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Eiger BioPharmaceuticals Announces First Patients Dosed with Peginterferon Lambda in Phase 3 TOGETHER Study of Newly Diagnosed COVID-19 Outpatients
prnewswire
July 07, 2021
Eiger BioPharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the first patients were dosed with Peginterferon Lambda (Lambda) in the Phase 3 TOGETHER platform study in outpatients with COVID-19.
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Ongoing pharma productivity requires a focus on upskilling
europeanpharmaceuticalreview
July 06, 2021
Research suggests that if pharma does not address staff capability gaps and support employee training and development, then there will be a significant impact on productivity.
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Over 600,000 COVID-19 tests genomically sequenced in the UK
pharmatimes
July 06, 2021
The UK has sequenced over 600,000 positive COVID-19 tests, providing ‘invaluable data’ in the fight against the virus, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) announced last Friday.
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Study finds rise in antibiotic misuse in India during COVID first wave
expresspharma
July 06, 2021
The researchers estimated that COVID-19 likely contributed to 216.4 million excess doses of antibiotics and 38 million more doses of azithromycin in adults from June 2020 through September 2020.
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ICMR-NICED submits proposal to DBT for research on oral COVID-19 vaccine
expresspharma
July 06, 2021
It will take around five to six years to develop the oral vaccine in a laboratory, said Shanta Dutta, Director, ICMR-NICED.
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India's COVID Crisis Could Spawn Another: Antibiotic Misuse
drugs
July 06, 2021
While COVID-19 surged in India, so did the overuse or widespread misuse of antibiotics -- risking a future threat of drug-resistant bacteria.
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Researchers find potential path to a broadly protective COVID-19 vaccine using T cells
firstwordpharma
July 06, 2021
Gaurav Gaiha, MD, DPhil, a member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, studies HIV, one of the fastest-mutating viruses known to humankind.
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Ministry data said to show Pfizer shot blocks majority of serious Delta cases
firstwordpharma
July 06, 2021
A study from researchers at Hebrew University and Hadassah University Medical Center suggest Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine is 60% to 80% effective against infection from the Delta variant, reported The Times of Israel.
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Gap between Covid jabs to be reduced to eight weeks for all under-40s
firstwordpharma
July 06, 2021
New UK health secretary Sajid Javid told lawmakers "we are reducing the dose interval [for COVID-19 vaccines] for under-40s from 12 weeks to eight," as reported in This is Money.
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France's Sanofi expects Covid vaccine to be ready by December
firstwordpharma
July 06, 2021
Sanofi says its GlaxoSmithKline-partnered COVID-19 vaccine should be available by December, reported RFI. The vaccine uses recombinant proteins to trigger an immune response – the same technology that is used in one of Sanofi's seasonal influenza vaccines