Vaccination
Pfizer to seek COVID booster for healthy 5- to 11-year-olds
Pfizer said Thursday it wants to expand its COVID-19 booster shots to healthy elementary-age kids.
Apr 14, 2022
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Medications
FDA launches first app to identify drug shortages
(HealthDay)—A mobile phone application (app) has been released to identify current drug shortages, resolved shortages, or discontinuations of drug products, according to a press release published by the U.S. Food and Drug ...
Mar 6, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Positive results for Lilly and Regeneron COVID antibodies
US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly's combination of two synthetic antibodies against COVID-19 reduced hospitalizations and deaths by 70 percent in high-risk patients with recent positive tests, the company said Tuesday.
Jan 26, 2021
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Medications
Doctors often overestimate promise of newly approved drugs
(HealthDay)—Use of the word "breakthrough" in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's expedited approval process could mislead doctors about the new drugs' actual benefits, researchers warn.
Apr 12, 2016
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Vaccination
US orders 200 mn more Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine doses
The United States will purchase 200 million more COVID-19 vaccine doses from Pfizer and BioNTech and has an option to buy additional doses to address virus variants, the companies announced Friday.
Jul 23, 2021
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Medications
Call for FDA to withdraw preterm birth drug divides doctors and insurers
Doctors fear that the only drug approved to prevent preterm birth, the nation's leading cause of infant mortality and disability, will no longer be available to expectant mothers.
Jan 28, 2020
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Medical research
Anchoring proteins influence glucose metabolism and insulin release
Scientists from the United States and Sweden have discovered a new control point that could be important as a drug target for the treatment of diabetes and other metabolic diseases. A-kinase anchoring proteins or AKAPs are ...
Sep 4, 2012
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Malaria treatment soon to be simpler, more flexible, and more efficient?
Malaria infections may soon be treated much more efficiently than they are at present. Researchers at the Universities of Bayreuth and Jerusalem have developed a novel drug release procedure for this purpose. The procedure ...
Mar 10, 2017
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Vaccination
Moderna says COVID vaccine 'highly effective' in adolescents
US biotech firm Moderna said Tuesday that trials had shown its COVID-19 vaccine is "highly effective" in adolescents aged 12-17 and the company would seek regulators' approval in June.
May 25, 2021
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Vaccination
Pfizer moves toward booster approval and vaccine for children
It's shaping up to be a big week for news on two eagerly awaited developments involving Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine: Booster shots and progress toward its first doses for children as young as five.
Sep 22, 2021
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