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Chinese firm’s COVID-19 drug claims draw scientists’ skepticism
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By Gabriel Stargardter
(Reuters) – Chinese biotech firm Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited [9939.HK] saw its stock price jump by more than 20% the day after it announced on April 25 that it had “completed the first patient enrollment and dosing” in a late-stage U.S. clinical trial of its experimental COVID-19 treatment.
It was the company’s latest announcement about the progress of the drug, Proxalutamide. The Hong Kong-listed company’s stock price has nearly quadrupled since March 1 as some analysts wrote about the big sales potential for a COVID-19 treatment. Kintor has seen its market capitalization soar to HK$23.4 billion ($3 billion) from HK$6.6 billion ($850 million) on March 1. ....

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Scientists skeptical over Chinese firm's Covid-19 drug claims, firm's stocks surge


Scientists skeptical over Chinese firm s Covid-19 drug claims, firm s stocks surge
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Chinese biotech firm Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited saw its stock price jump by more than 20% the day after it announced on April 25 that it had completed the first patient enrollment and dosing in a late-stage U.S. clinical trial of its experimental COVID-19 treatment.
It was the company s latest announcement about the progress of the drug, Proxalutamide. The Hong Kong-listed company s stock price has nearly quadrupled since March 1 as some analysts wrote about the big sales potential for a COVID-19 treatment. Kintor has seen its market capitalization soar to HK$23.4 billion ($3 billion) from HK$6.6 billion ($850 million) on March 1. ....

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Chinese firm's COVID-19 drug claims draw scientists' ...


By Gabriel Stargardter
May 14 (Reuters) - Chinese biotech firm Kintor Pharmaceutical Limited saw its stock price jump by more than 20% the day after it announced on April 25 that it had completed the first patient enrollment and dosing in a late-stage U.S. clinical trial of its experimental COVID-19 treatment.
It was the company s latest announcement about the progress of the drug, Proxalutamide. The Hong Kong-listed company s stock price has nearly quadrupled since March 1 as some analysts wrote about the big sales potential for a COVID-19 treatment. Kintor has seen its market capitalization soar to HK$23.4 billion ($3 billion) from HK$6.6 billion ($850 million) on March 1. ....

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INSIGHT-The man behind Brazil's search for miracle COVID-19 cures


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RIO DE JANEIRO, May 14 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, addressing the nation last month in a social media video, touted the latest in a string of unconventional drugs he says can ease the country’s COVID-19 crisis.
Bolsonaro - a vaccine skeptic and promoter of discredited treatments such as hydroxychloroquine - said this new drug, Proxalutamide, would “soon be available to all Brazil.” He invited a little-known Health Ministry official, Helio Angotti, to expand on its promise.
Angotti, an eye doctor with no epidemiological experience, cited a domestic Proxalutamide study showing a 92% decrease in mortality risk among hospitalized COVID-19 patients. It was a dramatic claim amid a global struggle to find effective treatments. He said he aimed to “get it to the Brazilian population as soon as possible.” ....

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