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A $25 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Helping to End Addiction Long-term Initiative (HEAL) is funding new research to develop a vaccine that may help patients overcome their addiction to opioids, a class of highly addictive pain medications.
ApiJect’s syringe is designed to be prefilled with a dose of a vaccine before it is shipped out to be used by doctors, pharmacists, hospitals, and many of the vaccination centers set up across the country. NBC noted that the prefilled technology had not been approved in the U.S.
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The government agency is asking for more information before approving a clinical study on the company’s Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T).
The vaccine distribution has been paused in the country because of six or seven cases of rare blood clots.
Acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock shared her thoughts on pandemic issues and outlined FDA modernization plans in a recent Q&A session with the Alliance for a Stronger FDA (Alliance).
The U.S. FDA’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met yesterday to make a recommendation on the current pause of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine.
The U.S. CDC said up to 5,800 people who have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have been infected by the novel coronavirus following vaccination.
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The U.S. CDC and the U.S. FDA have identified six cases in the U.S. of a “rare and severe” type of blood clot, which seems to be linked to the COVID-19 vaccine by Johnson & Johnson.
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