From Jane orient, MD Executive Director of the AAPS: I hope you are well and looking forward to a joyous time with family. Big Bird is advertising shots for tots, and many are facing unemployment just after Christmas because of shot mandates. So why wait? The main reason for getting the shot is to lower…
FiercePharma on other drugs being considered for Covid-19: Other than remdesivir and chloroquine, researchers and physicians are also looking at other existing drugs to treat COVID-19. These include AbbVie’s HIV combo therapy Kaletra (Aluvia), which just failed a clinical study in China in critically ill patients. Chinese authorities, which have been dealing with the virus longer, are…
From Jerry Markon at the Washington Post: A panel of prominent scientists is casting new doubt on scientific evidence that was a key part of the FBI’s case against Bruce E. Ivins, the deceased Army scientist accused of carrying out the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks. The National Research Council, in a report issued Tuesday, questioned…
Excerpts from this Reuters article indicate, imho, that the pregnant patients have more sense than the doctors offering them vaccine. … “In all the pregnant women we’ve offered it to, I think only about one in20 has agreed,” Dr Chris Udenze, a family doctor based in Nottingham, centralEngland, said in the survey… Original estimates that…
From today’s (2/29/20) NYT: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Saturday that it was authorizing American laboratories to develop their own coronavirus tests, which should significantly increase the country’s testing capacity.The effect could be rapid. About 80 labs and private companies have applied for emergency approval for tests they have already created. If they…
This article, from the journal Homeland Security Affairs, recaps the history of the anthrax vaccine program and explores how the anthrax letters attack might be related to it. Past problems with the Department of Defense anthrax vaccine currently impactnational emergency response plans approved by the Department of HomelandSecurity and Department of Health and Human Services….