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Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech SE (Nasdaq: BNTX) today announced preliminary data from the most advanced of four investigational vaccine candidates from their BNT162 mRNA-based vaccine program, Project Lightspeed, against SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing the current global pandemic. The BNT162 program is evaluating at least four experimental vaccines, each of which represents a unique combination of mRNA…

Pfizer and Merck KGaA’s Bavencio has itself a leg up in the ultra-competitive bladder cancer market. Late Tuesday, the FDA greenlighted the drug in the so-called first-line maintenance setting for urothelial carcinoma patients who have completed an initial round of chemo and haven’t seen their disease progress. The verdict makes Bavencio the only med in the PD-1/PD-L1…

Gov. Brian Kemp on Monday extended the state’s public health emergency, certain business restrictions and his shelter-in-place order for the medically fragile amid a record spike in new cases of the coronavirus. The governor also announced Monday that he’s set to go on a statewide fly-around tour ahead of the July Fourth weekend to encourage Georgians to…

The Office of Governor Brian P. Kemp announced the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency is releasing a total of three million cloth face coverings in July, to the Georgia Department of Education and 39 county emergency management agencies across the state. The cloth face coverings are washable and reusable, and will help protect…

Cleaner air, healthier soils, and improved human health – goals of a Congressional climate crisis action plan released today – are just a few climate change solutions made possible by biotech innovation, according to the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO). The report, “Solving the Climate Crisis: The Congressional Action Plan for a Clean Energy Economy and…