Tag: Merck

  • Nation & World

    Pills could prove COVID game changer

    Harvard specialists say COVID-19 pills may cut hospitalizations and deaths and offer big boost to nations struggling with low vaccination rates.

    5 minutes
    Mark Namchuk.
  • Nation & World

    Collaboration to develop cancer therapeutics

    The Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator will collaborate with Merck to develop small-molecule therapy for the most common form of acute leukemia.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Fixing the way we fix the brain

    With neurodegenerative diseases affecting millions and having the potential to bankrupt the U.S. health care system, Harvard Medical School, seven pharmaceutical companies, and the Massachusetts state government have formed the Massachusetts Neuroscience Consortium. The goal: to offer new collaborative research models.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Hope for AIDS vaccine?

    Progress on several fronts has raised optimism about the possibility of achieving an effective AIDS vaccine in the coming years, a speaker at the Harvard School of Public Health said Tuesday (Nov. 9).

    4 minutes