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Children should be given flu vaccine to protect older people pharmafile
January 02, 2019
Parents are being urged to give their children the flu vaccine in order to protect ‘older people’ from the potentially deadly virus.
China has withheld deadly bird flu samples from U.S.: NYT fiercepharma
December 12, 2018
The routine exchange of important vaccine development material may have become a victim of the trade war between the U.S. and China.
Sanofi hesitance, domestic scandal and company drama cut flu vaccine supply in China fiercepharma
December 06, 2018
It isn’t a scene one would expect after the world battled a severe flu season. But in China, supply of flu vaccines this season has come down, thanks to reduced offering from Sanofi Pasteur.
BHF urges heart patients to get flu jab pharmatimes
November 05, 2018
The British Heart Foundation is urging people with heart and circulatory disease to get vaccinated against the flu.
FDA approves first new influenza treatment in two decades pharmaceutical-technology
October 29, 2018
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval of Xofluza (baloxavir marboxil) to Japanese pharmaceutical company Shionogi for the treatment of acute uncomplicated influenza (flu).
BiondVax's Universal Flu Vaccine Clinical Trial Completes First Season's Enrollment americanpharmaceuticalreview
October 25, 2018
BiondVax announced the successful enrollment of the last participant in the first season of a pivotal, clinical efficacy, Phase 3 trial of the M-001 universal flu vaccine candidate.
Pre-clinical success for a universal flu vaccine offers hope for third generation approach worldpharmanews
September 26, 2018
Researchers from the University of Oxford's Department of Zoology have demonstrated pre-clinical success for a universal flu vaccine in a new paper published in Nature Communications.
Flu Vaccine Cuts Mortality in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients drugs
August 01, 2018
Patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), particularly elderly patients, who receive the influenza vaccine have significantly lower morbidity and mortality, according to a study published in the June issue of the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases
Universal flu vaccine biotech seeks Big Pharma partnership for phase 3 testing: CEO fiercevaccines
July 23, 2018
Problems with seasonal flu shots have been well documented, and now U.K. biotech Imutex believes it has the next big advance for flu vaccine technology.
Cell-based flu vaccines only slightly better than traditional shots in seniors: FDA study fiercevaccines
July 23, 2018
Recent studies have blamed the egg-based vaccine production process for less effective flu shots. But flu vaccines made from the newer, cell-based technology didn't perform much better in seniors last year either, a new FDA report finds.

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