Vikki Spit has been left “completely crushed” after her fiance Zion died from a rare complication after having the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine. The couple met in a London rock club and toured for many years as glam punk band SPiT LiKE THiS before settling down in Alston, near the Northumberland-Cumbria border in 2014. But Zion,… Read More »
By Michael Le Page , Clare Wilson , Jessica Hamzelou , Sam Wong , Graham Lawton , Adam Vaughan , Conrad Quilty-Harper and Layal Liverpool People wait to get their vaccines against Covid-19 in a night club turned mass vaccination center in Stockholm, Sweden. Carl-Olof Zimmerman/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images Latest coronavirus news as… Read More »
The director general of the country’s health authority, Soeren Brostroem, said Denmark was able to halt use of the vaccine because it had the pandemic under control and could rely on two other vaccines, from Pfizer and Moderna. The Danish announcement is another setback for the AstraZeneca shot, which is easy to store and relatively… Read More »
“The highest levels of NIH are very concerned,” said Dr. Avindra Nath, intramural clinical director and a leader of viral research at the National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, an NIH division. “Everyone’s hopes are on a vaccine, and if you have a major complication the whole thing could get derailed.” A great deal… Read More »
Loading the player… Results from a U.S. trial of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine may have included “outdated information” and that could mean the company provided an incomplete view of efficacy data, American federal health officials said early Tuesday. AstraZeneca said in a statement that the data it released Monday included cases up to Feb. 17, as… Read More »
FILE PHOTO: The company logo for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is displayed on a screen on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo (Reuters) – AstraZeneca Plc said on Wednesday it plans to sell the European and Russian rights for a schizophrenia drug to… Read More »
AstraZeneca already has a Tagrisso approval for patients with previously untreated, EGFR-mutated lung cancer. But it’s shoring up its case with some clutch new data. Friday, the British drugmaker said Tagrisso had beaten out Roche’s rival drug Tarceva and AstraZeneca’s own Iressa at helping patients live longer. The showing came as part of the phase 3 Flaura… Read More »