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CNBC: WHO officials enroll first patients from Norway and Spain in ‘historic’ coronavirus drug trial

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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 […]

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Press Release: Roche initiates Phase III clinical trial of Actemra/RoActemra in hospitalised patients with severe COVID-19 pneumonia

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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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CNBC: Thermo Fisher ships coronavirus tests, aims to produce 5 million tests a week by April

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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 […]

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CNBC: Eli Lilly CEO aims to start testing coronavirus cure ‘this summer’

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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 […]

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San Diego Union-Tribune: Thermo Fisher set to produce test kits that can diagnose COVID-19 in four hours

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Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world’s largest manufacturer of laboratory equipment, has announced that it has received emergency authorization to produce coronavirus test kits that can diagnose within four hours. The company — based out of Waltham, Mass., with West Coast headquarters in Carlsbad — said the Food and Drug Administration’s approval late Friday will allow […]

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