Moderna (MRNA) stock sank Friday after the Food and Drug Administration approved its RSV vaccine, dubbed mResvia, allowing the biotech giant to launch its second-ever product.
A second dairy farm worker — this time in Michigan — has contracted bird flu in the United States this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed in a May 22 press statement. In April the CDC confirmed the first human case of the year, a dairy farm worker infected in Texas. Both […]
The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday adopted an amendment to the annual defense policy bill that would push the Department of Defense to rehire U.S. service members who were fired for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine. The measure, which would require the Pentagon to create a robust plan for rehiring those service members, was adopted […]
(Bloomberg) — Mounting cases of bird flu in humans is luring the day trading crowd to snap up stock in vaccine developers. It’s a familiar setup for industry veterans who have witnessed past trading frenzies at the first signs of an outbreak. Most Read from Bloomberg Shares of CureVac NV, which has a bird-flu vaccine […]
Picture yourself as a politician, holding the nation’s highest office during a generational emergency. You’re the president. You take action. You issue executive orders and put $18 billion into play. And it works! The crisis is met. The goal is accomplished. Lives are saved, and Americans start hoping the country is about to bounce back. […]
European Patent Office Sides with Moderna In COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Dispute With Pfizer/BioNTech Moderna Inc (NASDAQ:MRNA) has reportedly achieved a significant victory at the European Patent Office (EPO) in its ongoing legal battle with Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech SE (NASDAQ:BNTX) over the Covid-19 vaccine. The EPO’s Opposition Division upheld the validity of one of Moderna’s crucial patents, boosting the mRNA vaccine maker’s […]
Longshot Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. found little traction at a federal appeals court Tuesday for his arguments that Google violated his First Amendment rights by taking down YouTube videos it said contained misinformation about the dangers of vaccines. A three-judge panel hearing oral arguments in San Francisco sounded skeptical about Kennedy’s demand […]
The measles vaccine does not work as well in children born by caesarean, a study by the University of Cambridge has revealed. Experts found that the jab was more than twice as likely to fail in children who had been born by caesarean section rather by a vaginal delivery. The analysis revealed that 12 per […]
(Bloomberg) — Novavax Inc. shares surged after the company signed a $1.2 billion licensing agreement with Sanofi that includes commercializing a combined Covid-19 and flu shot. Most Read from Bloomberg Novavax will receive $500 million in upfront payments as well as $700 million if all development, regulatory and launch milestones are met, according to a […]
(Reuters) -AstraZeneca said on Tuesday it had initiated the worldwide withdrawal of its COVID-19 vaccine due to a “surplus of available updated vaccines” since the pandemic. The company also said it would proceed to withdraw the vaccine Vaxzevria’s marketing authorizations within Europe. “As multiple, variant COVID-19 vaccines have since been developed there is a surplus […]
AstraZeneca is withdrawing its COVID-19 vaccine from the market because of low demand, the drugmaker said Wednesday. The shot, which was never authorized in the U.S., was widely used across the world in the early part of the global vaccine drive. AstraZeneca’s shot was cheaper to make and easier to distribute than the mRNA shots […]
Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca on Wednesday said it was withdrawing Covid vaccine Vaxzevria, one of the first produced in the deadly pandemic, citing “commercial reasons” following a slump in demand. “As multiple, variant Covid-19 vaccines have since been developed there is a surplus of available updated vaccines. This has led to a decline in demand for […]