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Meningitis vaccine comes to the forefront with impressive study results

Pharmaceutical Technology

The trial, conducted in 1,800 healthy individuals ranging from ages 2-29 years in Mali and The Gambia in 2021, found NmCV-5 induced a strong immune response across five strains of meningococcal bacteria. The response was more powerful than that generated by MenACWY-D – a licensed quadrivalent meningococcal vaccine marketed by GSK.

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Governments and pharma relationships and implications for antimicrobial resistance

Pharmaceutical Technology

As a result, multiple vaccines, including Pfizer /BioNTech’s mRNA vaccine, Comirnaty, were licensed for use within a year of development beginning. AMR occurs when disease-causing bacteria become resistant or immune to the antibiotics used to treat them. AMR is already the third leading cause of death worldwide, causing around 1.27

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Is the microbiome therapy hype up for a reckoning?

Pharmaceutical Technology

The idea behind these treatments relies on altering the gut microbiome by designing therapeutics that contain bacteria derived from donated stool samples. Unlike Rebyota and SER-109, Vedanta’s treatment is based on clonal bacteria strains and does not use donated stool samples. Vedanta is a subsidiary of Puretech Health.

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(BEST) over the counter ANTIBIOTIC cream

Druggist

Antiseptic creams are preparations which are applied to the skin to reduce the possibility of infections or to slow the growth of bacteria. Antiseptic creams have bacteriostatic properties (stops bacteria from multiplying) as opposed to antibiotic creams, which are bactericidal (kill the bacteria). . £21.99.

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Flucloxacillin vs Amoxicillin: 2 most POPULAR antibiotics

Druggist

Licensed use of flucloxacillin and amoxicillin. Licensed use of flucloxacillin and amoxicillin. The difference in the licensed use between flucloxacillin and amoxicillin is the main driving factor for significant variation in prescribing of both drugs. This post focuses on highlighting the main differences between drugs.

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Nirogy rises with $16.5M; Iterum presents a new drug application to FDA; Gut Bacteria proffer insight into molecules protection; TScan adds another $100M for cancer trials

Delveinsight

Gut Bacteria proffer insight into molecules protective against asthma and COVID-19. The researchers began by transplanting gut bacteria from an immune-deficient mouse model into normal mice and observing the animals’ immune systems.

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Re-engineered enzyme could help reverse damage from spinal cord injury and stroke

Scienmag

A team of researchers at University of Toronto Engineering and University of Michigan have modified an enzyme from bacteria to promote regrowth of nerve tissue Credit: Hettiaratchi, O’Meara et al.,