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A half-heart pendant isn’t the only meaningful jewelry Ana de Armas is wearing these days. Over the past month, the 32-year-old “Knives Out” star has been constantly photographed running errands and walking her dog with boyfriend Ben Affleck while wearing a symbolic — and quite pricey — piece of sparkle by celebrity-loved brand Foundrae. Her …
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Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy on Monday reversed his stance on renaming U.S. Army bases currently named for Confederate leaders and is now reportedly “open” to renaming them. “The Secretary of the Army is open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic,” Army spokesperson Colonel Sunset Belinsky told Politico. The reversal comes on the heels of the …
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Ana de Armas appears to be having some fun with the paparazzi who regularly swarm outside her house. The “Knives Out” star — who is dating Ben Affleck — now has a life-size cardboard cutout of herself on the lawn. And she apparently had a little help schlepping it there. Vulture reports that Affleck’s three …
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AstraZeneca has approached Gilead Sciences about a massive merger that would combine two companies leading the pharmaceutical industry’s battle against the coronavirus, a report says. The British drugmaker reached out to California-based Gilead last month about whether it would be interested in merging, Bloomberg News reported Sunday. But there are no formal talks and Gilead …
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British drugmaker AstraZeneca has doubled manufacturing capacity for its potential coronavirus vaccine to 2 billion doses in a handful of deals involving Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates that guarantee early supply to lower-income countries. The deals with epidemic response group CEPI and vaccine alliance GAVI are backed by the World Health Organization and aim to quell …
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Gilead Sciences is developing easier-to-administer versions of its antiviral treatment remdesivir for COVID-19 that could be used outside of hospitals, including ones that can be inhaled, after trials showed moderate effectiveness for the drug given by infusion. Remdesivir is the only drug so far that has been shown to help patients with COVID-19, but Gilead …
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Armie Hammer (@armiehammer) on May 30, 2020 at 5:36am PDT Armie Hammer posted a bizarre video of himself golfing while quarantining in the Grand Cayman Islands. On Saturday, the “Call Me By Your Name” actor, 33, shared a video of himself shirtless and chugging a beer, …
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Shares of Pfizer fell nearly 7 percent on Monday after an independent data monitoring committee determined the drugmaker’s breast cancer treatment was unlikely to meet the main goal of a late-stage study. The treatment, Ibrance, was being tested along with the standard of care for early breast cancer in men and women, against standard of …
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The CEO of pharmaceutical giant Merck on Monday said he watched the videotape of George Floyd being killed by a white officer with the knowledge that it “could be me.” “What the African American community sees in that videotape is that this African American man, who could be me or any other African American man, …
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Any simmering Chicago Bulls feuds have nothing on Lance Armstrong’s animosity towards former cycling teammate Floyd Landis. In ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary about his rise and fall, Armstrong says, “It could be worse. I could be Floyd Landis … waking up a piece of s–t every day.” Is that what he really thinks? “That’s …