Category: Pharmaceuticals
Emergency use authorisation for Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in India
Biopharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. has applied for emergency approval for use of its coronavirus two-shot vaccine from the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI). However, there has been no response from the DCGI nor the health ministry. As of last […]
UPDATE: Oxford coronavirus vaccine spells good news for older adults
Good preliminary results for the Oxford coronavirus vaccine co-developed with drugmaker AstraZeneca adds to the already promising trial results for three other vaccines – Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Russia’s Sputnik. According to research data, the Oxford vaccine shows a strong immune […]
Two different COVID-19 vaccine trials show great success
Next year is already sounding more promising – two pharmaceutical giants have announced successful COVID-19 vaccine trials, which may help push more people to get vaccinated amid a surge of new coronavirus cases, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, an American […]
Old arthritis drug overcomes antibiotic resistance
Decades of overuse of antibiotics has rendered most of humanity’s best drugs useless against superbugs; researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), however, have discovered new potential to diminish bacterial resistance by repurposing an existing rheumatoid arthritis (RA) drug, […]
Aerosol drug found to inhibit activity of coronavirus
An international team of researchers from UK and Germany have identified a drug with the potential to provide relief from COVID-19 complications. Led by professors from the University of Kent, the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, and the Hannover Medical […]
Trio awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine for hepatitis C discovery
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology for Medicine has been awarded to research scientists Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for first identifying and then enabling novel testing methods concerning the hepatitis C virus. Their pioneering work […]
Anti-flu drug prevents coronavirus better than hydroxychloroquine
Treatment with a high dose of the anti-flu drug favipiravir has been found to have a more potent antiviral effect than hydroxychloroquine in an animal experiment with the novel coronavirus. Virologists at the KU Leuven Rega Institute (KU Leuven) in […]
Slower cognitive decline in diabetics on certain medication, researchers find
Metformin, a commonly prescribed drug for patients with type-2 diabetes in the US, has been found to lower dementia rates in some older patients. Metformin has been found to confer lifespan-extending effects on several animal studies in the past – […]
Injectable hydrogel vaccine found to be more effective than liquid vaccine types
Vaccines, obtained from a dead virus, confer resistance to infectious diseases by stimulating the immune system into producing antibodies that work against the actual live virus, should a person become infected with it. However, typical liquid vaccines are active for […]
