An ousted vaccine agency director offers an explosive, direct allegation: Trump is politicizing science
WASHINGTON — Rick Bright, the U.S. official who was ousted this week from a post…
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Opinion: If pharma helps quench the Covid-19 pandemic, what will it want in return?
Make no mistake: The only long-term solution to the Covid-19 pandemic is a safe and…
Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline collaborate to speed up coronavirus vaccine development
The French drug giant Sanofi said Tuesday that it plans to use technology from GlaxoSmithKline…
Opinion: To restart the economy, employers need to lead the way on Covid-19 testing, vaccination
The precise, nationally coordinated campaigns of Covid-19 testing and contact isolation that helped South Korea…
Pfizer says coronavirus drug could enter testing by fall
Pfizer said Thursday it now intends to start human tests on a potential drug to…
A $30 billion gamble: Pandemic expert calls for making Covid-19 vaccines before we know they work
There’s a one-word exit strategy for the devastating Covid-19 pandemic, which is crippling economies around…
WHO director-general endorses a voluntary intellectual property pool to develop Covid-19 products
Amid the race to find a salve for Covid-19, the World Health Organization director-general has…
‘Drug development is a long, long process’: pharma CEO in Italy sounds a note of caution on Covid-19
The CEO of a global pharmaceutical company’s operations in Italy has advice for anyone expecting…
Researchers rush to test coronavirus vaccine in people without knowing how well it works in animals
As they race to test an experimental coronavirus vaccine, researchers aren’t waiting to see how…
Progressives push Trump administration to ensure a future coronavirus vaccine is affordable
WASHINGTON — Progressive Democrats are pushing to constrain how much drug makers can charge for…
Opinion: A coronavirus vaccine should be for everyone, not just those who can afford it
As the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 spreads in more than 60 countries, the race to…
‘Reject Big Pharma’: Anti-vaccine activists co-opt a populist slogan to try to repeal a state immunization law
The advertisements plastered across city bus stops and flooding television airwaves across Maine make a…
Opinion: In the race for coronavirus vaccines, don’t leave pregnant women behind
As several thousand people become newly infected each day with the novel coronavirus Covid-19, and…
Most adults don’t need booster vaccinations for tetanus and diphtheria, new study concludes
People who got all their vaccinations against tetanus and diphtheria in childhood don’t need booster…
Opinion: A single-dose HPV vaccine would have a big impact on cancer prevention
As the father of three teenagers, as a son whose father lost his battle with…
A Chinese biotech partners with GSK to boost its coronavirus vaccine development
A Chinese biotech has taken up vaccine maker GSK’s offer to share its vaccine-boosting platform…
In rough U.S. flu season for kids, vaccine working OK so far
NEW YORK — It may end up being a bad flu season for kids, but…
STAT Plus: Lawmakers to Trump: Don’t give ‘monopolies’ to companies that develop coronavirus treatments with taxpayer funds
Nearly four dozen lawmakers asked the White House to ensure any treatment for the fast-moving…
In effort to develop coronavirus vaccine, outbreak expert sees ‘hardest problem’ of his career
As China struggles to contain an epidemic caused by a new coronavirus, science is racing…
TB vaccines can vary greatly, study finds. But does that mean some are less protective?
It all started with a bit of bacteria swiped from the udder of a tuberculous…
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How fast can biotech come up with a vaccine for the latest outbreak?
The deadly outbreak of a novel coronavirus has sparked a race among biotech companies, each…
Opinion: The public science behind the ‘Merck’ Ebola vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved an important vaccine against Ebola, five years…
Delivering the TB vaccine by IV better protects monkeys, new study finds
A new study suggests that a simple tweak could make a century-old vaccine for tuberculosis…
3 challenges to watch in global health in 2020
New Year’s Day may usher in a new decade, but our crystal ball suggests some…
Experimental vaccine patch embeds invisible dots under the skin, leaving record of immunization
Ana Jaklenec readily acknowledges she’s inspired by “Star Trek.” The Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist…
Two Ebola treatments yield ‘substantial decrease’ in mortality, landmark trial shows
Final data from a landmark clinical trial of four Ebola therapies conducted in the current…
New data on Takeda’s dengue vaccine look promising, but with troubling exception
New data about the effectiveness of Takeda Pharmaceutical’s experimental dengue vaccine will likely raise more…