WHO expert panel advises against use of remdesivir for hospitalised COVID-19 patients
The WHO group concluded there is currently no evidence that remdesivir improves survival when reviewing data from 7000 hospitalised COVID-19 patients.
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The WHO group concluded there is currently no evidence that remdesivir improves survival when reviewing data from 7000 hospitalised COVID-19 patients.
The EMA's safety monitoring plan outlines how new information after authorisation of COVID-19 vaccines will be collected and reviewed.
The rolling review will shorten the approval timeframe by evaluating data on the safety, efficacy and quality of the mRNA-1273 vaccine as it becomes available.
The European Medicines Agency committee reports its November findings, including five drugs recommended for marketing authorisation.
The European Commission has approved Forxiga (dapagliflozin) for use in the EU to treat symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.
There are significant interpretational differences between the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s guidance on active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) starting materials. In this article, Dave Elder explores the ambiguity in guidance from both agencies and addresses why industry struggles to identify and justify starting materials…
Behind every technological advance there is often a leadership story just as interesting. In this article, Ben Woollard highlights key leadership behaviours that have been fundamental in biological innovation and suggests how businesses can implement these attributes to strive forward in a new era of biologics.
The impact of COVID-19 is wide-reaching with disruptions to supply chains likely to continue over the coming years. In this article, Dave Elder discusses the effect of the pandemic on the supply and demand of critical medicines and what this means for pharma supply chains.
Ten medicines have been recommended for marketing authorisation and 10 extensions of indication have been suggested by the EMA.
The rolling review of BNT162b2 will allow the committee for human medicines (CHMP) to reach a faster decision on a future marketing authorisation application.
The EMA's human medicines committee has initiated a rolling review of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine candidate to test its efficacy.
Following its latest meeting, the EMA's CHMP has suggested granting marketing authorisation to seven medicines and extending the indications of 15 others.
Cecilia Avram details the requirements for pharma companies post-Brexit and provides practical pointers on minimising the disruption to cross-border product availability as new rules come into force.
The data suggests disease deterioration was halved in the six Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) patients treated with IPL344 over eight months.
Imfinzi (durvalumab) has been approved by the European Commission as a first-line treatment for extensive-stage small cell lung cancer, with chemotherapy.