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NICE backs Aimmune’s peanut allergy drug Palforzia for children

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Children in England with peanut allergies could be among the first in Europe to get access to Aimmune’s oral immunotherapy Palforzia, after the drugmaker agreed a supply deal with NHS England. billion last year, is also developing immunotherapies for other indications including egg and multi-tree nut allergies.

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Pfizer signs deal with Gilead to manufacture COVID-19 antiviral remdesivir

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Earlier this week the US-government backed National Institutes of Health begun a trial testing remdesivir in combination with interferon beta-1a – Merck KGaA’s Rebif – against COVID-19. This is the third iteration of the ACTT trial. Interferon beta has both antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties.

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Zydus starts Phase II COVID-19 vaccine trial; Taysha raises $95M; FDA declines DBV’s peanut allergy patch; Combating COVID-19 with decoy target

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Zydus starts phase 2 COVID-19 vaccine trial after clearing safety test. Zydus Cadila has finished a phase 1 clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine ZyCoV-D, setting it up to move straight into a 1,000-subject phase 2 study. ZyCoV-D is designed to introduce DNA that encodes for a viral protein into human cells.

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Symvivo’s Oral COVID-19 Vaccine Enters Clinical Trials

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Canadian clinical-stage biotech company Symvivo Corporation has developed an oral COVID-19 vaccine that entered clinical trials this week. The first healthy volunteer was dosed with the vaccine in Australia as part of the bacTRL-Spike COVID-19 Phase I clinical trial. Related: Red Meat Allergy Test Gets FDA Clearance. “We

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Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design

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Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design. Pfizer and BioNTech Advance COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy With Study Start of Next-Generation Vaccine Candidate Based on Enhanced Spike Protein Design. deliesschef. Tue, 07/26/2022 - 17:41.

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AZ expands phase 3 trials of COVID-19 vaccine frontrunner into US

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AstraZeneca has expanded development of COVID-19 vaccine AZD1222 into the US, beginning a phase 3 clinical trial across all adult age groups. The UK pharma said that the trial will recruit up to 30,000 adults aged 18 years or over to assess the safety, efficacy and immune response.

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Comparative adjuvant trial evaluates Army-developed ALF in HIV vaccine regimens

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The first vaccine has been administered in a comparative adjuvant trial of DNA prime/protein boost HIV vaccine regimens in Kericho, Kenya Credit: U.S. Military HIV Research Program SILVER SPRING, Md.