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Roche: With a turnover of $53 billion, Swiss company Roche is the biggest pharmaceutical company in the world. The company is at the forefront of oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmology, and infectious diseases. Its biggest products are Ocrevus (for multiple sclerosis), Hemlibra (for haemophilia A), Tecentriq (for urothelial carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma, …

FDA Commissioner Grants EUA to Pfizer Vaccine Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine has been granted emergency use authorization (EUA) by the US FDA. The New York Times, referring to an anonymous authoritative source, reports that FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn was under immense pressure from President Trump to allow EUA for the …

The “covilution” (covid induced revolution) change is occurring in most industries, and more importantly, consumer behavior, globally. In the pharma industry, traditional pharma marketing methods are now becoming mostly dysfunctional and ineffective. Pharma marketing leaders are still confused and not very clear about how to respond to the changed situation. …

After US manufacturer Pfizer’s 90% effectiveness claim of its COVID-19 vaccine, and Russia’s Sputnik V’s claim of 92% effectiveness, now, US company Moderna is saying that its vaccine is 94.5% effective against the virus that has turned the world upside down. Wonder who’s going to be the first to claim …

A Singapore company has developed a breathalyzer test that can detect COVID-19 within a minute. The breath test, which uses in-built machine learning algorithms, claims to have achieved more than 90 per cent accuracy (with sensitivity of 93 percent and specificity of 95 percent) in a pilot clinical trial involving …

Hand surgery is a super specialty that deals with the upper extremity, from hand to shoulder. It is an amazing field that incorporates techniques from orthopaedics, plastic surgery, and general surgery to neurosurgery, vascular, and microvascular surgery. The dimension of hand surgery includes reconstruction of acute trauma, hand fracture fixation …

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder caused by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta, which results in reduced production of a neurotransmitter named striatal dopamine, and overproduction of alpha-synuclein, resulting in the formation of Lewy bodies. PD affects 1-2 per 1000 of the …

Roche’s SARS-CoV-2 antibody test included in Moderna vaccine trials After receiving US FDA emergency use authorization for its Elecsys® Anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody test on November 25, 2020, Roche has partnered with Moderna to utilize the test in the latter’s mRNA-1273 vaccine research trials. The antibody test measures the quantity of antibodies …

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) is the commonest functional gastrointestinal disorder, and affects about 20% of the world population at some point in their lives. It is a chronic, and sometimes quite a disabling, disorder of the large bowel function. Symptoms include defecation-related abdominal pain, usually associated with diarrhoea or constipation, …

  According to The New York Times’ “Corona Vaccine Tracker”, till Nov 17, 2020, there are 54 vaccines in clinical trials on humans, and at least 87 preclinical vaccines that are under active investigation in animals. Till date, 38 potential vaccines for COVID-19 are undergoing Phase 1 trials (safety and …