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Keeping tabs on Covid-19: FDA approves Veklury as first treatment for Covid-19 and Takeda and Moderna bring 50 million vaccines to Japan

The Pharma Data

Dive into this week’s update for more details on the actions taken by the FDA in the ongoing response to the Covid-19 pandemic. FDA approves first treatment for Covid-19. On October 22, the FDA approved the antiviral drug Veklury for use in adult and pediatric patients for the treatment of Covid-19 requiring hospitalization.

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Keeping Your Company’s Federal Contracting Options Safe in the Face of Pending BIOSECURE Act Legislation

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

This proposed legislation should be of interest to any biotechnology companies that want to do business with the federal government in the future. Scope Part 2 —Is reimbursement under Medicaid a grant of funds by the federal government, such that they are governed by the Act? House of Representatives ( H.B.

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Regeneron Announces U.S. Government Agreement to Purchase Additional COVID-19 Antibody Cocktail Doses

The Pharma Data

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DOD) will purchase additional supply of the casirivimab and imdevimab antibody cocktail for use in non-hospitalized COVID-19 patients to meet the federal government’s Operation Warp Speed goals. million doses. . We are pleased to work with the U.S.

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FDA Accepts for Review Pfizer’s Supplemental Application for ABRILADA™ (adalimumab-afzb) Interchangeability

The Pharma Data

Pfizer is a leader in this vital healthcare segment with more than 14 years of global in-market experience, the first FDA approved biosimilar for the treatment of certain autoimmune conditions and nine approved biosimilars in the U.S. For more than 170 years, we have worked to make a difference for all who rely on us.

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Serum Institute of India Obtains Emergency Use Authorisation in India for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine

The Pharma Data

The approval in India is an important milestone as it will enable to supply India but also a large number of countries around the world. AZD1222 (SARS-CoV-2 vaccine) FDA Approval History. COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca, formerly AZD1222 AZD1222 was co-invented by the University of Oxford and its spin-out company, Vaccitech.

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REGN-COV2 Independent Data Monitoring Committee Recommends Holding Enrollment in Hospitalized Patients with High Oxygen Requirements and Continuing Enrollment in Patients with Low or No Oxygen Requirements

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Founded and led for over 30 years by physician-scientists, our unique ability to repeatedly and consistently translate science into medicine has led to eight FDA-approved treatments and numerous product candidates in development, all of which were homegrown in our laboratories.

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Analysis Life Sciences Thank You The U.S. regulatory landscape for probiotics and other microbiome-based therapies

Agency IQ

So what about all of the “biotic” terms that pop up in the news, on products labels and even in FDA warning letters? Unfortunately, there is no regulatory body that governs the terminology used in this space, although there are definitions that are generally accepted by the scientific community.