Mike Hollan The agency updated its recommendations after a vote by the ACIP advisory committee. The Covid-19 shot isn’t done yet. The CDC is recommending that people over the age of 65 should get another injection of the COVID-19 vaccine. The recommendation comes after the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted on the matter, CNN reports.1 The committee voted 11 yes, one no, and one member abstained. According to the new recommendation, anyone over the age of 65 should get the latest version of any of the available COVID vaccines if it has been at least four months since their previous shot. According to CNN, CDC epidemiologist Dr. Ruth Link-Gelles said during a meeting with ACIP advisors, “[The vaccine] doesn’t protect absolutely,” she said. “What the vaccines are doing now is providing an incremental benefit or an extra benefit beyond whatever benefit someone has remaining from their past ...
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Annually, a staggering half a million people, including numerous children and young individuals, succumb to serious infections caused by the group A streptococcal (Strep A) bacteria globally. Strep A is highly transmissible and spreads from person to person mostly via the respiratory route from sore throats. Strep A is typically known for causing sore throats and skin infections in younger children. However, both groups are very susceptible to the invasive form of the infection. In rare cases, it can lead to more severe conditions like sepsis and toxic shock if the bacteria invade the bloodstream or tissue. A particularly alarming consequence of repeated Strep A infections is the autoimmune-induced damage to heart valves, termed rheumatic heart disease (RHD). RHD affects approximately 50 million people worldwide, predominantly in middle- and low-income countries. Currently, there is no vaccine available for Strep A. The development of immunity to Strep A over time, including ...
Valneva has sold its US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) priority review voucher for €95m ($103m) to an undisclosed party. The French company received the priority review voucher when its chikungunya vaccine, Ixchiq, got FDA approval in November 2023.Valneva plans to use the funds from the voucher sale to advance its research and development (R&D) efforts, as per a 5 February press release. The voucher sale price is in line with the company’s previous projections of gaining €90m-€110m with such a sale. One of the projects that the company plans to use its proceeds for is the Lyme disease vaccine, VLA15. Valneva is co-developing the vaccine in partnership with Pfizer. VLA15 is an experimental multivalent protein subunit vaccine that targets the outer surface protein A (OspA) of Borrelia. The vaccine is being evaluated in a placebo-controlled Phase III trial (NCT05477524). The trial suffered a delay when both companies paused patient ...
On February 1, 2024, Fapon, a global leading life science company, and Bio Farma, a state-owned pharmaceutical holding company in Indonesia specializing in vaccines, life science products, and other pharmaceuticals, signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize their commitment to strengthening medical innovations in Indonesia. In doing so, the memorandum will further solidify Fapon’s global ecosystem for diagnostics and medical treatment. Jielun ZHU, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Fapon, I.G.N. Suharta Wijaya, Finance and Risk Management Director of Bio Farma and Sri Harsi Teteki, Medical, Institutional and Governance Relations Director of Bio Farma attended the official signing ceremony. The partnership between Fapon and Bio Farma focuses on developing biological medicines and technologies, medical devices, and IVD solutions with an emphasis on healthcare localization. The goal is to foster a synergistic collaboration between the two companies, drive medical innovation and technology transfer, and boost the development of healthcare ...
The start of the new year doesn’t seem to have dulled the zeal of Pfizer’s global cost-cutting campaign, which has already left hundreds of jobs in its wake.Come mid-February, Pfizer will lay off some 52 employees at a facility in South San Francisco, according to a recent Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN) alert. That address matches the former headquarters of Global Blood Therapeutics, which Pfizer scooped up for $5.4 billion back in 2022. Along with the deal, Pfizer gained GBT’s marketed sickle cell disease drug Oxbryta. “As previously communicated, Pfizer has launched an enterprise-wide cost realignment program,” a Pfizer spokesperson said via email. The program will “result in some job loss across a number of our locations, including South San Francisco,” the spokesperson said.“Pfizer does not take these changes lightly,” she added. GBT’s Oxbryta won FDA approval in sickle cell disease back in 2019. When Pfizer closed its GBT buyout in October 2022, ...
EMA has received a grant of ten million euros from the European Commission to support regulatory systems at national and regional level in Africa, and in particular for the setting up of the African Medicines Agency (AMA), in collaboration with African, European and international actors. The European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships has signed an agreement with EMA marking the official launch of the project.AMA will be a specialised agency of the African Union (AU) dedicated to improving equitable access to quality, safe and effective medical products in Africa. To date, 27 countries have ratified the AMA treaty, and more AU members are expected to complete the process in the coming months. The creation of AMA is a unique opportunity to facilitate the regulation and oversight of key medicines at continental level, promoting collaboration among African countries and regions. Cooperation and collaboration are in the DNA of the European medicines ...
January 24, 2024 Don Tracy, Associate Editor New FDA guidelines require manufacturers to add boxed warnings to CAR T-cell therapy products. On January 19, 2024, the FDA issued multiple notifications to drugmakers requiring boxed warnings to be added to all chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy products, citing additional cancer risks associated with the treatment. The agency states that the letters “notify manufacturers of each such licensed product to update the package insert to include available information related to the risks and to update the Medication Guide for these products to identify the possibility of the increased risk of getting cancers, including certain types of cancers of the immune system.” Treatments required to have updated warnings include all FDA-approved CAR T-cell therapies and licensed BCMA-directed and CD19-directed genetically modified autologous CAR T-cell immunotherapies. The letter stating these requirements has been sent to the manufacturers of Abecma, Breyanzi, Carvykti, Kymriah, Tecartus, ...
January 23 , 2024 – Jiangsu Recbio Technology Co., Ltd. (“Recbio” , HKEX:02179) is pleased to announce that the company has recently reached a License and strategic cooperation with the Saudi Arabian pharmaceutical company SPIMACO for the recombinant HPV-9 vaccine REC603. According to the agreement, Recbio exclusively authorizes SPIMACO to develop, register and commercialize the HPV-9 vaccine REC603 in 15 Middle East and North African countries, including Saudi Arabia. This strategic cooperation covers a total population of approximately 380 million in the Middle East and North African countries. Cervical cancer is the eighth most common cancer in Saudi Arabia and the eighth most common chronic cancer among women aged 15-44. The nine-valent HPV vaccine is widely regarded as the most effective vaccine against HPV and can prevent about 90% of cervical cancer and 90% of anal and genital warts. SPIMACO is one of the largest listed pharmaceutical companies in Saudi ...
Malaria remains a significant cause of illness and death, particularly in low-income countries, striking hardest among young children and pregnant women. In 2022 alone, the World Health Organization reported 608,000 malaria deaths globally, with a staggering 95% of these occurring in the African region. A key challenge in controlling malaria, especially in endemic areas, is identifying and treating asymptomatic carriers of the disease. In response to this challenge, researchers have developed advanced diagnostic tools capable of detecting even minimal traces of malaria in individuals who carry the parasite but do not exhibit symptoms. A collaborative effort between scientists from the University of Washington (Seattle, WA, USA) and Med Biotech Laboratories (Kampala, Uganda) has led to significant advancements in malaria detection. The researchers observed that malaria parasite densities in the blood can suddenly fall below the detection threshold of traditional tests due to the evolving nature of the malaria pathogens. This ...
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