As a result of the high demand for GlaxoSmithKline's new shingles vaccine, Shingrix, two U.S. senators have urged the pharma giant to boost inventory levels on facing a shortage in the supplies even after the company established their "fair and equitable" process to ship Shingrix doses.
Recent doubts about traditional egg-based flu shots could mean more business for vaccines manufactured in cells. Protection against the dominant H3N2 flu strain offered by the coming season’s flu vaccine will still be far from optimal—putting it mildly. And that's thanks to the widely used manufacturing process based on eggs, a new study predicts.
GlaxoSmithKline's new CEO Emma Walmsley isn’t the only one shaking things up at the top of the British drugmaker.
Three people injected with an unauthorized herpes vaccine by a Southern Illinois University researcher have filed suit against his company, demanding compensation for alleged adverse side effects from the experiments.
GSK touted phase 3 data of its quadrivalent flu vaccine Fluarix Tetra. As a severe flu season continues to unfold in the U.S., GlaxoSmithKline is touting phase 3 study data showing its Fluarix Tetra can protect young children who are among the most vulnerable to the virus.
UAlberta researchers created a new synthetic virus that could lead to the development of a more effective vaccine against smallpox. The discovery demonstrates how techniques based on the use of synthetic DNA can be used to advance public health measures.
For decades now, investigators have been drawn to HIV vaccine research — a Holy Grail in anti-viral research that would have an enormous impact in a world that still sees two million new infections every year.
In the first three quarters of 2017, the export sales of Chinese vaccines were 47.12 million USD with a slight increase of 6% over the same period of 2016.
Beijing Beishengyan biological Product’s Sabin Strain Inactivated Polioviurs Vaccine (Sabin IPV), secured approval from the China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) in August 2017. On September 29th, Sabin IPV was officially on the market, offering one more option for IPV precaution. With the exception of time for material supplements, the CFDA took only 35 days to process production, registration and application of Beishengyan’s IPV and issue a drug approval number and certificate.
As NousCom CEO Alfredo Nicosia likes to say, the Basel-based biotech is a relative fledgling at 2-years of age. But the core research team there has been working together for quite a few years.
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