The World Health Organization said it is targeting 22 million children in the Middle East for polio vaccination after 13 cases of polio were confirmed in Syria. In a joint resolution, all countries of the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region ...
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A claim filed by two sisters for injuries suffered from injections of the human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil will be heard in federal court in Washington. Madelyne Meylor, 20, and Olivia Meylor, 19, of Mount Horeb, Wis., allege that ...
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U.S. researchers began an early stage clinical trial of a vaccine to prevent genital herpes disease by removing two key proteins so the virus cannot multiply. Principal investigator Dr. Lesia K. Dropulic of the National Institute of ...
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One day after a journal said the polio outbreak in Syria could spread, health officials said 20 million children will be Vaccined in Syria and other nations. In a joint statement, the World Health Organization and UNICEF said Friday the ...
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It's been confirmed Syria has 10 cases of polio, and two German researchers warn the infectious disease could silently spread to Europe as refugees move about. Dr. Martin Eichner of the University of Tubinge in Germany and Dr. Stefan ...
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A flu shot can reduce the risk a person gets the flu, make the flu less severe if caught and help those who can't be vaccinated, a U.S. health official says. Anne Schuchat, assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service and ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Roche's new drug Gazyva (obinutuzumab) in combination with chlorambucil chemotherapy for treatment of patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who have not previously been ...
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Baxter has submitted a marketing authorization application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for approval of Rixubis, recombinant factor IX for the treatment and prophylaxis of bleeding in patients of all ages with hemophilia B. ...
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Sanofi's vaccines division Sanofi Pasteur and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have partnered to discover and develop new platforms and methods intended to speed up vaccine R&D, particularly in areas of global health. Under the Vaccine ...
British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has received positive opinion from the European Medicines Agency (EMA's) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for additional indication for Synflorix, a pediatric pneumococcal ...
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US-based biopharmaceutical company Immunomedics has announced the issuance of a US patent to its majority-owned subsidiary, IBC Pharmaceuticals, for ‘Novel Strategies for Improved Cancer Vaccines’. The new patent concerns ...
Pfizer has secured European Commission approval to carry out updates to the summary of product characteristics (SmPC) for its pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) Prevenar 13, regarding its use in certain high-risk populations. Now the ...
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US-based biotechnology firm GeoVax Labs has received a notice of allowance from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for patent that covers compositions, methods and uses of the company's DNA/MVA vaccine in eliciting cellular and ...
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Germany-based clinical stage biopharmaceutical firm CureVac has entered into collaboration and licensing agreement with Janssen Pharmaceuticals to develop a messenger RNA (mRNA)-based influenza vaccine. The deal will see CureVac ...
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US-based MMRGlobal (MMR) will receive two additional US patents covering methods of making compositions for its B-cell vaccine technologies. The patent entitled 'Method and Composition for Altering a B-cell Mediated Pathology', will be ...