Drug Topics

JANUARY 30, 2023

The shots should still be free to individuals because of rules barring out-of-pocket costs for such vaccinations. Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc. have indicated that they are going to price their shots at between $110 and $130.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Adults who receive influenza and pneumococcal vaccines may be more likely to receive COVID-19 vaccines and boosters.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 13, 2023

Vaccine hesitancy exists on a spectrum, but with the right tools, pharmacists can provide education and reassurance to parents and caregivers.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

MAY 11, 2023

Results published in Nature for a personalised pancreatic cancer vaccine that uses neoantigens from patients’ tumours have lent further support to early positive signals. The vaccine, developed by BioNTech, led to half of the patients with pancreatic cancer in the Phase I trial remaining cancer-free 18 months later.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 15, 2023

Investigators of the phase 2 study also found a comparable reactogenicity to the individual influenza and COVID-19 vaccines from Novavax or authorized vaccine comparators.

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The People's Pharmacy

JUNE 1, 2023

An ingenious study from Wales suggests that the shingles vaccine can reduce the risk of developing dementia ( MedRxiv, May 25, 2023 ). That said, the idea of using shingles vaccines against dementia is extraordinary. 2, 1933 were ineligible for the Zostavax vaccination to prevent shingles, whereas those born on Sept.

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Drug Topics

JUNE 1, 2023

Abrysvo is the second RSV vaccine approved by the FDA.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 24, 2023

Post-COVID-19 conditions were more common in unvaccinated children than in children who had received at least 1 dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 6, 2023

Data reveal 50% of meningitis vaccination appointments were delayed or canceled amid the COVID-19 pandemic, leading authors of a survey to highlight the need for “urgent action” to maintain routine vaccination levels among children.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 28, 2023

Prevnar 20 contains 20 serotypes and grants the broadest serotype coverage of any pediatric pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.

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STAT

MAY 18, 2023

A committee of vaccine experts voted to recommend the Food and Drug Administration approve Pfizer’s maternal RSV vaccine on Thursday, though the panel expressed some safety concerns. Read the rest…

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STAT

MAY 31, 2023

The Food and Drug Administration approved a second vaccine to protect older adults against RSV on Wednesday, giving a green light to Pfizer’s Abrysvo for adults 60 and older. Early in May the FDA approved the first ever vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, when it licensed GSK’s Arexvy.

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Drug Topics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Recent research looks at how the pandemic impacted the uptake of the human papillomavirus vaccine, which has traditionally lagged behind other pediatric vaccine rates.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 11, 2023

Researchers of a new study investigated what's causing vaccine hesitancy, and why individuals are feeling vaccine fatigue.

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Drug Topics

MARCH 21, 2023

According to a recent literature review, various factors have contributed to a shift in vaccine demand, such as perceived vaccine efficacy and safety.

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Drug Topics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The shingles vaccine appears to confer long-term immunity, according to research.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

APRIL 25, 2023

The R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine, developed by the University of Oxford , has been approved for use in Ghana (13 April 2023) and was authorised for use in Nigeria on 17 April. Professor Hill added that the “partnership with the [vaccine’s manufacturer] has been key to successful very large-scale manufacturing and rapid development.”

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Drug Topics

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Although it’s safe and recommended to co-administer these shots, research finds a reduction in flu vaccine uptake the following year.

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STAT

MAY 26, 2023

When a new and hoped-to-be safer oral polio vaccine started to make its way into use in March 2021, there was huge optimism that this long-needed tool would help the polio eradication campaign quell a growing problem that was — and is still — complicating efforts to stamp out polio forever.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 1, 2023

after vaccination with NVX-CoV2373. Analysis shows that the ratio of neutralizing antibody geometric mean titers in adolescents compared with young adults was 1.5

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Adult vaccine uptake lags and understanding the reasons could be important.

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STAT

JANUARY 18, 2023

Yet another experimental HIV vaccine has failed. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported Wednesday that a Phase 3 clinical trial of a vaccine was stopped because the vaccine was ineffective at preventing HIV infection. Read the rest…

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STAT

JANUARY 26, 2023

Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration voted Thursday to back a plan whereby all Covid vaccines would move to the formulation used for the updated boosters, a step toward the goal of creating a single annual Covid shot for most Americans.

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Drug Topics

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Pharmacists can play a key role in helping to improve backsliding vaccination rates.

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Drug Topics

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Leading health organizations are urging those with diabetes and other chronic conditions to get the influenza vaccine.

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Pharmaceutical Technology

APRIL 19, 2023

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made changes to the emergency use authorisations (EUAs) of the Pfizer -BioNTech and Moderna bivalent mRNA Covid-19 vaccines. The latest amendment aims to simplify the vaccination schedule for most people. The changes mean that the current bivalent vaccines for the original and Omicron BA.4/BA.5

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Pharmacy Times

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rohde, PhD, MS, SM(ASCP)CM, SVCM, MBCM, FACSc; review what encompasses a bivalent vaccine and give their perspective on how to communicate the role of the vaccine in optimizing protection for patients. Wendy Wright, DNP, ANP-BC, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, FNAP; Jacinda Abdul-Mutakabbir, PharmD; and Rodney E.

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Drug Topics

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Not every pharmacist may feel comfortable administering vaccines to children, but education could help.

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European Pharmaceutical Review

MAY 25, 2023

Researchers have characterised robust T-cell responses in volunteers participating in a Phase I trial for a self-assembling nanoparticle HIV vaccine. The results, published in Science Translational Medicine is a major step in the development of a vaccine for overcoming the HIV/AIDS epidemic. “We

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STAT

MARCH 16, 2023

Experts have long understood that a new polio vaccine developed to try to minimize the risks associated with the oral polio vaccine made by Albert Sabin might also cause the problem it was created to sidestep. The “2” signals the vaccine targets type 2 polioviruses.) Read the rest…

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Fierce Pharma

JUNE 1, 2023

About a month after GSK won the world's first approval for a respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine, rival Pfizer has followed suit. After winning FDA approvals one month apart, Pfizer and GSK are set to launch competing RSV vaccines this fall.

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Drug Topics

JANUARY 17, 2023

Childhood vaccinations took a downturn during the pandemic. Now is the time to get them done and pharmacists can help.

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Drug Topics

APRIL 11, 2023

Project NextGen will focus on the development of vaccines and long-lasting monoclonal antibody COVID-19 treatments.

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STAT

MAY 16, 2023

An experimental RSV vaccine developed by Pfizer to protect infants — by vaccinating pregnant people — was shown to be effective in preventing severe lower respiratory tract disease, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday in an analysis of the data generated to support licensure of the vaccine.

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PharmExec

MAY 12, 2023

Stefan Merlo, Vice President, Commercial Development, CSL Seqirus discusses how COVID-19 has evolved the discussion of vaccines and the long-term concerns stemming from flu vaccine fatigue.

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Pharmacy Times

MAY 4, 2023

Study sheds light on the importance of the source of vaccine information and other factors that prevent lifesaving influenza or pneumococcal vaccination.

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STAT

APRIL 19, 2023

An expert panel that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccination policy informally endorsed a plan Wednesday to offer an additional Covid-19 booster shot to people 65 and older as well as people who are immunocompromised, and to simplify the Covid vaccine schedule.

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