A U.S. health advisory panel on April 14 is set to review six reported cases of rare blood clots in women who received Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine one day after federal regulators paused the use of the shot to assess the issue.
U.S. federal health agencies on April 13 recommended pausing the use of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine after six women under 50 given the shot developed rare blood clots, dealing a fresh setback to efforts to tackle the pandemic.
Emergent BioSolutions’ Phase III trial of SARS-CoV-2 Immune Globulin Intravenous (Human) (COVID-HIG) to treat hospitalized patients with COVID-19 showed that the addition of the treatment to Gilead Sciences’ remdesivir did not provide clinical benefit compared to standard of care plus placebo in hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients with symptoms for less than 12 days.
A large plant being used to manufacture Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine was cleared by U.S. regulators on March 23, setting the stage for the weekly U.S. supply to surge more than 20 percent.
Johnson & Johnson will launch the newly approved drug Ponvory for adults with relapsing multiple sclerosis (MS) in the United States during early April 2021 at a similar price point to rival treatments, the company’s Janssen Pharmaceutical unit said on March 19.
Long-term data from Janssen’s Phase III DISCOVER-2a trial show that Tremfya (guselkumab), a selective IL-23 inhibitor, lead to skin clearance and joint symptom relief for up to two years in patients with active psoriatic arthritis (PsA).
The European Union’s drugs regulator on March 11 approved Johnson & Johnson’s single dose Covid-19 vaccine, as the bloc seeks to speed up a stuttering inoculation campaign and boost its supplies.
The United States plans to double the country’s order of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, procuring an additional 100 million doses, a White House official said on March 10.
French healthcare company Sanofi will provide Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing support to U.S. peer Johnson & Johnson.
As the world awaits the production and distribution of hundreds of millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines that have been granted emergency use authorization, biopharmaceutical companies and manufacturers are developing the next wave of vaccines and therapeutics to combat the pandemic.
