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US FDA Authorizes Use of Merck Anti-Covid Pill

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the Merck anti-covid coronavirus pill on Thursday, just one day after it OK'd the use of Pfizer's pill for the treatment of the virus. Called molnupiravir, the pill had already been authorized for...

Merck Finds Covid Pill is Less Effective Than Previously Estimated

German pharmaceutical company Merck said on Friday that its anti-Covid pill was found to be 20% less effective in a final analysis of a clinical trial. The drug, called molnupiravir, was initially estimated to cut the risk of hospitalization and...

Bourla Says Pfizer’s Anti-Covid Pill “Will Save Millions of Lives”

Pfizer's brand-new anti-Covid pill called "Paxlovid" reduces hospitalization and death risk by 89%, the company states as it readies to place the results of its studies before the FDA by the end of November. Taking the pills developed by Pfizer...

Greek American Physician Helped Develop Merck Corona Pill

  A Greek-American, Dr. Nick Kartsonis is the Senior Vice President in charge of global clinical trials at Merck Research Laboratories, the company that has developed the first pill authorized to combat the coronavirus. Merck pharmaceuticals developed the first antiviral pill...

“Game-Changer” Anti-Covid Pill Authorized in Great Britain

Molnupiravir, the world's first anti-Covid pill to treat those who are already suffering with the infection, received approval from UK medical authorities on Thursday. The oral drug is the first pill developed to fight the virus for which the clinical...