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West Chester - Circa November 2020: AstraZeneca plant. AstraZeneca has been working on a vaccine for the Coronavirus, COVID and COVID-19.

EU regulators 'worried' member states undermined AZ vaccine

European regulators are "worried" that national regulators may have undermined trust in the Oxford University/AstraZeneca vaccine by temporarily suspending its use, despite central guidance

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Resourceful or risky-The UKs controversial COVID-19 vaccine strategy

States halting AZ jab a ‘disaster’ for EU’s COVID vaccinatio...

The decision by around a dozen EU countries to suspend dosing with AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine is facing criticism, amid fears that it could undermine the response to the pandemic in Eur

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Ireland, Netherlands suspend AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccinatio...

Ireland and the Netherlands have joined Norway, Denmark, Bulgaria and Iceland in suspending vaccinations with Oxford/AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine, shortly after the World Health Organizat

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EU probes low platelet safety signal with COVID-19 shots

EU regulators are reviewing reports of low blood platelets in patients who received any of the three approved COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Moderna.

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EU regulators probe safety of AstraZeneca vaccine batch afte...

European safety regulators have launched an investigation into the safety of a batch of the Oxford University/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, as countries including Denmark suspended its use

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bluebird seeks gene therapy trial restart after cancer scare

bluebird bio is to ask regulators to restart clinical studies of its LentiGlobin for sickle cell disease, after an investigation concluded that a case of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) was "