US Food and Drug Administration has expanded the emergency use authorisation (EUA) for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include adolescents 12 through 15 years of...Weekly Roundup
AstraZeneca executives have struggled to pull together the full data necessary to apply for US approval of its COVID-19 shot. The Wall Street Journal reports that...
May 5th, 2021Dr Kenneth Warner of the University of Michigan School of Public Health argues in a MedPage Today op-ed that a ban on menthol cigarettes and cigars by the US Food and...
A combination of remdesivir, a drug currently approved in the US for treating COVID-19 patients, and repurposed drugs for hepatitis C virus (HCV) was 10 times more...Weekly Roundup
As Pfizer discontinues a drug used to manage a rare form of glaucoma, a small group of patients struggles to cope, Stat News reports.
From next month, an eye drop...International
Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus vaccine's rollout has been paused in South Africa, the United States and Europe, over blood-clotting concerns by the US Centres for...Weekly Roundup
Nearly 40% of US Marines who have been offered the COVID-19 vaccine have declined it, rising to 57% at one base USA Today reports that according to the Pentagon, of the...Endocrinology
Sticking with weekly semaglutide injections resulted in continued weight loss for adults with overweight and obesity, according to the Semaglutide Treatment Effect in...Coronavirus Watch
COVID-19 infection was very low in a cohort of vaccinated California healthcare workers (HCWs) amid a surge of new cases, according to a research letter.
University...Medico-Legal
Boston Scientific Corporation has agreed to pay $188.7m to settle claims by most US states that it deceptively marketed its surgical mesh devices to consumers, reports...
