Pfizer to sell all its patented drugs at non-profit price in low-income countries
Reuters Pfizer Inc will make all of its patented medicines including COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid and big-selling breast cancer drug Ibrance available at a not-for-profit price to 45 of the world’s poorest countries, the drugmaker said on Wednesday. These countries lack good access to innovative treatments. It can take four to seven years longer for new […]
Explainer: When and how will COVID-19 vaccines become available?
New York City, USReuters Pfizer Inc with partner BioNTech SE and Moderna Inc have released trial data showing their COVID-19 vaccines to be about 95 per cent effective at preventing the illness, while AstraZeneca Plc this week said its vaccine could be up to 90 per cent effective. If regulators approve any of the vaccines […]
Q&A: Where are we in the COVID-19 vaccine race?
New York City, USReuters Drugmakers and research centers around the world are working on COVID-19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands of participants well underway. Some companies had suggested early trial data could be ready for release in October, but have since pushed that back to November […]
Wave of promising study results raise hopes for coronavirus vaccines
Chicago, USReuters Early data from trials of three potential COVID-19 vaccines released on Monday, including a closely-watched candidate from Oxford University, increased confidence that a vaccine can train the immune system to recognise and fight the novel coronavirus without serious side effects. Whether any of these efforts will result in a vaccine capable of protecting […]