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Pfizer's Covid Vaccine and Allergies: How Concerned Should You Be?

NY Times

British health officials recommended that people with severe allergy reactions not be given the vaccine. Such reactions to vaccines are rare, even in people who have allergies to food or bee stings.

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Coronavirus vaccine may have allergy warning in US, says expert

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The US government’s coronavirus vaccine chief has said that Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine could carry a warning that it should be avoided by people who are prone to serious allergic reactions. Both recovered after appropriate treatment. Both are recovering well.”.

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Boston Doctor Develops Severe Allergic Reaction After Getting Moderna Vaccine

NY Times

The patient, who has a severe shellfish allergy, recovered quickly with treatment. Until now, reports of severe reactions had been linked to the Pfizer vaccine.

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2022 in review: Drug development milestones for tropical diseases

Pharmaceutical Technology

Novel therapeutics and vaccines for malaria. In September, researchers from Oxford University shared their findings from a Phase IIb study with a more efficacious malaria vaccine called R21, which met the WHO’s 75% efficacy threshold. Both vaccines are based on recombinant proteins and attack the parasite during the sporozoite stage.

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No drugs for prions: could new approaches alleviate therapeutic scarcity?

Pharmaceutical Technology

No progress in drug discovery. “We On the other hand, I think the progress in drug discovery is nil,” comments Requena on the prion disease landscape. According to GlobalData’s Pharma Intelligence Center, there are only six drugs in active development for CJD, of which only one has been in clinical trials.

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What People With Allergies Should Know About Covid Vaccines

NY Times

Four people so far have had allergic reactions after getting the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. Experts say that shouldn’t deter most people from getting a jab.

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Moderna is corporate greed at its worst

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government has provided Moderna with nearly $10 billion in taxpayer money for research and development and the purchase of 500 million doses of this mRNA COVID-19 vaccine. government made available to them to make this COVID-19 vaccine. billion for the development of its vaccine and to pay for doses once approved.