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Flu vaccination more important than ever during the month of April
1 April 2020 - With the 2020 flu season not far away, all Australians — and especially those in vulnerable groups ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2020
People over 65 to be given new flu shot for free
1 April 2020 - Amid the COVID-19 chaos, everyone is being urged to get the flu vaccine early this year. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2020
Developing COVID-19 vaccines at pandemic speed
30 March 2020 - Rapid publication of a perspective co-authored by former head of Australian Department of Health. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Mar 2020
Johnson & Johnson announces a lead vaccine candidate for COVID-19; landmark new partnership with U.S. Department of Health & Human Services; and commitment to supply one billion vaccines worldwide for emergency pandemic use
30 March 2020 - Company Expects to Initiate Phase 1 Human Clinical Studies of Vaccine Candidate at Latest by September 2020. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2020
COVID-19: frontline virus fighters to trial TB vaccine
27 March 2020 - Thousands of Australian doctors, nurses and health workers will be given a tuberculosis vaccine in a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2020
Coronavirus drugs, vaccine are many months away, health experts say
24 March 2020 - Public- and private-sector medical officials cautioned that further study is needed to assess possible treatments pushed by ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Mar 2020
FDA and EMA collaborate to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development
23 March 2020 - Vaccines offer a way to build immunity to a disease-causing microorganism before one has ever been exposed ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Mar 2020
Coronavirus vindicates capitalism
19 March 2020 - Drug companies will save lives, even as Bernie Sanders is denouncing them. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Mar 2020
First regulatory workshop on COVID-19 facilitates global collaboration on vaccine development
18 March 2020 - Today, the first global regulatory workshop on COVID-19, was convened under the umbrella of the International Coalition ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Mar 2020
Making a new vaccine is not a race, it is a lottery
17 March 2020 - The COVID-19 novel coronavirus outbreak has challenged global researchers to find a vaccine. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Mar 2020
Covid-19: medicine, vaccine supply disruptions likely - PHARMAC
16 March 2020 - Drug buying agency PHARMAC is warning further disruptions to medicine supplies are inevitable, as measures are taken ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Mar 2020
2020 seasonal influenza vaccines
13 March 2020 - The Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee has reviewed data related to epidemiology, antigenic and genetic characteristics of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Mar 2020
Brexit means coronavirus vaccine will be slower to reach the UK
15 March 2020 - And it will cost more here because of the UK pulling out of the European Medicines Agency ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Mar 2020
COVID-19: developers of medicines or vaccines to benefit from free scientific advice
13 March 2020 - EMA provides full fee waivers for scientific advice applications from developers of potential therapeutics (to treat ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Mar 2020
Therapeutic Goods Administration prepare to fast track coronavirus vaccines and treatment
11 March 2020 - The Therapeutic Goods Administration is gearing up to fast track the approval of any vaccines or treatments ...