January is National Blood Donor Month, and it is a time to spread awareness on the importance of blood donation. Donating blood is a lifesaving (and life-sustaining) process that helps many individuals receive the gift of life. These are t ...
Since the start of the pandemic, we have all come a long way. The FDA has granted EUA’s for Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, and Pfizer (for ages 12-15 and ages 5-11). Meanwhile, Pfizer was fully approved for use by the FDA for people ages 16 and up. ...
Clinical trials are research studies performed on humans to help evaluate a new medical treatment, drug, or device. However, just like a disease, there is always a possibility that each of these medical products may have different outcomes for spec ...
Our mission as an Integrated Research Organization (IRO) is to diversify clinical trials by innovating healthcare for underrepresented populations while supporting the well-being of local communities. For this reason, we have developed an e ...
Why volunteer in clinical trials? Here's a summary of the reasons why clinical trials are important Clinical trials are research studies that use human participants to help evaluate new medical treatments, drugs, or devices. They are an essential to ...
The 2020 targets set by UNAIDS to control global HIV/AIDS infection will not be met with "COVID-19 risks blowing HIV progress way off course," officials reported. According to the 2020 Global AIDS Update, 1.7 million people worldwide were newly infec ...
With rising numbers of COVID-19 infections and as the fight against the novel coronavirus continues, Novavax received $1.6 billion in federal funding to support the clinical development of the company’s vaccine candidate, NVX‑CoV2373. Gaithersburg, ...
COVID-19 has unleashed a logistical conundrum for pharma lab leaders: How do you keep momentum in therapeutics development, when, like all workplaces, most labs have had to either restrict use or close altogether? The answer lies, at least in part, i ...
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Milken Institute, the nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank, and First Person, a San Francisco design and storytelling company, together tell the urgent story of the global race for a COVID-19 vaccine in a newly released ...
With the U.S. surpassing 2 million cases of COVID-19, infectious disease experts have learned a tremendous amount about SARS-CoV-2's transmissibility, the effects of infection, and how (or how not) to treat it. David Aronoff, MD, of Vanderbilt Unive ...
