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...Julian Beach, interim executive director of healthcare quality and access at the MHRA, said sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia are “painful, life-long conditions that in some cases can be fatal”....
...One of the new cases naming Kenvue was filed on behalf of Justin and Kathryn Bergeron, a husband and wife who live in Louisiana....
...Joydeep Goswami, Illumina’s chief strategy and corporate development officer, has done the job in the interim since July, while the company seeks a replacement....
...Pfizer did not report data on standard-risk patients until last month, when it stopped a trial because an interim analysis showed it was not effective in reducing symptoms....
...Hopson, who is from Louisiana, wants his case heard before a jury....
...Albert Bourla, Pfizer’s chief executive, said the joint venture was “not strategic” for the drugmaker, but it is “very important that we create the best healthcare consumer company in the world”....
...Investor relations managing director David McCann will replace him in the interim. Nikola chief executive Mark Russell is retiring in January....
...Lawsuits in states including Utah, Louisiana, Texas and Florida succeeded in temporarily halting bans....
...The interim analysis of data from 775 patients showed that none of the participants receiving molnupiravir had died during the first 29 days of the study, versus eight who received a placebo, Merck said....
...In an interim analysis for standard-risk patients, two out of the 333 who received the drug were hospitalised, compared with eight in the placebo arm. There were no deaths in either of the trial arms....
...As an oral drug, the antiviral could be prescribed as an at-home treatment to cut the severity of the disease and reduce the impact of the pandemic on healthcare systems....
...At the start of 2021, as the global pandemic reached a new high, AmerisourceBergen agreed a majority acquisition of Alliance Healthcare, the distribution business of Walgreens Boots Alliance, for $6.5bn....
...The world’s largest healthcare group said it expected to supply 100m doses to the US government in the first half of the year, boosting supplies and speeding up the vaccination rollout....
...Mary Winston was the second in 2019 when she became interim chief of retailer Bed Bath & Beyond....
...It said it may have interim data for its oral drug, developed with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, in the first quarter, and expected to have more than 10m courses produced by the end of 2021....
...The government has published an “interim ranking of priorities” detailing which groups are expected to receive any vaccine first, based on issues such as clinical risk and age....
...In the interim, it is likely that the rest of us will need to maintain social distancing, handwashing and mask-wearing to keep transmission in the community low....
...The writer is chief executive of Sanofi We are entering a new phase of Covid-19 as interim data, first from Pfizer and BioNTech, and then Moderna, show promise of a safe and effective vaccine....
...“It would be stupidity on steroids if Congress left for Christmas without doing an interim package as a bridge [to the next administration],” said Mark Warner, the Virginia Democrat and one of the sponsors...
...A person familiar with the situation said Mr Rousseau’s role would be filled on an interim basis by Deutsche’s Emea co-heads of investment banking coverage, Patrick Frowein and Berthold Fuerst....
...That premise has been put to the test this year and the industry has over-delivered,” says Mr Mahony, who is co-head of healthcare for Polar Capital, which has an investment in AstraZeneca....
...of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations....
...“We are in the middle of one of the greatest healthcare crises, certainly in any of our lifetimes and one would argue in the past 100 years, and the fact that they would take time and energy to focus on...
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 9 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc....
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