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Safety and efficacy of using diffrent vaccines as 1st and 2nd dose to be known (Eagle News) – Some 3,000 participants are targeted for clinical trials set for July that will focus on mixing and matching vaccines for first and second doses to be able to determine if this is safe and effective for Filipinos. The Department of Science and Technology (DOST) said that the clinical trials will use a total of five vaccines, […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US biotech company Moderna announced Covid vaccine is 90 percent effective against all forms of the disease and 95 percent effective against severe disease. The new results come from its ongoing Phase 3 clinical trial involving more 30,000 people across the United States, and the headline efficacy figure is a slight decrease from an earlier figure of 94.1 percent published in the New England Journal of Medicine in December. […]
(Eagle News) — Two COVID-19 vaccines have now been cleared for clinical trials in the Philippines, according to the Food and Drug and Drug Administration (FDA). This was after it had approved on Friday, Jan. 8, 2021 the vaccine developed by Clover Biopharmaceuticals AUS Pty Ltd of China, days after it had approved the vaccine made by Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. With this development, two vaccines against COVID-19 are now given […]
(Eagle News)–The Department of Health is eyeing five hospitals as sites for the conduct of Phase 3 clinical trials of the potential COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by China-based Sinovac Biotech. Health Undersecretary Ma. Rosario Vergeire said these were the Philippine General Hospital, Manila Doctors Hospital, the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine, the Vicente Sotto Medical Center, and San Lazaro Hospital. So far, she said the potential vaccine was under the Phase 3 clinical trial in Brazil. […]
(Eagle News) — Clinical trials in the Philippines for Japan’s antiviral flu drug Avigan (Favipiravir) will start on Aug. 10. Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire said in a television interview this was after the Philippines received the tablets, which the Japanese embassy said had “potential to prevent viral replication, even as its effectiveness against the novel coronavirus (has) yet to be established.” The embassy said the tablets for 100 patients who are part of the […]
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) — More than 130 therapies are being investigated as possible treatments for the coronavirus, a leading pharmaceutical industry association said Thursday. Unprecedented efforts to collaborate across the pharmaceutical industry have significantly accelerated the search for safe and effective treatments for the novel coronavirus, the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations said. “Over 130 COVID-19 therapeutics are under investigation,” IFPMA director Thomas Cueni told a virtual briefing, along with a number of pharmaceutical […]
