Abbott
At Abbott, we're committed to helping you live your best possible life through the power of health. For more than 125 years, we've brought new products and technologies to the world - in nutrition, diagnostics, medical devices and branded generic pharmaceuticals - that create more possibilities for more people at all stages of life. Today, 73,000 of us are working to help people live not just longer, but better, in the more than 150 countries we serve.
Business & Industry
- Valneva switches focus to bilateral discussions to supply its inactivated, adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate VLA2001
- Pfizer and BioNTech to supply the European Union with 100 million additional doses of COMIRNATY®
- Amgen successfully completes acquisition of Five Prime Therapeutics
- GSK and Vir Biotechnology announce EMA review of dual-action monoclonal antibody VIR-7831 for the early treatment of COVID-19
- Phase III prevention trial showed subcutaneous administration of investigational antibody cocktail casirivimab and imdevimab reduced risk of symptomatic COVID-19 infections by 81%
Research & Development
- Differing immune responses discovered in asymptomatic cases vs those with severe COVID-19
- Patients who are obese or overweight are at risk for a more severe course of COVID-19
- New COVID-19 vaccine may offer broad protection from coronaviruses
- SARS-CoV-2: New findings on the persistence of neutralizing antibodies
- Massive fragment screen points way to new SARS-CoV-2 inhibitors
- B.1.1.7. variant more transmissible, does not increase severity, Lancet studies suggest
- COVID-19 causes 'unexpected' cellular response in the lungs
Conferences & Events
- Scientists urge for investment now in highly potent vaccines to prevent the next pandemic
- CPhI Worldwide to return in 2021
- Reuters Events' Cell & Gene Therapy USA
- Total health: Build a better healthcare system
- Don't fall for the 'next best action' trap
- Locking down shape-shifting spike protein aids development of COVID-19 vaccine
- COVID-19 vaccine innovation could dramatically speed up worldwide production
Regulatory Affairs
- FDA revokes emergency use authorization for monoclonal antibody Bamlanivimab
- Joint CDC and FDA statement on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine
- AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine: EMA finds possible link to very rare cases of unusual blood clots with low blood platelets
- Increase in vaccine manufacturing capacity and supply for COVID-19 vaccines from AstraZeneca, BioNTech/Pfizer and Moderna
- EMA's safety committee continues investigation of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca and thromboembolic events