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- Keeping Your Vision Safe During a Natural Disasterhttps://modernod.com/news/keeping-your-vision-safe-during-a-natural-disaster/2477424/Parkhurst Nuvision in San Antonio, Texas, posted the following advisory to its patients, which providing tips for managing vision needs in an emergency. When faced with the forces of nature – in particular flooding and contaminated waters – people who rely on contact lenses to see well fa
- Topcon Announces Customer Initiatives to Combat Global COVID-19 Crisishttps://modernod.com/news/topcon-announces-customer-initiatives-to-combat-global-covid-19-crisis/2477421/As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to escalate across the globe, Topcon Healthcare has announced a series of initiatives and programs designed to support its customers during this time of unprecedented challenges. As healthcare providers, eye doctors are required to be in close contact wit
- Trump Touts Drug That FDA Says Isn’t Yet Approved for Virushttps://modernod.com/news/trump-touts-drug-that-fda-says-isnt-yet-approved-for-virus/2477422/The Food and Drug Administration has been told by President Donald Trump to see if it can expand the use of a decades-old malaria drug as an experimental treatment for coronavirus patients, as
- Roche Initiates Phase 3 Trial of Actemra/RoActemra in Patients With Severe COVID-19 Pneumoniahttps://modernod.com/news/roche-initiates-phase-3-trial-of-actemra-roactemra-in-patients-with-severe-covid-19-pneumonia/2477410/Roche announced it is working with the FDA to initiate a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled phase 3 clinical trial in collaboration with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a part of the US Health and Human Services Office of th
- Chinese Official Claims Fujifilm’s Avigan “Clearly Effective” in Treating COVID-19https://modernod.com/news/chinese-official-claims-fujifilms-avigan-clearly-effective-in-treating-covid-19/2477411/Results of clinical studies conducted in China suggest that Fujifilm’s Avigan (favipiravir) may be effective at treating patients with COVID-19. Zhang Xinmin, director of the China National Center for Biotechnology Development under the Ministry of Science and Technology, remarked “it
- Senate Passes Coronavirus Emergency Aid, Sending Plan To Presidenthttps://modernod.com/news/senate-passes-coronavirus-emergency-aid-sending-plan-to-president/2477409/The Senate approved a new round of emergency funding to address the coronavirus pandemic, sending the legislation to President Trump, who is expected to sign it soon, according to an NPR
- Quidel Receives Emergency Use Authorization for Molecular COVID-19 Diagnostic Assayhttps://modernod.com/news/quidel-receives-emergency-use-authorization-for-molecular-covid-19-diagnostic-assay/2477407/Quidel, a provider of rapid diagnostic testing solutions, announced that the company has received Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the FDA to market its Lyra SARS-CoV-2 Assay, a real-time RT-PCR test intended for the qualitative detection of nucleic acid from SARS-CoV-2 in nasopharyngeal or
- Regeneron’s Novel COVID-19 Antibody Program Has Potential to Enter Human Clinical Studies by Early Summerhttps://modernod.com/news/regenerons-novel-covid-19-antibody-program-has-potential-to-enter-human-clinical-studies-by-early-summer/2477404/Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced the latest progress in its efforts to discover and develop a novel multi-antibody cocktail that can be administered as prophylaxis before exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus or as treatment for those already infected. Regeneron scientists have now isolated
- Ribomic Enters License Agreement with AJU Pharma for RBM-007 in AMDhttps://modernod.com/news/ribomic-enters-license-agreement-with-aju-pharma-for-rbm-007-in-amd/2477400/Ribomic announced that it has signed a license agreement with Korean pharmaceutical company AJU Pharm Co. for RBM-007 for the indication of the exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in the territory of Korea and Southeast Asia (Singapore, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Mala
- The Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society (OOSS) Releases Statement Regarding COVID-19 Outbreakhttps://modernod.com/news/ooss-releases-statement-regarding-covid-19-outbreak/2477392/The Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society (OOSS) has released a statement to its membership providing information and resources on how to establish ASC procedures if your community is directly affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. The statement reads: Dear Colleagues, In the cu