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...Moderna’s president Stephen Hoge said the company expected $6bn to $8bn in sales of its Covid vaccine this year and did not know if that would be repeated or be slightly lower in future years....
...Pfizer was monitoring outbreaks of monkeypox “very closely”, he said....
...“Many of the medicines selected for price setting already have significant rebates and discounts due to the robust private market negotiation that [already] occurs,” said Stephen J Ubl, Phrma chief executive...
...Speaking to banking editor Stephen Morris at the FT’s global banking summit last week, Anil also said that financial crime was an “industry challenge”....
...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...Pfizer and BioNTech started enrolling participants in their phase 1 study in September....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...Stephen Evans, a professor in pharmacoepidemiology, said it was important to understand “vaccines are not like drugs”....
...“This is good news, mainly because it is not bad news,” said Stephen Evans, professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine....
...Pfizer confirmed the temporary change in guidance while a probe was under way....
...In August, Russia became the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine — named Sputnik V — for civilian use, but western experts cast doubt on its efficacy and safety....
...Stephen Hahn, the Food and Drug Administration commissioner, and Peter Marks, director of the FDA division responsible for overseeing vaccines, said in a statement on Friday that they had informed Pfizer...
...Three weeks after receiving a first dose of the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, sufficient antibody levels to combat the virus were detected in 39 per cent of patients with organ cancer and 13 per cent of those...
...Stephen Hahn, the head of the FDA, said on Twitter that the agency’s staff “feel the responsibility to move as quickly as possible” on the emergency use authorisation....
...Stephen Hahn, the FDA commissioner, said in a statement: “The FDA’s authorisation for emergency use of the first Covid-19 vaccine is a significant milestone in battling this devastating pandemic that has...
...Stephen Hahn, the FDA commissioner, said the agency is committed to making the approval process “as open and transparent as possible”....
...Stephen Hahn, head of the US Food and Drug Administration, said he hoped the first doses would be administered on Monday as the US struggles to reduce the accelerating spread of the disease....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...Stephen Evans, professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said the UK, which has chosen to space the first and second doses of the BioNTech/Pfizer shot beyond...
...If anything, that is optimistic, according to Stephen Tang, chief executive of OraSure Technologies, a rival diagnostics company....
...As Stephen Buranyi writes in this insightful NYT piece, we should not allow Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and others to run away as the heroes of this story....
...supporting such changes in vaccine administration, we run a significant risk of placing public health at risk, undermining the historic vaccination efforts to protect the population from Covid-19,” said Stephen...
...Pfizer/BioNTech....
...“If your first dose is the Pfizer vaccine you should not be given the AstraZeneca vaccine for your second dose and vice versa....
...Asked how soon vaccinations could take place at that rate, Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said: “Certainly this month we’ll be able to get up to that sort of number but that would...
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