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CDC Guidance Considers Tecovirimat in Monkeypox

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has provided guidelines on using Siga Technologies’ Tpoxx (tecovirimat) in treating monkeypox.

Phase 3 readout sets up filings for Pfizer’s meningitis vaccine

Pfizer’s close-fought contest with GSK to bring a next-generation meningitis vaccine to market has entered the final rounds, with the former ahead on points following the readout of a pivotal pha...

AstraZeneca scores phase 3 win with novel complement drug danicopan

Prospects for AstraZeneca’s oral Factor D inhibitor danicopan were looking poor after it failed a phase 2 trial in a rare kidney disease in 2020, but a new readout could reinvigorate the drug. ...

Jasper Therapeutics’ JSP191 Gains Fast Track Designation

Jasper Therapeutics’ investigational monoclonal antibody JSP191 has gained Fast Track status from the FDA for the treatment of patients with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) undergoing all...

WHO denounces GSK-VIR, Regeneron COVID drugs following Lancet criticism

The Lancet Commission published a long critical of the World Health Organizationof the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The WHO, in turn, welcomed the Commission’s recommendations, but offered...

Mirati Releases Promising Adagrasib Results for Advanced Colorectal Cancer

Therapy shows positive clinical efficacy and favorable tolerability as a monotherapy and in combination with cetuximab in heavily pretreated patients who have a KRASG12C mutation. ...

Pfizer Begins Phase 3 Clinical Trial to Evaluate mRNA-Based Influenza Vaccine

Pfizer has announced that the first participants have been dosed in a phase 3 clinical trial evaluating the efficacy, immunogenicity, safety and tolerability of its investigational quadrivalent mod...

FDA Approves Spevigo for Treatment of Generalized Pustular Psoriasis Flares in Adults

Boehringer Ingelheim’s monoclonal antibody inhibits interleukin-36 (IL-36) signaling and is the first treatment specifically approved for this indication.

FDA Approves Mallinckrodt's Terlivaz For Injection For Treatment Of Hepatorenal Syndrome

Mallinckrodt plc (MNKPF) said that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Terlivaz (terlipressin) for injection.

A New Covid Variant Is Now Spreading - Omicron BA.4.6

London: BA.4.6, a subvariant of the omicron COVID variant which has been quickly gaining traction in the US, is now confirmed to be spreading in the UK.

Malaria vaccine candidate safe and immunogenic following first-in-human trials

Researchers from the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) report the malaria vaccine FMP013 antigen and ALFQ adjuvant combination appears safe and immunogenic for adults in the first-in-h...

IMHE Modeling Shows 307 Percent Increase in Long COVID Cases From 2020 to 2021

There was a 307 percent increase in new long COVID cases identified between 2020 and 2021, according to modeling the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IMHE)...