Chris Lo

All articles by Chris Lo

1. Coronavirus company news summary – Daewoong’s niclosamide removes SARS-CoV2 from lungs in animal tests – GSK trials RA drug against Covid-19 pneumonia

   10 June South Korea-based Daewoong Pharmaceutical has found that its anti-parasitic drug niclosamide removed SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes…
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   10 Jun
2. Coronavirus company news summary

   3 April 2020 Novartis, in alliance with Incyte, has announced plans to assess Jakavi (ruxolitinib) in a Phase III clinical…
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   3 Apr
3. US overtakes China with largest number of coronavirus cases

   The US now has more confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) than any other country with 85,996 cases, surpassing China…
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   27 Mar
4. US overtakes China with largest number of coronavirus cases

   The US now has more confirmed cases of novel coronavirus (Covid-19) than any other country with 85,996 cases, surpassing China…
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   27 Mar
5. Precision medicine: what barriers remain?

   The importance of the individual has been widely established in medicine since time immemorial. The well-worn adage that physicians should…
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   2 Mar
6. Debate: can US pharma be taxed into behaving?

   As Democratic candidates jockey for position in the campaign to win their party’s nomination in the 2020 US presidential race,…
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   2 Jan
7. Bias remorse: are cancer drug trials clear enough on outcomes?

   With cancer cases on the rise globally, partly driven by the world’s growing and ageing population, it’s understandable that drug…
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   19 Dec
8. Public image limited: the role of PR in pharma

   The pharma industry operates at the sensitive intersection between medicine and money. While pharmaceutical products save countless lives every year…
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   18 Dec
9. Nobel Prize 2019: how a breathtaking discovery unlocked new drugs

   “It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the…
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   17 Dec
10. The dengue vaccine dilemma

    The Philippines is in the midst of a national epidemic of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne tropical disease that causes flu-like…
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    16 Dec