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FDA Approves First Over-the-Counter Fully At-Home Test for COVID-19

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FDA Approves First Over-the-Counter Fully At-Home Test for COVID-19. 15, 2020 — The first nonprescription COVID-19 test that enables people to collect samples and get results at home has received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Ellume expects to produce more than 3 million tests in January 2021, the FDA said.

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Monthly News Roundup – December 2020

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Monthly News Roundup – December 2020. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued Emergency Use Authorization for two COVID-19 vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech’s BNT162b2 and Moderna’s mRNA-1273. The messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines encode a form of the spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 virus. Professional. In December, the U.S.

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FDA Approves Veklury (remdesivir) for the Treatment of COVID-19

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FDA Approves Veklury (remdesivir) for the Treatment of COVID-19. 22, 2020– Gilead Sciences, Inc. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the antiviral drug Veklury (remdesivir) for the treatment of patients with COVID-19 requiring hospitalization. FOSTER CITY, Calif.–(BUSINESS to 1.12).

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FDA Approves First Rapid COVID Test for Home Use

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18, 2020 – The first rapid coronavirus test that can be taken at home with results delivered in 30 minutes was cleared for emergency use by the U.S. The simple nasal swab test, developed by Lucira Health, requires a prescription and people under the age of 14 can’t perform the test on themselves, the FDA said in a statement.

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TaiGen Announces FDA Approval of IND for Its Flu Antiviral TG-1000

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1, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — TaiGen Biotechnology Company, Limited (“TaiGen”) ( Taiwan : 4157) announced today that U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has approved the Investigation New Drug (IND) application for TG-1000, a novel treatment for influenza A and B. TAIPEI, Taiwan , Nov.

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Predicting Drug Development in 2023

EG Life Sciences

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved around 26 novel drugs in 2022. Approval processes were slow in comparison to 2020 and 2021, where 53 and 50 approvals were achieved respectively. Going into the third year of the pandemic, we know that the virus still impacts industry operations.

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Top 2020 Biopharma M&A Deals

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The year 2020 will certainly go down in history as the year of COVID-19. Gilead Sciences Makes Multiple Bets : When Gilead Sciences wasn’t working on remdesivir in COVID-19, the company seemed to be constantly flexing its M&A muscle over the course of 2020. It began in May with the $4.9

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