Dr. Leonard Schleifer, the CEO of pharmaceutical company Regeneron, is optimistic that there will eventually be a breakthrough when it comes to combating the disease, whether that comes in the form of a drug or a vaccine. But there will still be obstacles, he told CNN's Jack Tapper on Sunday's State of the Union.Regeneron is…
A GSK lab in London.Oli Scarff | Getty ImagesThere were several major developments over the last week with the medical community marking progress in all three critical areas: testing, treatments and vaccines.Experts have welcomed positive data on potential treatments and progress on testing, but warn that vaccine timelines look ambitious and argue more thought is…
First results of human trials expected in June By Mike Moffitt, SFGATE Published 3:12 pm PDT, Thursday, April 30, 2020 This screen grab taken from video issued by Britain's Oxford University shows microbiologist Elisa Granato being injected as part of the first human trials in the UK for a potential coronavirus vaccine on April 23, 2020.…
April 22, 2020 | 3:37pm | Updated April 22, 2020 | 4:26pm Martin Shkreli put a ring on it. The 37-year-old disgraced Pharma Bro has a fiancée, his attorneys said Wednesday in a compassionate release request to spring Shkreli from a minimum-security prison in Pennsylvania. Shkreli is asking to spend the remainder of his seven-year…
U.S.|Grand Juror in Breonna Taylor Case Says Deliberations Were MisrepresentedThe Kentucky attorney general’s office said it would release the panel’s recordings after a grand juror contended in a court filing that its discussions were inaccurately characterized.Breonna Taylor's family and the lawyer Ben Crump, right, said the charges a Kentucky grand jury agreed upon in the…
(John Finney Photography/Moment/Getty Images) An abnormally bad season of weather may have had a significant impact on the death toll from both World War I and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, according to new research, with many more lives being lost due to torrential rain and plummeting temperatures. Through a detailed analysis of an ice…