark winter.”
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The findings, published in BMJ, could re-energize the debate over whether blood plasma is an effective treatment for the disease.
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STATInfusing hospitalized Covid-19 patients with blood plasma from people who recovered from the disease had no effect on whether patients got sicker or died, according to the first completed randomized trial of the treatments.
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STATInfusing hospitalized Covid-19 patients with blood plasma from people who recovered from the disease had no effect on whether patients got sicker or died, according to the first completed randomized trial of the treatments.
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STATBREAKING: Blood plasma showed no benefit in Covid-19 patients in trial — a finding that could re-energize debate
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