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The results ... herald a new era in treatment for women diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer who carry a BRCA mutation.

AstraZeneca's Lynparza shown to put brakes on ovarian cancer

Given as a maintenance therapy to reinforce initial chemotherapy, Lynparza halted or reversed tumour growth in 60...

22 Oct 2018 8:54 AM IST

AstraZeneca to distribute Sun Pharma cancer medicines in China

Shares of Sun Pharma rose as much as 5.4 per cent to a nine-week high after the announcement.

6 Nov 2019 12:49 PM IST

Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine 'encouraging' for older age groups

Older individuals are at disproportionate risk of severe COVID-19 and so any vaccine adopted for use must be effective...

19 Nov 2020 2:38 PM IST

A lab technician looks fills a test tube during research on coronavirus, COVID-19, at Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Janssen Pharmaceutical in Beerse, Belgium. (AP)

Race for virus vaccine could leave some countries behind

Rich countries are rushing to place advance orders for the inevitably limited supply to guarantee their citizens get...

18 Jun 2020 12:01 PM IST

AstraZeneca Plc has approached rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc about a potential merger. (AFP Photo)

AstraZeneca approaches Gilead about potential merger

Gilead, AstraZeneca and several other drugmakers are racing to develop vaccines for COVID-19

7 Jun 2020 4:06 PM IST

Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot. In research published Monday July 20, 2020 in the journal Lancet, scientists said that they found their experimental COVID-19 vaccine produced a dual immune response in people aged 18 to 55. (University of Oxford via AP)

Five key takeaways from Monday's data on experimental coronavirus...

Oxford University and AstraZeneca announced their vaccine's success in inducing immune responses in volunteers without...

21 July 2020 1:37 PM IST

A medical person wearing protective equipment holds swab samples at a medical facility in Moscow on July 16, 2020. (AFP)

Russia to mass-produce its experimental COVID-19 vaccine

The first human trial of the vaccine, a month-long test on 38 people, ended this week, and Phase III trial is set to...

16 July 2020 8:26 PM IST

The Oxford vaccine candidate has been administered to two volunteers at the Bharathi Hospital in Pune.

Two volunteers who were given Oxford vaccine are fine

The vaccine trials are being conducted by the Serum Institute of India in Pune

27 Aug 2020 12:29 PM IST

A man wears a face mask as he passes by graffiti reading No vaccine, No tracking, No COVID. (AP)

Coronavirus vaccine should be mandatory in Australia: PM

Anticipating a backlash from vocal anti-vaccine activists, Morrison said the stakes were too high to allow the disease...

20 Aug 2020 1:22 PM IST

Wockhardt to supply millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccines to UK. (PTI Photo)

India's Wockhardt to supply COVID-19 vaccines to UK

UK government reserved one fill-and-finish production line at Wockhardt subsidiary in Wrexham, Wales for exclusive use...

3 Aug 2020 4:27 PM IST

The DCGI order came after SII submitted the recommendations of the Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB), United Kingdom and DSMB India and sought permission to restart enrolment in the clinical trials. (AP)

SII to restart COVID vaccine trials as India tally breaches 50L mark

The trials of the Oxford COVID-19 vaccine candidate were halted world over after one volunteer developed 'unexplained...

17 Sept 2020 12:32 PM IST

Pausing trials for COVID-19 vaccine of AstraZeneca due to safety concerns is nothing new, scientists said while pointing out that trials are experiments which may or may not work. (AFP)

Trials will have ups and downs, say scientists

Adverse effects were noted on two human subjects who volunteered for the phase 3 trials of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

11 Sept 2020 1:15 PM IST