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FDA accepts Merck’s biologics license application and grants priority review for V920, the company’s investigational vaccine for Ebola Zaire virus
17 September 2019 - Merck continues to expand investigational supply to support international Ebola outbreak response. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2019
PHARMAC may have to compete for measles vaccine
17 September 2019 - PHARMAC is looking at whether it can order more measles vaccine in case the latest batch runs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2019
I'm not in ...some Third World place': bladder cancer patients face ongoing scarcity of life-saving drug
16 September 2019 - Canada's only supplier, Merck, is now projecting BCG shortage will last until December 2020. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Sep 2019
FDA reiterates the importance of vaccines such as the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) vaccine
6 September 2019 - The U.S. continues to experience cases and outbreaks of measles, largely due to unvaccinated or under-vaccinated segments ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Sep 2019
Janssen announces U.S. FDA breakthrough therapy designation for investigational prophylactic vaccine for the prevention of respiratory syncytial virus in older adults
3 September 2019 - Janssen announced today that the U.S. FDA has granted breakthrough therapy designation for the Company's investigational ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Sep 2019
NHS leaders warn of no-deal Brexit flu vaccine delays
30 August 2019 - A no-deal Brexit would make delays in the flu vaccine supply this year “likely”, according to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Sep 2019
'No jab, no pay' threat prompts an extra 174,000 children to be vaccinated in one year
1 September 2019 - A threat to cut family tax benefits for Australians who did not vaccinate their children has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2019
Free flu jabs for kids on NIP move is welcomed by state Health minister Steven Miles
28 August 2019 - Australian children aged six months to five will be given free flu vaccines in 2020 if Health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Aug 2019
Meningococcal B survivors push government for free vaccine
18 August 2019 - A vaccine exists for the most common strain of deadly meningococcal disease, yet the B vaccine is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Aug 2019
Moderna receives FDA fast track designation for Zika vaccine mRNA-1893
19 August 2019 - Moderna today announced that the U.S. FDA has granted fast track designation for its investigational Zika vaccine ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Aug 2019
Vaccinating our kids shouldn’t be this hard
3 August 2019 - It cost about $600, a frustrating 30 or so phone calls to pharmacies and several trips ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2019
Vas Narasimhan of Novartis: ‘we are not at all prepared for a pandemic’
1 August 2019 - The son of Indian immigrants read Greek philosophy and worked at McKinsey before joining a giant drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2019
Governments refuse to fund meningococcal B vaccine
4 August 2019 - Federal and state governments are refusing to fund the meningococcal B vaccine while the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2019
‘A life is more important than money’: grieving parents’ plea for funded vaccination
4 August 2019 - Little Donald Peach was fully vaccinated — or so his parents thought after following the government’s official ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2019
MPs told meningitis vaccines were always available
1 August 2019 - Pfizer officials appearing before the Health Select Committee yesterday revealed that 30,000 Meningitis vaccines were available ...