Vaccine

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GSK manufacturing woes continue

July 8, 2014
Manufacturing and Production Canada, FDA, GSK, Paxil, Vaccine, manufacturing

Health Canada has told GlaxoSmithKline that it wants to see the firm fix major problems at the country’s only flu …

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Dendreon chief resigns from struggling firm

June 10, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Dendreon, John Johnson, Provenge, Vaccine, Watson, prostate

Chief executive of Dendreon John Johnson is to step down in the summer amid falling sales of the company’s key …

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Child flu pilot ‘encouraging’

June 9, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing UK, Vaccine, chid, children, flu, government, phd

Figures from the child flu vaccine pilot launched last year by Public Health England (PHE) are encouraging, the government says. …

GAVI vaccine group call for $7.5 billion funding

May 20, 2014
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing GAVI Alliance, Vaccine, WHO, rotavirus vaccine

The GAVI Alliance is calling on donors to back ambitious plans to immunise an additional 300 million children against potentially …

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Lung cancer vaccine dropped

April 2, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, MAGE-A3, NSCLC, Vaccine, lung cancer, magrit

GlaxoSmithKline took a hit today after its lung cancer vaccine MAGE-A3 failed to benefit patients. The London-based firm has now …

Novartis pays out for US biotech

February 17, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Novartis, Vaccine, costim pharmaceuticals

Novartis is looking to shore up its cancer immunotherapy pipeline with the purchase of oncology specialist CoStim Pharmaceuticals. The Cambridge, …

World’s first Alzheimer’s vaccine trial begins

January 10, 2014
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing AC Immune, ACI-35, Alzheimer's, Vaccine

AC Immune, a privately-held biotech based in Switzerland, has launched the world’s first trial of a vaccine against a protein …

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GAVI begins roll-out of cheap HPV vaccine

October 17, 2013
Sales and Marketing GAVI, HPV, Vaccine

For the first time women in parts of the world with the highest cervical cancer death rate will be able …

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GSK sets malaria vaccine roll-out date to 2015

October 8, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing GSK, Vaccine, malaria, rts, s

GlaxoSmithKline says it is just two years away from marketing the world’s first malaria vaccine RTS,S. This follows results from …

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Calls to end UK anti-vaccine magazine

October 2, 2013
Medical Communications, Sales and Marketing Cancer, Vaccine, sense about science

British retailers like Tesco and WH Smiths are being urged to drop an anti-vaccine magazine as it could be dangerous …

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Sanaria’s malaria vaccine shows promise

August 9, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing PfSPZ, Vaccine, malaria, sanaria

Researchers in the US have announced promising results from a Phase I clinical trial of biotech firm Sanaria’s new malaria …

Bayer signs cancer vaccine research deal

August 6, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Bayer, Vaccine, compugen

Bayer has entered into a new collaboration with Compugen to develop cancer vaccines aimed at helping the body fight off …

UK rejects meningitis B vaccine Bexsero

July 25, 2013
Sales and Marketing Bexsero, Novartis, Vaccine, meningitis b

The UK government’s department for vaccinations has stunned observers by failing to back the world’s only vaccine for meningitis B. …

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Diabetes vaccine trial posts positive results

June 28, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing TOL-3021, Vaccine, diabetes

A groundbreaking new study suggests that the body’s immune system can be taught to reverse the effects of type 1 …

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FDA delays GSK flu vaccine

March 27, 2013
Research and Development, Sales and Marketing FDA, GSK, Vaccine

The FDA has cooled on GlaxoSmithKline’s latest vaccine for a bird flu pandemic, Q-Pan H5N1, despite a vote of confidence …

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