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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday gave state-licensed pharmacists the green light to prescribe Pfizer’s COVID-19 pill — also known as Paxlovid — to eligible patients. In Canada, only some provinces allow this…

Patients who experience recurrence of COVID-19 symptoms after completing treatment with Pfizer’s drug Paxlovid should isolate again for five days, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an advisory issued on…

The COVID-19 medication Paxlovid was approved by Health Canada in January but odds are you wouldn’t be able to walk out of a New Brunswick pharmacy with it today. The Pfizer-made antiviral pill is designed to reduce the risk of…

Shionogi & Co. slumped the most in more than a decade after the drugmaker said animal studies showed its experimental Covid drug disturbed fetal development. The stock fell as much as 16% in Tokyo trading Wednesday, the biggest…

Pfizer Inc. forecast $54 billion in full-year sales of its COVID-19 vaccine and antiviral pill on Tuesday that fell short of lofty Wall Street estimates, sending its shares down four per cent. Although Pfizer raised its forecast for…

The EU’s drug watchdog approved Pfizer’s coronavirus pill on Thursday, making it the first oral antiviral treatment for the disease to be authorised in Europe. Studies showed the drug called Paxlovid reduces hospitalisation and death in…

With a limited supply of Pfizer’s new COVID-19 treatment, Paxlovid, bound for Canada, the country’s top doctors have identified groups that should be first in line to get the pills — including unvaccinated older Canadians.…

Canada has approved the first oral COVID-19 treatment that can be taken at home: an antiviral drug from Pfizer called Paxlovid. The approval comes as Canada grapples with an Omicron-fueled surge of COVID-19 cases, with over…

Health Canada should be ready to make an authorization decision about Pfizer’s Paxlovid antiviral treatment for COVID-19 in a week to 10 days, chief medical adviser Dr. Supriya Sharma said Thursday. But it’s still unclear when…

The decision to grant an emergency use authorisation came a day after the agency gave a green light to a similar but more effective pill developed by Pfizer.…