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Takeda Submits NDA Application For Cell Culture-Based H5N1 Vaccines

(AsianScientistMagazine) Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced on Wednesday that it has submitted New Drug Applications for cell culture-based H5N1 and prototype pandemic influenza vaccines to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare in Japan, using its Hikari Plant as the manufacturing facility. In December 2010, Takeda and the Illinois, US-based Baxter International Inc. entered into  Read More »

Varicella vaccine has long-term effectiveness against chicken pox

(Kaiser Permanente) Chicken pox, the childhood affliction of earlier generations, has been largely neutralized by the varicella vaccine, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, which appears in the current online issue of Pediatrics.

Varicella vaccine has long-term effectiveness against chicken pox

(Kaiser Permanente) Chicken pox, the childhood affliction of earlier generations, has been largely neutralized by the varicella vaccine, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, which appears in the current online issue of Pediatrics.

“New” Infectious Diseases: Successful Vaccine Developments At Themis Bioscience

(MedicalNewsToday) The Viennese biotech boutique Themis has reported rapid progress in the development of two highly efficient vaccines against Dengue and Chikungunya fever. In the just concluded preclinical studies, the two vaccine candidates, based on a technology by the Parisian Pasteur Institute, displayed exceedingly good efficacy. With a single vaccination against Chikungunya it was possible  Read More »

UK scientists develop safer foot-and-mouth vaccine

(Reuters) British scientists have developed a new vaccine against foot-and-mouth disease that is safer and easier to manufacture, an advance they believe should greatly increase production capacity and reduce costs. The technology behind the livestock product might also be applied to make improved human vaccines to protect against similar viruses, including polio

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