Category: Vaccines

March 29, 2023

New advice from the World Health Organization (WHO) says healthy children and teens may not need additional COVID-19 shots, though they may need to catch up on other routine vaccines. “The public health impact of vaccinating healthy children and adolescents […]

March 27, 2023

4Q Revenues: €4.3 billion (-23%) 4Q Earnings: €2.3 billion (-28%) YTD Revenues: €17.3 billion (-9%) YTD Earnings: €9.3 billion (-8%) Comments: Results in the quarter and FY reflect lower demand for COVID-19 vaccines. Approximately 2 billion doses of COMIRNATY invoiced […]

March 15, 2023

With this latest approval, children aged six months to four years who have completed their primary series with three doses of the companies’ original vaccine will be able to receive a 3µg booster dose of the bivalent vaccine after at […]

March 9, 2023

The partnership will see both companies advance MDX-2201 to an Investigational New Drug application filing, after which Merck will be responsible for clinical and regulatory activities, as well as product commercialisation. In exchange, Opko will receive an upfront payment of […]

March 7, 2023

Despite having a long history in the US, the vaccines have previously only been administered via subcutaneous injection, which is given into the fatty tissue just under the skin. Now, healthcare professionals will have the option to choose to administer […]

March 2, 2023

Allergic reactions to the Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines are very rare, and a new study questions whether many of those that do occur are even real. In a small new study of 16 people who said they’d experienced an […]

March 1, 2023

National vaccine regulatory agencies and pharmaceutical companies will now use this guidance to develop, produce and license influenza vaccines for the following season. WHO organises consultations with an advisory group of experts twice a year to analyse influenza virus surveillance […]

February 28, 2023

Moderna and Merck announced on Feb. 22, 2023 that their investigational personalized messenger RNA (mRNA) cancer vaccine, mRNA-4157/V940, in combination with KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, has been granted Breakthrough Therapy Designation by FDA for the adjuvant treatment of patients with […]

February 24, 2023

The vaccine, mRNA-4157/V940, is designed to stimulate an immune response by generating specific T-cell responses based on the unique mutational signature of a patient’s tumour, while Keytruda increases the ability of the body’s immune system to help detect and fight […]

February 17, 2023

Bavarian Nordic announced has entered into an agreement with Emergent BioSolutions, to acquire two marketed travel vaccines, Vivotif for the prevention of typhoid fever and Vaxchora against cholera as well as a Phase 3 vaccine candidate for the prevention of […]

February 16, 2023

American adults who have no health insurance or those who are underinsured will still be able to get free COVID vaccines from Moderna, even after government-purchased supplies run out, the company announced Monday. “Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines will continue to be […]

February 16, 2023

Older people have vaccines available to prevent severe influenza and COVID-19, but there’s been nothing to protect against the third respiratory virus that contributed to this season’s wretched “triple-demic.” Until now. Two major pharmaceutical companies published clinical trial results this […]

February 13, 2023

RMI – a company which focuses on providing medical support to remote regions across the world – has provided over 2,000 COVID-19 vaccines throughout Dover. It is part of its ongoing partnership with NHS South, Central and West (SWC). The […]

February 10, 2023

U.S. health officials are considering using vaccines in poultry to stem an ongoing outbreak of bird flu. Scientists will begin testing the first vaccines for birds in years as the spread of avian influenza has killed about 58 million birds, […]

February 10, 2023

Time is running out for free-to-consumer covid vaccines, at-home test kits, and even some treatments. The White House announced this month that the national public health emergency, first declared in early 2020 in response to the pandemic, is set to […]

February 9, 2023

For the first time, COVID-19 vaccines have been added to the list of routine immunizations recommended for adults — a further sign the virus is here to stay. The addition is being made to the 2023 Recommended Adult Immunization Schedule, […]

February 7, 2023

A new study shows the importance of the messenger when trying to encourage people to get their COVID-19 vaccines. People who know someone who was sickened by the virus or who died from it were twice as likely to get […]

February 6, 2023

After more than five decades of trying, the drug industry is on the verge of providing effective immunizations against the respiratory syncytial virus, which has put an estimated 90,000 U.S. infants and small children in the hospital since the start […]

February 3, 2023

A new way to significantly increase the potency of almost any vaccine has been developed by researchers from the International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) at Northwestern University. The scientists used chemistry and nanotechnology to change the structural location of adjuvants […]

January 30, 2023

A more harmonized formula and schedule for administering COVID-19 vaccines gained strong support from FDA’s expert advisory panel last week, with agreement on the need to reduce confusion over which shot to take and when in order to increase vaccination […]