BioHealth News Archive
COVID-19 Tip Sheet: Story Ideas from Johns Hopkins
Newswise — When T.C. Wu, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., and Chien-Fu Hung, Ph.D., heard earlier this year about a new coronavirus that was spreading in…
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With $349 Billion in Emergency Small Business Capital Cleared, SBA and Treasury Begin Unprecedented Public-Private Mobilization Effort to Distribute Funds | The U.S. Small Business Administration | SBA.gov
WASHINGTON – Following President Trump’s signing of the historic Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, SBA Administrator Jovita Carranza and Treasury Secretary Steven…
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Emergent BioSolutions Signs Agreement with Novavax to Manufacture NanoFlu™
GAITHERSBURG, Md., March 31, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Emergent BioSolutions Inc. (EBS) today announced an agreement with Novavax, Inc. (NVAX) whereby Emergent will provide…
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Anthony Fauci Shows Us the Right Way to Be an Expert – Scientific American Blog Network
Anthony Fauci has been an extraordinary presence during the COVID-19 crisis: calm yet urgent, informative yet plain-spoken. Along the way, he’s doing something even…
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QIAGEN Receives U.S. FDA EUA for QIAstat-Dx test kit, First and Only Syndromic Solution Integrating Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus | Business Wire
GERMANTOWN, Md. & HILDEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has received emergency use authorization (EUA) from the…
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AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi gets FDA green light to challenge Roche in small cell lung cancer | FiercePharma
Move over, Roche. There’s a new small cell lung cancer therapy on the scene, and it belongs to AstraZeneca. Monday, the FDA cleared the…
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Children’s National Hospital coronavirus testing kids | wusa9.com
WASHINGTON — Nearly 300 children have now been tested in the District’s first drive-thru COVID-19 coronavirus test site, with no kids in the nation’s…
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How Biotech Player You Haven’t Heard of Is Racing Gilead, Moderna to Coronavirus Treatment – TheStreet
Emergent BioSolutions (EBS) - Get Report may be a small company up against the heavy hitters, but it has a plan for a coronavirus…
Read MoreAmid concerns that startups could be left out of COVID-19 bailout, investors step up lobbying | TechCrunch
The massive bailout package that the U.S. government passed last week to stave off an economic collapse from measures put in place to mitigate…
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Coronavirus Patients May Carry Virus for a Week after Symptoms Have Resolved
A small study reported by researchers in Beijing and the United States found that 50% of patients treated for COVID-19 infection still carried the…
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Emergency Use Authorizations | FDA
This page lists current and terminated Emergency Use Authorizations that make available diagnostic and therapeutic medical devices to diagnose and respond to public health…
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National coronavirus response: A road map to reopening | American Enterprise Institute – AEI
This report provides a road map for navigating through the current COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. It outlines specific directions for adapting our…
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Johnson & Johnson Announces a Lead Vaccine Candidate for COVID-19; Landmark New Partnership with U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; and Commitment to Supply One Billion Vaccines Worldwide for Emergency Pandemic Use | Johnson & Johnson
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., March 30, 2020 – Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) (the Company) today announced the selection of a lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate…
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Johns Hopkins doctor identifies ‘5 major conditions’ for relaxing social distancing | Fox News
Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Dr. Thomas Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins…
Read MoreHow Does the Coronavirus Behave Inside a Patient?
In the third week of February, as the covid-19 epidemic was still flaring in China, I arrived in Kolkata, India. I woke up to…
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