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Pharma leaders shoot down WHO voluntary pool for patent rights on Covid-19 products

By Ed Silverman

Drew Angerer/Getty Images

At a forum Thursday, pharma leaders expressed resistance to a voluntary WHO pool to collect patent rights that could be useful in the pandemic response.

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STAT Plus: Medical societies have ‘extensive’ financial ties with drug and device makers

By Ed Silverman

Adobe

A new study looked at 10 professional medical societies and found that none of them had a leadership free of financial ties to drug and device makers.

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STAT Plus: FDA finds ‘unacceptable’ levels of a possible carcinogen in a widely used diabetes pill

By Ed Silverman

Andrew Harnik/AP

The FDA found traces of NDMA in extended-release versions of metformin — but not in immediate-release versions — and has asked manufacturers to take action.

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Big gene therapy names line up behind experimental Covid-19 vaccine

By Matthew Herper

EMILIE PICKERING FOR STAT

An early stage vaccine is drawing interest from James Wilson, a gene therapy pioneer, as well as AveXis, the gene therapy unit of the drug giant Novartis.

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STAT Plus: A biotech company tries to retrofit a lung drug to prevent Covid-19’s after effects

By Damian Garde

FeatureChina via AP

PureTech Health, a biotech company in Boston, believes it might have a treatment for Covid-19 survivors facing the risk of long-term lung injuries.

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Thursday, May 28, 2020

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