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An idea from a Norwegian oil engineer will help the Nordic country double the number of respirators in its hospitals to treat covid-19 patients. The emergency respirator was developed in only three weeks and production is due to start imminently, Prime Minister Erna Solberg said at a press conference on Tuesday. Norway currently has less than 700 […]
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The first patients in a “historic” drug trial to test treatments for the coronavirus have been enrolled in Norway and Spain, World Health Organization officials announced Friday. World health officials are testing four of the most promising drugs to fight COVID-19, including malaria medications chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, an antiviral compound called Remdesivir, a combination of HIV […]
Source: CNBC
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Basel, 19 March 2020- Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced we are working with the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III clinical trial in collaboration with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a part of the US Health and Human Services Office of the […]
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The first batch of government-authorized coronavirus tests from Thermo Fisher Scientific have shipped off and the “dramatic ramp up” in production has begun, CEO Marc Casper told CNBC Monday. “We have already about 1.5 million tests in stock. We began shipping them yesterday and today,” Casper said in a “Mad Money” interview with Jim Cramer. “But we’re ramping […]
Source: CNBC
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Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks told CNBC on Friday that his company aims to start testing a treatment for the globally spreading coronavirus in the coming months. The pharmaceutical giant on Thursday announced that it has teamed up with the privately held AbCellera Biologics to co-develop a medicine for COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus […]
Source: CNBC