Over the course of the past two years, two presidential administrations and the U.S. Congress have set considerable sums of money aside for testing for the COVID-19 pandemic, but reports of shortages of tests have prompted a response from Capitol Hill.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine have shown how nanoparticles could be used to reduce neutrophil clumping in inflamed lungs – making them a pathway for diagnosis and treatment of acute lung inflammation (ALI) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Pfizer Inc.'s oral antiviral for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 will soon be available in Great Britain after the U.K. Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) granted conditional authorization for the medicine, called Paxlovid (PF-07321332, ritonavir).
Preliminary data from a phase IIIb study of Johnson & Johnson’s Ad26.COV2.S COVID-19 vaccine showed a homologous booster dose was 85% effective against hospitalization in participants from South Africa.