World Malaria Day 2020

This public health crisis highlights the importance of robust health systems to respond to outbreaks like COVID-19 and to control other deadly diseases such as malaria. On World Malaria Day, April 25, we are calling on the global health community to uphold progress and commitments made in the fight to end malaria.

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Going the extra mile to keep clinical trials on track during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sofia* has breast cancer. Each month she travels from her home in Eastern Europe to a hospital in northern Italy to participate in a clinical trial. Traveling such distances for a clinical trial is uncommon, but Sofia was eager to participate in this particular trial for her condition.

But everything changed when the coronavirus (COVID-19) took hold on the continent. With transport links rapidly shutting down due to the pandemic, Sofia was no longer able to make the trip to Italy. With only two weeks’ worth of medication remaining and very little prospect of being able to obtain any …

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Novartis to sponsor large clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

  • Novartis has reached an agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to proceed with a Phase III clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 disease

  • Trial is designed and implemented quickly to address the need for science-based investigation following early preclinical and clinical evidence1,2,3 that hydroxychloroquine may help hospitalized patients with COVID-19 disease 
     
  • Company will also make its hydroxychloroquine intellectual property available to support broad access if …
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Novartis acquires Amblyotech, pursuing novel digital therapy for children and adult patients with “lazy eye”

  • Technology has potential to reimagine treatment for amblyopia (“lazy eye”), a leading cause of vision loss in children and young adults1

  • Acquisition expands the Novartis refractive disorder pipeline in ophthalmology

  • Novartis will work with Ubisoft and McGill University to accelerate product development to enable faster uptake for patients—PoC studies planned later in 2020 

Basel, April 20, 2020 — Novartis announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Amblyotech, a US-based …

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Novartis to sponsor large clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

  • Novartis has reached an agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to proceed with a Phase III clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 disease

     

  • Trial is designed and implemented quickly to address the need for science-based investigation following early preclinical and clinical evidence1,2,3 that hydroxychloroquine may help hospitalized patients with COVID-19 disease 
     
  • Company will also make its hydroxychloroquine intellectual property available to support broad access if …
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Novartis to sponsor large clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized COVID-19 patients

  • Novartis has reached an agreement with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to proceed with a Phase III clinical trial of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 disease

     

  • Trial is designed and implemented quickly to address the need for science-based investigation following early preclinical and clinical evidence1,2,3 that hydroxychloroquine may help hospitalized patients with COVID-19 disease 
     
  • Company will also make its hydroxychloroquine intellectual property available to support broad access if …
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