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HPV Vaccination Rates Could Improve With Increased Reimbursement

Drug Topics

of women aged 18-59 in 2013-2014. According to the CDC, HPV is the most commonly sexually transmitted infection in the US, with a prevalence of 45.2% of men and 39.9%

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The imperative of fridge-free vaccines

European Pharmaceutical Review

Many of today’s vaccines are produced in ready-to-inject liquid formulations that must be kept cold to maintain stability. However, this greatly complicates both the worldwide distribution and stockpiling of vaccines and other drugs. A requisite cold chain has been designed and implemented to be uninterrupted from factory to patient.

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Opinion: Another Ebola outbreak, another missed opportunity for preparedness

STAT

When I learned that an outbreak of Ebola was declared in Uganda last fall, I had a flashback to 2014 when I was working at Merck and an outbreak of Ebola disease caused by a different species of the virus emerged in full force in West Africa.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Biogen hires Viehbacher as its CEO; new dengue vaccine rolled out amid safety concerns

STAT

 But he was ousted in 2014 after an embarrassingly public conflict with the Sanofi board. At Sanofi, Viehbacher was largely responsible for repositioning the staid drugmaker and for deepening its partnership with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. But Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Moderna and BioNTech – who are they?

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Moderna and BioNTech, two rising stars in biotech, were in the limelight this year with their pioneering mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. But the tragic events of 2020 have meant these companies have become household names as their trailblazing mRNA vaccines became the first to be approved by regulators against the COVID-19 scourge.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a Novo weight loss study, a GSK vaccine failure, and more

STAT

No medications are currently approved for the treatment of obesity in children under age 12, though Saxenda was approved for adolescents in 2020 and for adults in 2014. While there were no safety concerns, the trial for a therapeutic vaccine to treat the herpes simplex virus failed to meet its efficacy objective.

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J&J ducks out of Bavarian Nordic vaccine partnerships

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Johnson & Johnson has halved the size of its collaboration with Bavarian Nordic on vaccine development, jettisoning its stake in shots targeting human papillomavirus (HPV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV). The aim of both alliances was to study MVA-BN in a prime-boost vaccine regimen with Janssen’s own AdVac vaccine technology.