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Pfizer Asks FDA To Approve Its COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use

11:59am November 20, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

The pharmaceutical giant and partner BioNTech announced Friday that they are submitting a formal request to the Food and Drug Administration, just days after the vaccine was shown to be 95% effective.

Pfizer plans to file within days with the Food and Drug Administration to allow emergency use of its COVID-19 vaccine.

Health & Safety

Pfizer To Seek FDA OK For COVID-19 Vaccine 'Within Days'

9:47am November 18, 2020

by Joe Palca

The vaccine was found to be 95% effective in an updated study analysis. Safety data required by the Food and Drug Administration showed no serious concerns, the company said.

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The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine needs to be stored at minus 70 Celsius. Health care providers will need to store it either in dry ice for shorter stints or in specialized freezers.

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Why Does Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine Need To Be Kept Colder Than Antarctica?

11:53am November 17, 2020

by Selena Simmons-Duffin

One of the two leading vaccine candidates requires deep, deep freezing. Here's how communities are working to solve for this and how the new Moderna vaccine could help.

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Albert Bourla, chairman and CEO of Pfizer, sold millions of dollars' worth of company stock on Monday as part of a preset plan. But NPR found irregularities about when the CEO entered into that plan.

Pfizer CEO Sold Millions In Stock After Coronavirus Vaccine News, Raising Questions

8:32pm November 11, 2020

by Tom Dreisbach

Pfizer's CEO sold $5.6 million worth of stock on Monday. The company says the stock sale was made as part of a preset plan. But NPR found irregularities about when the CEO entered into that plan.

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The first patient enrolled in Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore receives an injection in May.

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Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Won't Be Ready By Election Day

1:29pm October 16, 2020

by Richard Harris

Pfizer Chairman and CEO Albert Bourla said in a public statement Friday that the company won't have data showing that the vaccine is safe before the third week of November at the earliest.

The agreement also would allow the federal government to acquire an additional 500 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine.

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U.S. To Get 100 Million Doses of Pfizer Coronavirus Vaccine In $1.95 Billion Deal

1:41pm July 22, 2020

by Sydney Lupkin

If the company's vaccine candidate pans out, Americans can receive it for free under the deal. The arrangement is part of the U.S. government's push to have a vaccine widely available by January.

Pfizer said it would be abandoning its neuroscience development programs and allocating its spending elsewhere.

Pfizer Halts Research Into Alzheimer's And Parkinson's Treatments

2:32pm January 08, 2018

by Colin Dwyer

The pharmaceutical giant said it would be abandoning its neuroscience development programs and allocating its spending elsewhere. The move also means the company will lay off some 300 employees.

This combination of undated photos provided by the Arkansas Department of Correction shows the death row inmates in question. Top row (from left): Jack Harold Jones Jr., Marcel Williams, Stacey E. Johnson, Ledell Lee. Bottom row (from left): Jason F. McGe

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Courts Block 7 Executions Set For 11-Day Span In Arkansas

8:18pm April 14, 2017

A county judge and the state supreme court ordered the state not to put the inmates to death. The larger case challenges lethal drugs. The other argues that the inmate is not sane.

Syphilis can be wiped out with one to three shots of penicillin.

Penicillin Shortage Could Be A Problem For People With Syphilis

8:39am May 23, 2016

by Rae Ellen Bichell

The medication is the only one available to prevent an infected pregnant woman from passing the disease to a fetus. Pfizer says the shortage should be over in July.

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Pfizer's corporate headquarters in midtown Manhattan.

Pfizer To Stop Selling Drugs For Use In Lethal Injections

10:25pm May 13, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The drugmaker was the "last remaining open-market source of drugs used in executions," The New York Times reported. Other U.S. and European firms had already blocked drugs from use in executions.