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This is an April 30, 2020, file photo showing Gilead Sciences headquarters in Foster City, Calif.
Price Tag for COVID-19 Drug Draws Criticism
Gilead Sciences plans to charge more than $2,300 for a typical treatment course.
Jun 29th, 2020
Packages of Dexamethasone are displayed in a pharmacy, Tuesday, June 16, 2020, in Omaha, Neb. Researchers in England said Tuesday they have the first evidence that the drug can improve COVID-19 survival. The cheap, widely available steroid called dexamethasone reduced deaths by up to one third in severely ill hospitalized patients.
Cheap Drug First to Improve COVID-19 Survival
It's a cheap, widely available steroid.
Jun 17th, 2020
In this March 2020 photo provided by Gilead Sciences, a vial of the investigational drug remdesivir is visually inspected at a Gilead manufacturing site in the United States. On Wednesday, April 29, 2020, the company says its experimental antiviral drug has proved effective against the new coronavirus in a major U.S. government study that put it to a strict test.
Drug Proves Effective Against Coronavirus
Having a treatment could have a profound effect on the global pandemic.
Apr 29th, 2020
In this April 28, 2015 file photo, a patient has her blood drawn for a liquid biopsy at a hospital in Philadelphia. According to results released on Tuesday, April 28, 2020, for the first time, a blood test has been shown to help detect many types of cancer in a study of thousands of women with no symptoms of the disease. The test is still experimental and even its fans say it needs to be improved.
Blood Test Detects Cancer Before Symptoms
They call it a liquid biopsy.
Apr 29th, 2020