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Reconfiguring COVID and influenza vaccines for long-term effectiveness

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Alexandre Le Vert, CEO and co-founder of Osivax, discusses the company’s breakthrough vaccine technology, oligoDOM, and how it’s driving the development of new influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines that attack T-cells, providing a long-lasting effect. The technology. Antibodies cover the pathogen of the virus and neutralise it.

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Navigating delivery challenges of nucleic acid therapeutics

European Pharmaceutical Review

According to the authors, self-amplifying RNA (saRNA) could be a next-generation vaccine platform, but it requires smart drug delivery vehicles to maintain the long-term stability and efficiency of the drug. stated that between 2004 and 2021, 23 NA therapeutics were approved. Ingle et al.

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Mesoblast pummelled as Novartis exits COVID deal

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.” It said the emergence of the Omicron and other variants suggests that COVID-19 “is likely to remain a serious global problem and to provide a major commercial opportunity for Mesoblast, with a steady state of intensive care unit (ICU) ARDS patients irrespective of vaccines and anti-viral treatments.”

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Acetaminophen interactions to avoid

The Checkup by Singlecare

Acetaminophen may also blunt the effects of other medications that impact the immune system, including some medicines used to manage cancer diagnoses and even the immune response following vaccinations. However, studies have concluded that using acetaminophen after vaccination to treat fever or pain did not affect antibody response.

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As resistant tuberculosis rises, GSK says trial backs novel antibiotic

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Cases of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB) rose 3% in 2021 over the previous year, the first increase since record-keeping started in 2004, according to the WHO report, which called for countries to move quickly to restore access to essential services to treat the disease, as well as greater investment in new vaccines and therapeutics.

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CHMP meeting highlights – July 2022

European Pharmaceutical Review

The CHMP also recommended an extension of the use of the smallpox vaccine Imvanex (live modified vaccinia virus Ankara) to include protecting adults from monkeypox and disease caused by vaccinia virus. Rubraca referral outcome.

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Pharmaceutical industry: 2023 in retrospect

European Pharmaceutical Review

During 2023, there were five revisions to the European Medicines Agency ’s (EMA’s) Questions and Answers (Q&As) for marketing authorisation holders/applicants on the CHMP Opinion for the Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 referral on nitrosamine impurities in human medicinal products. 2004; 29: 100298. J Pharm Sci.

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