With 25 companies testing their vaccine candidates on humans and getting ready to immunise hundred millions of people once the products are shown to work, the question of who pays for any claims for damages in case of side effects has been a tricky point in supply...
A team of international experts, involving researchers from AstraZeneca, say that in a very small number of cases — about one in 100,000 in the UK — the vaccine can set off a chain reaction which leads to the body confusing its own blood platelets for fragments of virus. The British-m...
Yet the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, and the resulting sanctions imposed on China by countries including the UK, affected the atmosphere for western companies that had remained in Shanghai. Farmer, by now head of ICI China, and his wife departed from Crescent Avenue for Hong Kong in...
The UK-based pharmaceutical company announced Thursday that it had signed two additional deals involving the vaccine, which is currently being tested in about 10,000 adult volunteers in Britain. AstraZeneca (AZN) has agreed a $750 million deal to produce 300 million doses with international foun...
on a way forward to provide relief to Americans and restart a ravaged economy. While House Democrats passed a sprawling $3 trillion package last week to try to mitigate the damage from the crisis, Senate Republicans have showed less urgency to approve more federal assistance.–Jacob Pramuk ...