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HealthITSecurity | January 20, 2020

Proofpoint is urging all organizations to take steps to shore up any vulnerabilities, after detecting a massive Emotet campaign targeting the pharmaceutical industry. The hacking group behind Emotet is known as TA542. Emotet is a modular botnet able to download and install a wide range of malware. It's also known to steal data and send malicious emails from victims. Proofpoint notes that it can easily spread across networks, leveraging infected devices to launch additional attacks. The notor...

PharmaTimes | February 05, 2020

With the death toll in China topping 425, the coronavirus, now officially classified as a global health threat by the World Health Organisation (WHO), is showing no signs of slowing down. More than 20,000 cases have been confirmed around the world, with more than 20 nations reporting cases – some involving locals who had not even travelled to China. The pharma industry has been rallying together in a joint effort to develop a vaccine for the virus, which is also known as 2019-nCoV or Wuhan...

Merck | July 17, 2020

Merck, known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for priority review the New Drug Application (NDA) for vericiguat, an orally administered soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC) stimulator, to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death and heart failure hospitalization following a worsening heart failure event in patients with symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), in combination with ...

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CMIC | June 25, 2021

CMIC Co., Ltd., a leading Japanese Contract Research Organization (CRO), and Lokavant, a leading clinical trial intelligence company, announced today that they have agreed to use Lokavant's predictive analytics capabilities to assist CMIC's clinical operations. This strategic collaboration, Lokavant Oversight, monitoring, and operational risk management platform, will be implemented throughout CMIC studies. CMIC was the first firm in Japan to provide CRO services, and the ...