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Coronavirus Update: India Approves Remdesivir, Ex-Biogen Employee Charged

A former employee of Biogen is officially charged in China for allegedly jeopardizing public health, Wuhan tests 10 million residents, India approves remdesivir.

Topic Coronavirus Vaccines

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Questions Remain On Gilead’s Remdesivir

Remdesivir shows ability to yield clinical improvement in moderately ill COVID-19 patients, but data are called ‘modest’ and shorter therapy duration showed better results than longer.

Topic Coronavirus Clinical Trials

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Merck’s Frazier Urges Businesses To Use ‘Every Instrument At Their Disposal’ To Reduce Racial Inequity

‘What we have to guard against is that when the streets quiet down … a lot of people are going to go back to their normal lives,’ Merck CEO Ken Frazier says in an interview with CNBC.

Topic Leadership

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‘Business Unusual’: COVID-19 Brought Commercial Changes To Pharma And It May Stick

The pharmaceutical selling model will be modified even after the immediate COVID-19 pandemic crisis abates, the consulting firm ZS Associates predicts, citing new research.

Topic Coronavirus

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Coronavirus Update: Roche Launches Remdesivir Plus Actemra Trial, GSK Plans 1 Billion Vaccine Adjuvant Doses

Roche is teaming up with Gilead on the combination trial, aiming to improve on results of remdesivir alone, which has failed to show mortality benefits in COVID-19 patients.

Topic Coronavirus

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COVID-19 Staff Shakeup: Woodcock Moves to Commissioner's Office As Marks Drops Out Of 'Warp'

CBER Director Marks will no longer have to recuse himself from COVID-19 product reviews, a move seen as resoundingly positive by former senior FDA leaders. CDER Director Woodcock will now be free to focus solely on COVID-19 and bring her unique depth of agency experience to the Trump Administration's effort to speed development of vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics for coronavirus.

Topic Coronavirus

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What The Pandemic Can Teach Us About Running Clinical Trialssample content insights page

Participants in a recent webinar looked at how the coronavirus is changing the way we look at clinical trials and whether new EU COVID-19 guidance might hold lessons for future approaches to study design.

Topic Coronavirus

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Gilead’s Major Challenge Is Sustainable Model For Remdesivir

With efficacy data in hand, Gilead wants to balance economic sustainability with broad availability of remdesivir for COVID-19 patients. The firm did not alter guidance on Q1 earnings call.

Topic Coronavirus

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Pharma Can Reset Reputation In Pandemic Says Novartis CEO

Vas Narasimhan hopes that donations and the "unprecedented collaborations" between drugmakers trying to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic is leading to a shift in the perception of the value of the sector to society.

Topic Coronavirus