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Gates Foundation to fund trial of long-awaited new tuberculosis vaccine candidate

STAT

The Gates Foundation unveiled plans Wednesday to fund a long-awaited trial for what, if proven effective, would be the first new tuberculosis vaccine in over a century. The 26,000-person, Phase 3 study, set to begin next year, will test a vaccine known as M72/AS01 that showed promising results from a smaller trial in 2019.

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Routine vaccinations drop among U.S. kindergartners for the third year in a row

STAT

kindergartners who’ve received standard childhood vaccines took a small but notable dip into the 2021-2022 school year, health officials said Thursday, amid disruptions related to Covid-19 and fears that anti-vaccine sentiment stirred up by the pandemic could be spreading to other shots. The percentage of U.S.

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SAEM Clinical Images Series: Post-Vaccination Rash

ALiEM - Pharm Pearls

A 42-year old Bengali man with a history of hyperlipidemia presented to the Emergency Department with facial swelling, diffuse rash, renal insufficiency and proteinuria after receiving his COVID-19 vaccine (Moderna) booster dose. Erythema multiforme has been reported as a cutaneous reaction after the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine.

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Accelerating AMR vaccine development

European Pharmaceutical Review

In July 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its inaugural report on the pipeline of vaccines currently in development to prevent infections caused by antimicrobial resistance (AMR) bacterial pathogens. WHO referred to 61 bacterial vaccine candidates in diverse stages of clinical development. 1 WHO’s analysis was stark.

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Key vaccine adjuvant biosynthesised

European Pharmaceutical Review

A paper, published in Nature Chemical Biology has reported the first ‘free-from ‘tree’ production of a key vaccine ingredient sourced from the soapbark tree. Bioengineering vaccine adjuvants The paper explained: “QS-21 is a potent vaccine adjuvant currently sourced by extraction from the Chilean soapbark tree.

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MHRA authorises new COVID-19 vaccine

European Pharmaceutical Review

A new COVID-19 vaccine has been authorised by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Bimervax is now the ninth vaccine to be authorised by the UK’s independent medicines regulator to treat the virus. The vaccine demonstrated a strong immune response in the trial.

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WHO trivalent recommendations will reshape global flu vaccine market: GlobalData

Express Pharma

With influenza season well underway, vaccination campaigns are in full force in the northern hemisphere. This will reshape the global influenza vaccine market for the upcoming seasons, says GlobalData. Kurdach continues, “When the actual composition of vaccines will revert to trivalent formulations remains another question.