AstraZeneca has commenced a global withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine on Tuesday, citing a “surplus” of updated jabs for new variants, months after acknowledging its rare risk of serious side effects. The pharmaceutical giant’s jab, Vaxzevria, is no longer authorized in the European Union as of May 7, after AstraZeneca requested the withdrawal of its […]
An April small business report found 43 percent of small business renters were late on their rent or could only pay part of their payment. Alignable conducted the survey. It found that small business owners say rent is higher, costs have increased, and revenue is declining. Nearly 70 percent of businesses formed before the pandemic […]
Britain’s largest drugmaker is continuing its push into the Chinese market. AstraZeneca on Tuesday said it would buy a Chinese cancer therapy company for $1.2 billion. The cash deal is set to close in 2024. The Chinese company focuses on cell therapies for cancer. A space currently dominated by other big players, such as Gilead […]
Some of America’s biggest public pension funds are pouring money into China. Find out if your retirement funds are part of the flow. Two-thirds of the Chinese population might be earning less than $300 per month. That number was disclosed by a prominent Chinese economist. Some Chinese goods get a new deadline for low tariffs […]
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Aug. 3 recommended using a new monoclonal antibody from Sanofi and AstraZeneca to protect infants against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). The CDC’s advisory committee voted unanimously to include the nirsevimab antibody drug, called Beyfrotus, in the Vaccines for Children program, which will provide access to […]
Big Pharma companies, which reaped billions of dollars in COVID vaccine sales, allegedly pressured Twitter to censor activists who pushed for the sharing of knowledge needed to make generic vaccines, according to the latest addition to the “Twitter Files.” In 2020, there was an “international push” to force the drug industry to make its COVID […]
Drugmakers Moderna and AstraZeneca are partnering up to develop a “mRNA therapeutic” to treat life-threatening cardiovascular disease such as heart failure. “We are collaborating with @AstraZeneca on an mRNA therapeutic (AZD8601) that encodes for VEGF-A to promote recovery of cardiac function through tissue regeneration,” Moderna said in a Twitter post Thursday. The biotechnology company included […]
AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish company, and the COVID-19 vaccine it developed with Oxford University is widely used around the world. This year, the vaccine suffered some controversy over side effects of blood clots and bleeding. But it’s still a key part of the UK’s mass vaccination campaign after being declared safe by the regulator. NTD […]
The prime minister asks people to enjoy New Year, but in a “cautious and sensible way.” Hong Kong’s press freedoms take another hit, as one of the last pro-democracy news outlets shuts down. And we take a look at the highs and lows of the AstraZeneca company and its vaccine.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Dec. 8 issued an emergency use authorization for an AstraZeneca COVID-19 antibody drug designed to help prevent infection in people with compromised immune systems. The drug, called Evusheld, is a combination of two long-acting synthetic antibodies: tixagevimab and cilgavimab, which are derived from B-cells donated by patients who have recovered from the […]
AstraZeneca seeks approval for its new drug, which utilizes antibodies—for a potential alternative to vaccination. In a record-high trade deficit, Americans bought more foreign goods and services than ever in August. What does that say about the economy? In China, another real estate company says it can’t pay its debts, fueling concerns about China’s property […]
Europe’s drug regulator said on Friday that it could not confirm whether AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine has any influence on higher risks for unusual blood clots associated with low levels of blood platelets in women and younger adults. The European Medicine Agency (EMA) said in a statement it was requested by the European Commission to provide […]
LONDON—No new cases of rare and severe blood clots following vaccination with AstraZeneca’s COVID shot have been reported in Britain in recent weeks after a decision to restrict its use in under-40s, British scientists said on Wednesday. Vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia and thrombosis (VITT) is a combination of blood clots and low platelet levels which has […]
The Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines for COVID-19 are nearly as effective against the Delta variant as they are against the previously dominant Alpha variant, when the person receives two doses of the vaccine, a new study published on Wednesday suggests. The highly contagious Delta variant, first identified in India in late 2020, is now the […]
The United States will start sharing its stockpile of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine with other countries, President Joe Biden’s administration said on Monday. The United States plans to share all the doses it has, provided they pass safety reviews. As many as 60 million doses will be sent to other countries in the coming months. The […]
