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Resistance threat to malaria drug is ‘alarming’

February 20, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Qinghaosu, artemisinin, malaria, thailand

Resistance to a group of drugs that possess the most rapid action against malaria – artemisinin, aka Qinghaosu ­– is …

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Scientists warn Ebola virus is mutating

January 29, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, GAVI, GSK, Institut Pasteur, J&J, JJ, guinea

Researchers in France studying the Ebola epidemic say the virus has mutated making it potentially even more contagious. Scientists based …

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GSK launches Ebola Phase III trial in Liberia

January 23, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, GSK, US National Institutes of Health, WHO, Wellcome Trust, liberia, newlink

A shipment of GSK’s potential vaccine against the Ebola virus disease is on its way to Liberia ready to be …

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UK nurse with Ebola in ‘critical condition’

January 6, 2015
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, GSK, Mapp, WHO, cafferky, johnson, zmapp

A British nurse that was diagnosed with Ebola last week is said to be in a critical condition at the …

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New hope through Ebola vaccine trial

December 23, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, GAVI, GSK, US, marburg, uganda

A report in the Lancet medical journal has highlighted a treatment found to be well-tolerated in healthy Ugandan adults during …

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GSK Ebola vaccine ‘promising’ in early trials

November 27, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, GSK, Takeda, Vaccine, WHO, vaccines

The first trial results for GlaxoSmithKline’s (GSK) Ebola vaccine candidate have shown that the medicine was well-tolerated and produced an …

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GSK tops pharma league for access

November 17, 2014
Sales and Marketing Africa, GSK, Novo Nordisk, access, market, vaccines

GlaxoSmithKline is basking in some good news after topping the league table of pharma companies which do the most to …

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EU and drug industry set aside €280m for Ebola

November 7, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, WHO, chan, vaccines, virus, west

The EU’s Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) has unveiled a new programme to find vaccines, drugs and diagnostics for Ebola, funded …

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J&J fast-track Ebola vaccine for early 2015 trials

September 4, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, Mapp, zmapp

Johnson & Johnson has announced it is to fast-track the development of a new vaccine programme to fight the deadly …

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GSK Ebola vaccine fast-tracked into human trials

August 28, 2014
Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, GSK, WHO, zmapp

GlaxoSmithKline has announced that its experimental Ebola vaccine is being fast-tracked into human studies to help deal with the worst-ever …

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UK nurse with Ebola given new drug in London

August 27, 2014
Medical Communications, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, zmapp

A British nurse was this weekend flown to a London hospital and is now being given an experimental drug after …

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Wellcome Trust makes Ebola research investment

August 21, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, Nigeria, deltas, welcome trust

The Wellcome Trust is launching a new multimillion pound initiative for emergency Ebola research coupled with a £40 million investment …

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Sanofi and PATH launch large-scale malaria drug production

August 19, 2014
Manufacturing and Production, Sales and Marketing Africa, Sanofi, acts, artemisinin, malaria, path

Sanofi and global health charity PATH have come together to launch a large-scale production line of malaria jab semisynthetic artemisinin …

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Untested Ebola drugs can be used in Africa

August 13, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Biocryst Pharmaceuticals, Ebola, Siga Technologies, Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, WHO, world health organization, zmapp

The World Health Organization will allow untested treatments for Ebola to be used in West Africa as the death toll …

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GSK Ebola vaccine underway

August 11, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Africa, Ebola, GSK, Vaccine, WHO, johnson

Clinical trials of an experimental vaccine against the deadly Ebola virus will begin soon according to its developers GlaxoSmithKline. The …

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