Infectious disease

A day after Pfizer and partner BioNTech submitted an EUA request to the FDA for their booster shot targeting Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5, the regulator appears close to approving it.
Pfizer is to report initial data from a randomized trial of the second course of therapy of paxlovid in COVID-19 rebound patients by Sept. 2023.
A trial evaluating generic drugs against severe COVID-19 provided data showing their overall ineffectiveness, and COVID-19-related lawsuits continue to pile up.
Researchers at Case Western University looked at the real-world experiences of 13,644 patients who were treated with Paxlovid or Lagevrio (molnupiravir) during the first half of 2022.
Novavax seeks EUA for COVID-19 Booster, a 100-year-old TB vaccine may protect against the disease and public health officials struggle with fall planning.
After more than two decades of attempts to develop a universal influenza vaccine, the global COVID-19 pandemic intensified the need for a broader vaccine for both illnesses.
The U.K’s MHRA has granted conditional authorization to Moderna’s newest vaccine candidate, making it the first Omicron-specific COVID-19 booster vaccine approved by a regulatory agency.
Panacell Biotech plans to initiate a program to investigate the use of natural killer (NK) immune cells, exosomes and brown adipose-derived stem cells to treat Long COVID.
Monkeypox is spreading, COVID-19 stubbornly persists and on Tuesday, news broke of a Langya henipavirus outbreak in China.
The real positive drivers were Eylea and Dupixent. Eylea climbed 14% to $1.62 billion, while Dupixent sales jumped almost 40% to $2.09 billion for the second quarter.
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