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AVIGAN

Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 20, 2020
Drug Avigan that was pushed by Abe falls short in COVID-19 trials
The lack of results have raised doubts about its approval by the end of this month, as sought by the government.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Science & Health
May 13, 2020
A tale of two Japanese drugs in tests to fight COVID-19
Avigan and camostat are undergoing trials as they may be effective in treating illnesses brought on by coronavirus.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Apr 23, 2020
Abe touts Avigan as COVID-19 treatment despite experts urging caution
Medical experts warn the drug, also known as favipiravir, may cause birth defects and it cannot be administered to expecting mothers or those who may become pregnant.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 15, 2020
Fujifilm to boost capacity to make COVID-19 treatment Avigan
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. said Wednesday it has expanded manufacturing capacity to "significantly increase" production of its anti-flu drug Avigan that is being tested as a treatment for COVID-19.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Apr 14, 2020
Coronavirus drug hopefuls are cheap to make but may quickly be in short supply
Drugs being repurposed in hopes they will help against COVID-19 cost relatively little to make but may prove challenging to produce in quantities needed for a pandemic, a drug pricing expert has said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 7, 2020
Japan to offer anti-flu Avigan drug to 20 virus-hit nations for free
Japan plans to provide the anti-flu drug Avigan for free to 20 countries hoping to use it to treat coronavirus patients, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi said Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 5, 2020
Japan to boost Avigan drug stockpile as part of coronavirus stimulus
Japan is considering increasing the stockpile of Fujifilm Holding Corp.'s Avigan anti-flu drug during this fiscal year so it can be used to treat 2 million people.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 22, 2020
Japan might approve anti-flu drug Avigan to treat coronavirus patients
Japan is considering using Avigan, an influenza medication developed by a unit of Fujifilm Holdings Corp., to treat patients of the novel coronavirus, health minister Katsunobu Kato says.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jul 7, 2016
Flu drug Avigan tested against fatal tick-borne disease
Japanese researchers have recently begun a clinical study of the flu drug Avigan to see if it can cure a tick-transmitted infectious disease that has a relatively high fatality rate and no effective treatment.
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 5, 2015
France says results of trials in Guinea of anti-Ebola drug encouraging
France said on Wednesday the first trials of a drug to treat Ebola in Guinea had been encouraging and appeared to accelerate the recovery process of patients, President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 7, 2015
Trials of untested Ebola drugs begin in West Africa
Medical charities say they have started trials of untested drug treatments on Ebola patients in Liberia and Guinea for the first time in an effort to control an epidemic that has killed more than 8,000 people in the region.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 22, 2014
Flu drug aimed at Ebola may also fight norovirus, study finds
An experimental Japanese flu drug that has garnered headlines because of its potential to fight Ebola may also work against norovirus, the winter vomiting bug, British researchers said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2014
No biohazard facilities in Japan can handle Ebola
Despite government assurances that Japan can handle an Ebola outbreak, there are no biosafety facilities rated to handle the deadly virus and 400 SDF troops are stationed near Congo.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2014
France, Guinea eye clinical tests of Japanese drug to treat Ebola
Fujifilm Corp. said Monday the French and Guinean governments are considering initiating clinical trials using the anti-influenza drug Favipiravir developed by its group firm Toyama Chemical Co. to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 6, 2014
Fujifilm share jumps as Ebola patient given drug leaves hospital
Fujifilm Holdings Corp. shares rose to their highest level in more than six years in Tokyo trading Monday after a French Ebola patient, who was given its Avigan drug with another experimental treatment, was sent home from the hospital.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2014
Japan to help fight Ebola outbreak if requested
If requested, the government will provide to the World Health Organization and other parties an unapproved medicine that might help combat the deadly Ebola virus, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga says.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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