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FluMist Nasal Flu Vaccine Gets FDA Consideration for Self-Administration

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted AstraZeneca’s supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) for a self-administered option of its nasal influenza vaccine FluMist Quadrivalent. FluMist has been in the market since 2003 and is the only intranasal spray vaccine option against flu.

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Warning of counterfeit ivermectin tablets sold via social media

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In 2021, a total of 12 529 counterfeit ivermectin tablets originating from postal packages were seized. These tablets are regularly found in postal packages to this day. In 2021, a total of 12 529 counterfeit ivermectin tablets originating from postal packages were seized. Do you have doubts about a website or a medicine?

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Biden Outlines ‘Bold’ National Vaccine Effort

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16, 2021 — President-elect Joe Biden described an ambitious national vaccination plan on Friday that will deliver coronavirus vaccines to far more people and invoke a wartime law to boost vaccine production. Even if Biden invokes the Korean War-era Defense Production Act, it may take some time to ease vaccine shortages.

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Health Highlights: Dec. 30, 2020

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Becomes First Country to Approve Covid-19 Vaccine From Oxford-AstraZeneca. Britain became the first country to give authorization to the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, The New York Times reported Wednesday. © 2020 HealthDay. All rights reserved. Posted: December 2020. Source link.

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Healthcare is about profits, not patients

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“Every day, I wonder if I’m going to call into my manager’s office and offered a package because I earn so much,” she told me. Pharmacy schools are turning out thousands of pharmacists who earn a lot less than pharmacists who have to work at hospitals for years. It’s happening in pharma as well.

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Six months after authorization, what do we know about Paxlovid?

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Paxlovid consists of two different drugs, nirmatrelvir 150mg tablets co-packaged with ritonavir 100mg tablets. A major blind spot in the data is how effective Paxlovid is at treating vaccinated patients who contract COVID-19. Nirmatrelvir 300mg (two tablets) is taken with ritonavir 100mg twice a day for five days.

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FDA committee recommends AstraZeneca and Sanofi’s RSV prophylactic nirsevimab

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The drug performed “extraordinarily well” in a variety of cohorts, said Nimish Patel, PharmD, professor of clinical pharmacy at University of California San Diego. After a long period without any new approvals, in May, the FDA approved GSK’s vaccine Arexvy for the prevention of LRTD caused by RSV in individuals 60 and older.