COVID-19 News

HELIOSTAR™ Radiofrequency Balloon Ablation Catheter Launched by Biosense Webster in Europe On October 12, 2022, Biosense Webster, a part of Johnson & Johnson Medical technology, announced the launch of HELIOSTAR™ Balloon Ablation Catheter, the first radiofrequency balloon ablation catheter in E...

Neuros Medical Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation for its Novel Altius® High-Frequency Nerve Block System On June 29, 2021, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted Neuros Medical, Inc. Breakthrough Device Designation for the use of their unique Altius High-Frequency Nerve Block device in...

Full FDA Approval for Venclexta Combinations for Acute Myeloid Leukemia   The US FDA has granted its full approval to Venclexta (venetoclax) for newly diagnosed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in adults 75 years or older who are unfit for intensive induction chemotherapies.  The approval is based on the res...

U.S., AstraZeneca strikes an antibody treatment USD 486 million deal The U.S. government awarded the pharma giant AstraZeneca a sum of USD 486 million for the development of up to 100,000 corona vaccine doses. The deal, under Operation Warp Speed, will people the manufacturing of antibody doses and facilitate th...

Inovio’s shares plunge after FDA holds-off its COVID-19 vaccine Phase II/III trial  Inovio’s COVID-19 vaccine, INO-4800, Phase II/III clinical trials’ have been put under partial hold after the USFDA raised questions. The firm mentioned the reason behind the halt of the trials is not due to adverse events i...

Novartis’s Spartalizumab Combo Fails To Meet The Primary Goal In The Melanoma Trial  Novartis recently declared the results of its Phase III COMBI-I trial evaluating its experimental checkpoint inhibitor spartalizumab in combination with Tafinlar (dabrafenib) and Mekinist (trametinib) for patients, previous...

AstraZeneca demonstrates positive early results from its trial evaluating COVID-19 vaccine-AZD1222 In a frenzied race to find a global cure for COVID-19, several pharma players are testing waters and presenting results from clinical studies evaluating their potential candidates. Not long after, Moderna, a U...

Algernon Pharmaceuticals has announced the submission of an Investigational New Drug (IND) application of its drug, NP-120 for COVID-19.  The company has submitted the IND with the US FDA for its planned multinational Phase 2b/3 study of its repurposed drug NP-120 (Ifenprodil) for the treatment of patients ...

Merck has collaborated with the Seattle-based Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) to further study novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The primary goal of the collaboration will be to investigate the molecular pathway of SARS-CoV-2 and aetiology of COVID-19 with the intent of finding an effective and standard treatm...