WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. health advisory panel on Wednesday began a review of six reported cases of rare blood clots in women who received Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, a day after federal regulators paused its use to assess the issue.FILE PHOTO: Vials with a sticker reading, “COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine / Injection only” and […]
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Special Report: Insider alleges Eli Lilly blocked her efforts to sound alarms about U.S. drug factory
(Reuters) – On a chilly spring morning in 2019, Amrit Mula arrived in her office at pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and Co’s factory in Branchburg, New Jersey, to find a desk drawer open that she had kept locked. Her files were missing.FILE PHOTO: An Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is pictured at 50 […]
Trials of retooled vaccines for variants could take months: U.S. FDA
(Reuters) – Drugmakers should test any COVID-19 vaccines that have been retooled to combat new variants of the coronavirus in clinical trials designed to track the immune response of hundreds of test subjects, which could take months, U.S. regulators said on Monday.Slideshow ( 3 images )Vaccine developers may need to modify their shots to provide […]
Canadians returning across U.S. land border will need negative COVID tests: PM
Slideshow ( 2 images )OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada will ramp up its fight against COVID-19 by obliging citizens returning home from the United States by land to show a negative COVID-19 test, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Tuesday. Everyone one arriving in Canada by air already has to prove they took a negative […]
Americans scramble for appointments for second COVID-19 vaccine dose
(Reuters) – As more Americans ready for their second COVID-19 vaccine shot, some patients are falling through the cracks of an increasingly complex web of providers and appointment systems.FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker prepares a syringe with the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine at a pop-up vaccination site operated by SOMOS Community Care during the coronavirus disease […]