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New Zealand has finally approved India-made vaccines, Covishield and Covaxin. The decision comes soon after Australia, New Zealand’s neighbour, recognised the two Indian vaccines last month. This means that Indian travellers vaccinated with these vaccines will not have to...

GlaxoSmithKline plc and Vir Biotechnology, Inc. announced US government contracts totalling approximately $1 billion (USD) to purchase sotrovimab, an investigational monoclonal antibody for the early treatment of COVID-19, which the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Emergency Use...

Pfizer Inc. announced an agreement with the U.S. government to supply 10 million treatment courses of its investigational COVID-19 oral antiviral candidate, PAXLOVID™ (PF-07321332; ritonavir), subject to regulatory authorization from the U.S. FDA. If approved or authorized, PAXLOVID, which...

uMotif, a leading eClinical platform provider powering patient-centric research, has joined up with researchers at The University of Manchester to investigate the real-world usability of its digital body mapping tool in a feasibility study in people living with musculoskeletal...

Micro-Sphere has added to its contract development and manufacturing expertise with new spray drying technology and increased high containment capabilities. The Swiss contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO), which specialises in spray drying and capsule filling, has invested more than...

Metrics Contract Services, a division of Mayne Pharma, is pleased to announce that its Greenville, North Carolina facility has successfully completed an inspection by the Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária, or the Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA), for...

Clinerion Patient Network Explorer technology powers the Federated Query System (FQS) of the Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN), which operates across all five of Switzerland’s university hospitals. Via the FQS, authorized researchers can run feasibility queries for multisite data-driven...