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Clinical trial will test novel inhaled TB vaccine

Drug Discovery World

A new study will compare whether giving tuberculosis vaccine by inhalation is better at protecting against tuberculosis (TB) than injection into the skin. The Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford is conducting the study using Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG), the current licensed vaccine against TB.

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US FDA grants approval for Merck’s pneumococcal vaccine for children

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for Merck's (MSD outside the US and Canada) pneumococcal 15-valent conjugate vaccine, Vaxneuvance, for use in children aged six weeks to 17 years. The post US FDA grants approval for Merck’s pneumococcal vaccine for children appeared first on Pharmaceutical Technology.

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Health Canada grants expanded authorisation for Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine

Pharmaceutical Technology

Health Canada has granted expanded authorisation for Novavax ’s Covid-19 vaccine (Recombinant protein, Adjuvanted) [Nuvaxovid; NVX-CoV2373] as a homologous booster for usage in adults aged 18 and above. The vaccine is indicated for active immunisation to prevent the disease.

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“Game-changing” personalised cancer vaccine enters UK clinical trials   

Drug Discovery World

A clinical trial of a personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for melanoma patients has been launched in the UK. The vaccines are personalised to each patient after a tumour sample is removed during surgery and then analysed using DNA sequencing. in the combination arm and 62.2%

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Altimmune ditches nasal COVID vaccine on weak trial data

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Just a few months after starting clinical trials of its nasal spray vaccine for COVID-19, US biotech Altimmune is abandoning the project, saying that it generated weaker than expected immune responses in a phase 1 trial. .

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Phase I trial of next-generation srRNA rabies vaccine

Drug Discovery World

Replicate Bioscience has dosed the first participant in a Phase I trial of its RBI-4000 vaccine for the prevention of rabies. Rabies, RBI-4000 and the Phase I trial Rabies remains a public health threat in several geographical regions and is designated an NIAID Priority Pathogen.

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Mix-and-match trial finds additional dose of COVID-19 vaccine safe, immunogenic

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WHAT: In adults who had previously received a full regimen of any of three COVID-19 vaccines granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), an additional booster dose of any of these vaccines was safe and prompted an immune response, according to preliminary clinical trial results reported in The […]. (..)