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Companies Seek EUA for New COVID Monoclonal Antibody Treatment

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. An independent data monitoring committee is recommending stopping enrollment of a phase 3 trial of a monoclonal antibody for COVID-19 because interim results indicate an 85% (P = .002) reduction in hospitalizations or death, two companies have announced. Vir Biotechnology and […]

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Why Are Vaccines Still in Short Supply?

Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech covid-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant. The U.S. government has invested billions of dollars in manufacturing, used a wartime act dozens of times to boost supplies and yet […]

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Emails show FDA worry with growers after romaine outbreaks

After repeated food poisoning outbreaks tied to romaine lettuce, a U.S. food safety official shared his concerns in an internal email, saying the produce industry’s water testing “failed in an epic and tragic way.” How the industry tests water to grow leafy greens is “unacceptable” and needs to change, James Gorny, a senior adviser for […]

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There’s really not much proof probiotics work: Study

Over the past decade, probiotic dietary supplements have turned into a multi-million dollar industry, taken by almost 4 million adults and prescribed by up to 60 percent of health care providers. Yet the scientific community has known little about whether or not they actually work. But this is likely to change, thanks to two back-to-back […]