Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 25, 2023

A new vaccine developed by the Serum Institute of India to fight meningococcal disease could help eliminate meningitis across Africa. The results from a trial, published in The New England Journal of Medicine , found the vaccine was associated with a strong immune response and good safety profile. percentage points (96% CI, −0.3

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

JANUARY 21, 2024

With a fatality rate 20 times that of COVID-19, and no vaccine, Disease X could swiftly bring humanity to its knees. Few would be left untouched by the pathogen were it to gain hold, causing healthcare systems to crumble and economies to collapse as the world once again tried to contain a force of nature. […]

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BioPharma Reporter

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Up to 10% of vaccines can be reportedly lost in transit due to breakage or fluctuations in sub-zero temperatures required for preservation, but a manufacturer of data-driven temperature-controlled smart containers says it can cut that rate to just 0.1%.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 25, 2023

Clover Biopharmaceuticals has established a commercial collaboration with Keyuan Xinhai (Beijing) Medical Products Trading (Kyuan Trade) for the launch of its quadrivalent seasonal influenza vaccine, AdimFlu-S (QIS), in China. The vaccine contains haemagglutinin from four influenza virus strains, two A and two B.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MARCH 31, 2023

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended HIPRA’s Covid-19 vaccine , Bimervax, as a Covid-19 booster. Available to people ages 16 years and above who have been vaccinated with a Covid-19 mRNA vaccine, EMA’s Human Medicines Committee concluded the vaccine is ready for marketing authorization in the EU, on 30 March.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 6, 2022

from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) unit National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) to develop a prophylactic intranasal vaccine against Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG). Leveraging its outer membrane vesicles (OMV) platform technology, Intravacc will develop the vaccine.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

JUNE 8, 2023

The European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorisation for GSK’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, Arexvy, for adults aged 60 years and above. The vaccine is indicated for active immunisation to prevent RSV-related lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) in older adults.

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AuroBlog - Aurous Healthcare Clinical Trials blog

MAY 2, 2023

Experts have advocated for immunizing both young boys and girls against human papillomavirus (HPV) with latest generation vaccines like Gardasil-9 to address the increasing incidences of cancer cases in India. Gardasil-9 is India’s first gender-neutral HPV vaccine.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In the last three years alone, there have been over 633,000 patents filed and granted in the pharmaceutical industry, according to GlobalData’s report on Innovation in Pharmaceuticals: Coronavirus vaccine components. The vaccine also contains other inactive ingredients such as cholesterol.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 28, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Pfizer’s 20-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, PREVNAR 20 , to prevent invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) in infants and children aged six weeks to 17 years. PREVNAR 20 has been developed on the basis of Pfizer’s approved PREVNAR 13 vaccine.

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Scienmag

MARCH 18, 2021

Vaccination alone is unlikely to contain COVID-19 infections in the UK but gradual reopening and high vaccine uptake could minimize future waves of infection COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out in the UK are effective in preventing severe disease, but the extent to which they prevent against infection is still unclear.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Moderna has entered an agreement with Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, with regard to the delivery of Covid-19 vaccines to lower-income countries supported by the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (AMC). According to the deal, the parties will cancel pending orders under the existing Covid-19 vaccine supply agreement for this year.

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World of DTC Marketing

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

SUMMARY: Business by press release has made pharma executives a lot of money but we still haven’t seen any over reviewed data on COVID 19 vaccines. The American Nurses Association, a national professional organization, said one-third of its members do not intend to take the vaccine, and an additional third are undecided.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

BioNTech announced its new vaccine manufacturing approach in Africa where the company will ship modular factories, called the BioNTainer, to the continent to enable domestic production of the vaccines to help increase supplies. Related: BioNTech to Build First mRNA Vaccine Production Plant in Africa. Photo source: BioNTech.

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NPR Health - Shots

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Since the outbreak began in September, eight children have died — and there is no approved vaccine. But doctors are hopeful that public health measures may be enough to stop the spread. Image credit: Hajarah Nalwadda/AP)

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STAT News

APRIL 24, 2023

Marburg could soon become the second virus in the past year to have experimental vaccine candidates ready for testing under an emergency use listing. Until this point, no licensed vaccines or treatments are available for Marburg. With the whole region on high alert, a safe and effective vaccine really couldn’t come soon enough.

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Pfizer

JULY 13, 2022

Hospira Issues A Voluntary Nationwide Recall For One Lot of Propofol Injectable Emulsion, USP (containing benzyl alcohol), Due To The Potential Presence of Visible Particulate. It is a sterile, nonpyrogenic emulsion containing 10 mg/mL of propofol suitable for intravenous administration supplied in a single patient use fliptop vial.

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Pfizer

AUGUST 22, 2022

Hospira Issues A Voluntary Nationwide Recall For One Lot of Propofol Injectable Emulsion (containing benzyl alcohol), Due To The Potential Presence of Visible Particulates. It is a sterile, nonpyrogenic emulsion containing 10 mg/mL of propofol suitable for intravenous administration supplied in a Single Patient Use Glass Fliptop Vial.

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pharmaphorum

JUNE 9, 2022

Moderna’s new version of its COVID-19 vaccine, which targets two virus variants including Omicron, has outperformed the company’s original Spikevax shot in a head-to-head clinical trial. It has predicted sales of COVID-19 vaccines will be around $21 billion this year. Three-month data will be reported later this summer.

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pharmaphorum

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Hungary is to order a consignment of Russia’s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, as the country struggles to contain the infection rate. According to press reports , the decision puts Hungary on “collision course” with the EU, which has not approved the vaccine or plans to review it either. The country has had more than 1.8

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pharmaphorum

MARCH 2, 2021

Zebra Technologies healthcare lead Chris Sullivan discusses the COVID-19 vaccine rollout and how technology can streamline the process to combat new variants. . While the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine has signified the first signs of light at the end of the tunnel, the reality is that this public health crisis is still far from over.

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Medical Xpress

APRIL 13, 2023

Since September, 2022, bivalent mRNA vaccines—which contain elements from both the original wild type COVID strain and an updated component from the omicron strain—have replaced older style monovalent boosters in the U.S., Israel, and other countries.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 12, 2023

BioNTech has ended its research collaboration with Matinas after its oral mRNA vaccine failed to demonstrate preclinical activity. The in vivo study, conducted in mice, involved a phosphatidylserine-containing nano-formulation of mRNA supplied by BioNTech, distinct from traditional lipid nanocrystals (LNCs).

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

AstraZeneca has resumed UK trials for its coronavirus vaccine, after the country’s medicines regulator gave the all-clear following a safety scare. Good news for everyone the Oxford vaccine trials are back up and running. We will back our scientists to deliver an effective vaccine as soon as safely possible [link].

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 2, 2020

European regulators have started a first ‘rolling review’ of a COVID-19 vaccine, which is being developed by AstraZeneca in collaboration with the University of Oxford. But this does not mean that the CHMP is ready to make a conclusion on the safety and efficacy of the vaccine.

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Scienmag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Credit: Tumisu from Pixabay New research suggests that the impact of natural and vaccine-induced immunity will be key factors in shaping the future trajectory of the global coronavirus pandemic, known as COVID-19.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 16, 2020

The European Commission has placed its first advance order for a coronavirus vaccine, snapping up 300 million doses of AstraZeneca’s ChAdOx1 candidate developed by the University of Oxford, with an option on another 100 million. The EU says its advance purchase order will finance part of the upfront costs of developing the vaccine.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Tuesday has been dubbed “V-day” in the UK, when the first doses of Pfizer/BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine will be distributed to the public outside of a clinical trial. Health secretary Matt Hancock reportedly came up with the wartime analogy to describe what will be the largest scale vaccination programme in the country’s history.

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BioSpace

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It’s not the COVID-19 vaccine that will get you. The real cause for concern is the virus, and it lies in the fact that both male and female reproductive organs contain cell receptors the virus targets.

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XTalks

MAY 7, 2021

As Novavax awaits emergency use authorization (EUA) from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its protein-based COVID-19 vaccine NVX-CoV2373, the company shared new data this week on the vaccine’s efficacy against the South African B.1.351 That analysis also showed that the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine was 96.4

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XTalks

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Adding to recent announcements from Pfizer and Moderna on the efficacy of their COVID-19 vaccine candidates, AstraZeneca and Oxford revealed today that their vaccine contender is 70 percent effective, and could be as high as 90 percent. Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine Induces Immune Responses in Early Clinical Trials.

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XTalks

DECEMBER 7, 2021

VBI Vaccines got its first vaccine approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its hepatitis B shot PreHevbrio. And in another first, VBI’s shot is the only approved three-antigen HBV vaccine for adults in the US. PreHevbrio contains the S, pre-S2 and pre-S1 HBV surface antigens.

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XTalks

APRIL 26, 2021

After years of disappointing malaria vaccine trials, a malaria shot developed by researchers at the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford has demonstrated an unprecedentedly high efficacy of 77 percent, and may be the magic bullet the world has been waiting for against the deadly disease.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 27, 2021

A plant in Wales manufacturing the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine was evacuated on the advice of the authorities today after it was sent a suspicious package. The contract covers production of 100 million doses of the AZ vaccine. Wockhardt UK in Wrexham this morning received a suspicious package.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the development of mRNA-based vaccines, and its influence has now extended to DNA-based shots as well, with Zydus Cadila’s ZyCoV-D getting emergency use authorisation in India. Proponents of the approach claim that DNA vaccines may have advantages over other technologies like mRNA.

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Fierce Pharma

AUGUST 19, 2024

With its rapid development of the Jynneos vaccine, Bavarian | After the WHO declared mpox a global health emergency for the second time in 25 months, Bavarian Nordic said it could ramp up manufacturing to supply 12 million doses of its Jynneos vaccine through 2025 to contain the virus in Africa.

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Pharma Times

JUNE 24, 2022

COVID-19 Beta-containing vaccine provides 75.1% efficacy in participants previously infected with coronavirus

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