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Merck and Baylor College of Medicine collaborate to advance COVID-19 vaccine manufacturing platform
The Merck-Baylor teams will improve the manufacturing platform for the CoV RBD219-N1 vaccine candidate, which was originally developed to target SARS in 2011-2016.
Biocon Biologics gets DCGI nod for blood purification device to treat COVID-19 patients
India’s drug regulator, DCGI has approved CytoSorb, an extracorporeal blood purification (EBP) device, developed by Biocon Biologics,to reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines levels in confirmed COVID patients with confirmed or imminent respiratory failure.
US FDA approves intravenous artesunate to treat severe malaria
Prior to this approval, IV artesunate was only available to patients through the FDA's Expanded Access program, which allowed the U.S. CDC to provide IV artesunate to U.S. patients with severe malaria
