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What DTC marketers can learn from people who refuse a COVID vaccination

World of DTC Marketing

SUMMARY: Even though the Delta variant of COVID is highly contagious, people are still choosing not to get vaccinated. Concerns about safety, fear of unknown side effects, and misinformation about COVID-19 are some reasons why people may not accept the vaccine. The media stories about the FDA.

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Malaria Vaccine a Breakthrough Success with 77 Percent Efficacy

XTalks

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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Scepticism in press over Kintor’s COVID-19 US drug trial

pharmaphorum

China’s Kintor Pharmaceutical has begun late-stage US clinical development of its potential COVID drug proxalutamide – but there is scepticism over the company’s claims about its research. Reuters also pointed to other links with one of the study authors and Brazil’s vaccine sceptic president, Jair Bolsonaro.

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Steps to building a more patient-centric industry

pharmaphorum

A recent survey of clinical trial professionals found that more than two-thirds of respondents (61%) believe giving patients choice will have a positive impact on clinical research, and well over half (58%) said that their organisations plan to give patients the option to choose how they participate in clinical trials moving forward.

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STAT+: Pfizer scraps half of participants in Lyme disease drug trial due to quality issues

STAT News

Pfizer and partner Valneva are scrapping data from roughly half of the participants in a Phase 3 trial of a Lyme disease vaccine candidate after uncovering quality issues with a third-party clinical trial operator.

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Phases of Clinical Research: A Detailed Overview

Advarra

Clinical trials are studies involving human volunteers to research ways to prevent, detect, and treat various medical conditions. The goal is to identify safer, more effective methods of treating illnesses using new drugs or new combinations of existing drugs.

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Advancement through adversity: how Covid-driven innovations are becoming best practices for pharmacovigilance

Pharmaceutical Technology

Among the many effects the Covid-19 pandemic has had on the pharmaceutical industry is a substantial increase in the number of AEs being reported from drug trials, due to the fast-tracked development, approval and marketing of vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus. It has translated more than 6.3

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