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Given after surgery, AZ’s Tagrisso prevents lung cancer comi...

AstraZeneca opened its account at this year’ virtual ASCO meeting with data showing that adjuvant (post-surgery) use of Tagrisso delays the recurrence of EGFR-positive non-smal

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Oxford Uni coronavirus vaccine ‘has 50% chance of success’

A scientist leading the development of Oxford University’s coronavirus vaccine says the just-started phase 2/3 trial only has a 50:50 chance of success, because the virus is di

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AZ scales up COVID-19 vaccine effort after $1bn US investmen...

AstraZeneca has said that it will be able to produce a billion doses of its potential COVID-19 vaccine by 2021 after receiving more than $1 billion from the US government to support develop

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AZ/Merck & Co take on Clovis as FDA approves prostate cancer...

The FDA has approved AstraZeneca and Merck & Co’s Lynparza (olaparib) in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, just days after the regulator gave the nod for Clovis’ PARP-cla

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Canada joins COVID-19 vaccine race after okaying trials of f...

The race is on to find a vaccine for COVID-19 and Canada’s government may have taken the lead after its national drug regulator cleared a plan to begin studying the front-running candidate.

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