FDA accepted REGEN-COVﾮ (casirivimab and imdevimab) for priority review for treatment and prophylaxis of COVID-19
On Oct. 14, 2021, Regeneron announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had accepted for priority…
Tuberculosis deaths rose for the first time in more than a decade due to the COVID-19 pandemic
On Oct. 14, 2021, the World Health Organization announced that the COVID-19 pandemic had reversed years of global…
Cepheid received CE Mark for Xpert Xpress CoV-2/Flu/RSV plus
On Oct. 14, 2021, Cepheid announced it had received the CE mark for Xpert Xpress CoV-2/Flu/RSV plus, a…
Democratic Republic of the Congo started Ebola vaccination
On Oct. 13, 2021, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo announced that vaccination…
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WHO bestowed posthumous award on the late Henrietta Lacks
On Oct. 13, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) honoured the late Henrietta Lacks with a WHO Director-General’s…
CureVac shifted focus of COVID-19 vaccine development to second-generation mRNA technology
On Oct. 12, 2021, CureVac announced the strategic decision to focus its COVID-19 vaccine development towards the development…
Merck and Ridgeback announced Submission of EUA to the FDA for Molnupiravir, an Investigational Oral antiviral medicine, for treatment of COVID-19
On Oct. 11, 2021, Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics announced that Merck had submitted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA)…
WHO, UN set out steps to meet world COVID vaccination targets
On Oct. 7, 2021, the World Health Organization launched the Strategy to Achieve Global Covid-19 Vaccination by mid-2022…
U.S. CDC reported more than 140,000 U.S. children lost a primary or secondary caregiver due to COVID-19 pandemic
On Oct. 7, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported One U.S. child loses a…
Lumen Bioscience awarded Federal funding to advance Covid-19 antibody cocktail through phase 2 clinical evaluation
On Oct. 6, 2021, Lumen Bioscience announced new development funding from the US Army for its Covid-19 monoclonal…
USDA confirmed COVID-19 infection in a Binturong and a Fishing Cat at an Illinois Zoo
On Oct. 6, 2021, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture Research Service (ARS) announced confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 (the…
NIH researchers linked depression during pregnancy to placental gene modifications
On Oct. 6, 2021, a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) found that episodes…
NIH BRAIN Initiative unveiled detailed Atlas of the Mammalian Primary Motor Cortex
On Oct. 6, 2021, the The NIH Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologiesﾮ (BRAIN?) Initiative Cell Census Network…
Vaxartﾠbegan recruiting in global phase II COVID-19 oral tablet vaccine clinical trial
On Oct. 6, 2021, Vaxart announced that it had begun recruiting subjects for its Phase II COVID-19 oral…
AIM ImmunoTech published phase 1 clinical study data supporting the safety of Ampligen as intranasal therapy
On Oct. 6, 2021, AIM ImmunoTech released detailed safety data from a Phase 1 clinical study which supported…
WHO recommended groundbreaking malaria vaccine for children at risk
On Oct. 6, 2021, the World Health Organization recommended widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among…
Johnson & Johnson submitted EUA amendment to FDA to support booster of single-shot COVID-19 vaccine
On Oct. 5, 2021, Johnson & Johnson announced it had submitted data to the U.S. Food and Drug…
Vaccination linked reduction of over a quarter million COVID-19 cases, 100,000 hospitalizations, and 39,000 deaths among seniors
On Oct. 5, 2021, a new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) showed…
The 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian ‘for their discoveries of receptors for temperature and touch’
On Oct. 4, 2021, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to David Julius and Ardem…
US Department of Defense announced mandatory coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination of civilian employees
On Oct. 4, 2021, the the Secretary of Defense directed the mandatory vaccination of Service members against the…
ACON’s Flowflexﾙ COVID-19 home test received FDA EUA
On Oct. 4, 2021, ACON Laboratories announced that its Flowflexﾙ COVID-19 Antigen Home Test had been authorized for…
World’s oldest evidence for the earliest small-scale plant cultivation was discovered
World’s oldest evidence dating to 23000 BCE for the earliest small-scale plant cultivation was discovered by Dani Nadel…
Pigeons were domesticated
Archeological evidence points to human use of pigeons as a food source as early as 10,000 years ago…
Farmers in China, Egypt and Sumeria began using fermentation
Around 8000 BCE, farmers in China, Egypt and Sumeria began using fermentation to produce cheese and wine. One…
Earliest known evidence of cheese making found in Croatia, Poland and Switzerland
Earliest known evidence of cheese making was found in Croatia dated to 7200 BCE. Residues from sherds of…
Earliest physical trace of beer found at a site called Godin Tepe
The earliest physical trace of beer dates back to the late fourth millennium BC in present day Iran…
Egyptians used bleeding
A tomb illustration in Memphis, Egypt, depictded a patient being bled from the foot and neck. Though the…
Babylonian Code of Hammurabi prescribed regulations for date palm orchards
The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1754 BCE), one of the oldest legal texts in the world, prescribes…
Phoenicians disseminated the olive throughout the Greek isles
In the 16th century BCE the Phoenicians started disseminating the olive throughout the Greek isles, later introducing it…
The Torah offered instructions for isolating lepers
The Torah offered instructions for isolating lepers, the first published guidance for health confinement occurred around 400-600 BCE.