STAT

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that it is filling eight vacancies, including the chairmanship, on an important advisory panel on vaccine policy that was down to less than half of its normal roster for months.

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STAT

JANUARY 21, 2024

LONDON — Starting Monday, a new, highly effective malaria vaccine will be rolled out for the first time, as an immunization campaign for children kicks off in Cameroon — a day that global health officials say marked a historic step in the decades-long quest to protect people from one of the world’s deadliest infections.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The new vaccines that protect older adults against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, may be linked to a small increased risk of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration suggest. Read the rest…

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STAT

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Flu vaccine appears to be offering reasonable levels of protection this winter, with particularly strong levels in children, new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest. Read the rest…

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Express Pharma

JULY 7, 2023

Researchers and clinicians from the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are part of the ongoing OCTAVE (Observational Cohort Trial-T-cells Antibodies and Vaccine Efficacy in SARS-CoV-2) trial, which is led by the Universities of Glasgow, Birmingham and Oxford and a consortium of leading UK institutions.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

An expert panel that advises the United Kingdom on vaccine policy has recommended using a meningitis B vaccine to try to bring down spiking rates of gonorrhea. would be the first country to use the meningitis B vaccine for this purpose. If adopted, the U.K.

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Express Pharma

JUNE 20, 2023

The vaccine efforts of the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted our knowledge about gaps in the immune system. Reductionist systems, such as genetically identical inbred mice, have long been the choice for immunology research, which focuses on studying the cells, tissues, and organs that make up the immune system.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Vaccines work well to prevent cancers caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). So well, in fact, that it may be time to review HPV screening protocols, according to the somewhat provocative conclusion of a new study examining the occurrence of genital HPV types eight years after immunization, published today in Cell Host & Microbe.

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STAT

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

vaccination policy appears to be atrophying, jeopardizing timely decision-making on how vaccines should be used in this country. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which has in recent years been a 15-person panel, has eight vacancies — one of which dates back more than a year.

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STAT

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

An experimental influenza vaccine developed using messenger RNA technology appears capable of inducing what should be a protective immune response against all known subtypes of flu, at least in animals. If the work is translated into humans it could turn out to be a version of a long-sought universal vaccine.

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World Pharma News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

A University of Massachusetts Amherst team has demonstrated in theory that a protein antigen from a childhood vaccine can be delivered into the cells of a malignant tumor to refocus the body’s immune system against the cancer, effectively halting it and preventing its recurrence.

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STAT

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Last month, the first volunteer was injected with an HIV vaccine he spent over 20 years designing.   Truthfully, though, Picker isn’t sure his HIV vaccine stands much of a chance.   Truthfully, though, Picker isn’t sure his HIV vaccine stands much of a chance. It’s prototype No.

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STAT

JUNE 7, 2023

LONDON — The European Commission approved GSK’s RSV vaccine, the company said Wednesday, bringing to the market the first such tool that can protect older adults from the common respiratory bug.     The vaccine, Arexvy, was authorized for adults 60 and older. Arexvy won U.S. Read the rest…

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STAT

MAY 5, 2023

A new study sheds light on what may be causing very rare cases of heart inflammation in young men after receiving an mRNA Covid vaccine. But the study , published Friday in Science Immunology, doesn’t find evidence for any of these mechanisms.

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STAT

OCTOBER 2, 2023

and Europe are ramping up their campaigns urging eligible people to get another vaccine round against Covid and flu, promoting the immunizations as people’s best way to protect themselves and reduce pressure on health systems during what is expected to be another tough winter. LONDON — Health officials in the U.K.

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STAT

JUNE 21, 2023

A panel of experts  that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccinations opted Wednesday not to recommend that all seniors get a vaccine to protect against RSV.

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STAT

MAY 18, 2023

A committee of vaccine experts voted to recommend the Food and Drug Administration approve Pfizer’s maternal RSV vaccine on Thursday, though the panel expressed some safety concerns. Read the rest…

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STAT

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a global first, some travelers and laboratory researchers who are at risk of contracting chikungunya will soon be allowed to be vaccinated against the virus. A committee of vaccine experts recommended Wednesday that those selective groups of people should be offered access to the new vaccine, Ixchiq, which is made by Valneva Austria GmbH.

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NY Times

JULY 4, 2021

France is handing out third shots of the two-dose vaccines to cancer patients and others with immune system impairments. In the United States, patients like these are on their own.

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STAT

APRIL 19, 2023

An expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccination policy informally endorsed a plan Wednesday to offer an additional Covid-19 booster shot to people 65 and older as well as people who are immunocompromised, and to simplify the Covid vaccine schedule.

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STAT

DECEMBER 12, 2022

to receive a Covid-19 vaccine outside of a clinical trial. A study released Tuesday by the Commonwealth Fund shows that in those two years, the Covid vaccines have averted over 3 million deaths in the U.S. Without vaccines, the country would have experienced four times as many deaths, 1.5 The vaccines also saved the U.S. $1

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STAT

MARCH 28, 2023

A panel of experts that advises the World Health Organization on vaccine use suggested Tuesday that countries no longer need to consider offering additional Covid-19 boosters to people at medium or low risk of becoming seriously ill if they contract the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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Pharma Times

JULY 28, 2021

AC Immune is set to acquire Affiris’ entire portfolio of therapeutics targeting alpha-synuclein

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STAT

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Immunizations shipped to doorsteps around the globe is the dream of Michael Schrader, chief executive and cofounder of Vaxess. In the future, getting a flu shot might be as easy as opening the mailbox and slapping a skin patch on your arm. For more than a decade, the Cambridge, Mass., For more than a decade, the Cambridge, Mass.,

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Pharmacy Times

AUGUST 2, 2023

A panel of experts review the criteria used to select a specific high-dose flu vaccine formulation for immunization.

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Pharmacy Times

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Fractional COVID-19 dosing resulted in fewer adverse effects and costs while producing similar immune responses compared to a full dose vaccine.

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The Pharmacist

MARCH 28, 2023

Obese individuals may be more susceptible to severe Covid-19 because of a poorer inflammatory immune response, according to research from the University of Cambridge. Cells in the lining of the lungs, nasal cells, and […] The post Low antiviral immune response to Covid found in obese patients appeared first on The Pharmacist.

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Pharmacy Times

AUGUST 9, 2023

Chad Worz, PharmD, BCGP, FASCP, discusses how vaccine hesitancy and misinformation about flu vaccines create barriers to annual flu immunizations.

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pharmaphorum

JULY 26, 2021

Antibodies should be present in people who have previously exposed to the virus, or been vaccinated against it. The post Rapid COVID immune status test launched in UK, Ireland appeared first on. Another player is FlowMetric Life Sciences, which launched its quantitative diagnostic – VaxEffect – in the US two weeks ago.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

A trial of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine has shown the jab produces an immune response, although the study was too small to produce conclusive findings, particularly on safety. The vaccine also produced a T-cell response within 28 days, a secondary outcome.

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Pharma Times

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Novo Nordisk Foundation has committed $260m to establish a new state-of-the-art research and vaccine development initiative to help combat deadly airborne infections. The initiative aims to create new or improved vaccines for deadly respiratory diseases, including tuberculosis (TB) and influenza. million deaths every year.

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STAT

JUNE 6, 2023

On the other, for those who are not vulnerable or immune compromised, most facets of life have returned to normal, thanks to high levels of immunity from vaccines, boosters, and past infections. In the U.S., One of the last vestiges of the pandemic seems to be mask mandates in hospitals, which are now being lifted in the U.S.

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World Pharma News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved ABRYSVO™ (Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine), the company's bivalent RSV prefusion F (RSVpreF) vaccine, for the prevention of LRTD and severe LRTD caused by RSV in infants from birth up to six months of age by active immunization of pregnant individuals at 32 through 36 weeks gestational age.

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Dr. Neal Smoller

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In This Episode In this episode, Dr. Neal and Mark DeCicco discuss boosting your immune system, the true and false ideas behind it, the pathways to go from suboptimal to optimal health, and how to stay there. Immune Health: [link] Real Mushrooms: [link] Woodstock Vitamins: [link] Jokes… Bad ones yes, but still, they’re jokes, folks.

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Pharma Times

JULY 7, 2023

Second dose of treatment generates response among young people during Oxford University trial - News - PharmaTimes

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STAT

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

New data from Pfizer and BioNTech on their bivalent Covid-19 vaccine suggests the updated product may be more protective against more recent Omicron subvariants than the original version of the vaccine, the companies said in a statement released Friday. The companies said the levels of neutralizing antibodies that target the BA.4

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PharmaVoice

AUGUST 30, 2023

Experts have determined the strains of this year’s flu season — now the question is whether people are too fatigued by the pandemic to be immunized.

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