The biopharmaceutical industry is working on a counterattack against the COVID-19 pandemic. While the United States has thus far played defense in the battle against the coronavirus, a potent offensive weapon is quietly being honed for deployment: our biopharmaceutical industry. This industry, one of our nation’s jewels, attracts some of the world’s best, brightest, and…

A vaccine to halt the coronavirus pandemic could be available as early as this year for vulnerable groups such as health-care workers, even faster than initially thought, according to a key group at the heart of the global development effort. The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which is funding nine different coronavirus vaccine projects, has…

(CNN) – A new week in the coronavirus pandemic is beginning with a United States case count approaching 1 million and several cities and states preparing to loosen stay-at-home restrictions. There have been 54,883 coronavirus deaths reported nationally and more than 965,000 cases of the virus in the US.  As the numbers continue to climb, several state and city…

The FDA granted two emergency authorizations to blood-filtering devices designed to assist the distressed immune and respiratory systems of patients with severe cases of COVID-19. ALung Technologies’ Hemolung system is designed to treat patients suffering from acute respiratory failure by slowly removing excess carbon dioxide directly from the bloodstream. The company said its dialysis-like machine…

“This is our saving grace, and if we can save one person it’ll all be worth it.” Penni Cox wakes up before dawn, taking her coffee to-go as she makes the 10-minute drive down the road from her home to the General Motorscampus in Kokomo, Indiana. She arrives at the Engineering Resource Center as the sun…

A health crisis such as COVID-19 goes beyond international borders and boundaries, and the global medical technology industry is privileged to serve a critical role in supporting the health care providers who are leading the response to the coronavirus in India and around the world. Around the world, more and more people are sheltering in…

COVID-19 has gained international notoriety as a respiratory infection that may cause fever, coughing, and difficulty breathing. But those aren’t the only symptoms that have been linked to the new coronavirus disease. Some people with COVID-19 have presented with less typical symptoms, including nausea, diarrhea, delirium, chickenpox-like lesions, and more. “Respiratory symptoms tend to be…

The Food and Drug Administration has “all but given up” its oversight responsibility on coronavirus antibody tests, one the country’s top infectious disease experts said Sunday. “We have the wild, wild West for testing right now,” Dr. Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota,…

The Jefferson Health System has enough high-tech lab machines to process 10,000 diagnostic tests for the coronavirus every day. Instead, the Philadelphia-based network of 14 hospitals is doing only about 1,000 tests a day. The problem, Jefferson Health president Bruce A. Meyer said last week, is that hospitals across the United States are grappling with a global…