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The company's protein-based shot has been authorized or approved in several other countries, including the U.K. and Singapore.
Global biopharmaceutical company Sanofi (NASDAQ: SNY) encountered setbacks while developing its COVID-19 vaccine, and only this year reported results from late-stage clinical trials. Sanofi opted for the more traditional protein-based technology for its COVID-19 vaccine, Vidprevtyn, rather than the mRNA technology of Pfizer-BioNTech's Comirnaty and Moderna's Spikevax. The mRNA technology delivers genetic code instructing the body's cells to make the protein, while the more traditional approach produces the protein in a lab before injecting it into the body.
Pfizer and BioNTech say in update that changing the COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and effective.
One shot that was tested targeted Omicron specifically, while another was modified to work against the strain and the original virus.
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Mega-blockbuster Dupixent was just given the FDA's green light to treat patients with a chronic, progressive inflammatory disease.
The announcement comes three days ahead of FDA advisory panel meeting, at which advisors will vote on whether the authorized and approved Covid-19 vaccines should be updated for the fall to target more recently-circulating variants.
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The talks have picked up pace and the two companies are scheduled to meet this week. The proposed takeover would be one of the largest of the year and would beef up Merck’s cancer-drug portfolio.
Omicron has led to subvariants called BA 4 and BA 5. The current dominant variant spreading COVID in the U.S. is BA.2.12.1. What is the future of coronavirus variants?
The right to abortion will now be decided by the states.
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade, many states like South Carolina are poised to soon curb abortion, greatly expanding the distance between clinics.
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The parents of a premature baby who passed away at a Boston hospital have filed a lawsuit after the infant’s remains got lost in the facility’s morgue.
New York City is making the monkeypox vaccine available to more people as the amount of cases continues to increase in the U.S. Now, groups of at-risk men who have had multiple male sex partners, or anonymous sex in the past two weeks, are eligible to receive a dose. Dr. Celine Gounder, the editor-at-large for public health at Kaiser Health News and an infectious disease expert and epidemiologist at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue hospital, has more on what health officials are doing to combat the spread.
Is monkeypox a "public health emergency of international concern"? A WHO committee decision could come as early as Friday.
Jennifer Kerns, a California physician, will soon also practice 1,800 miles away at an abortion clinic in Kansas, where women from nearby states in the Midwest with bans on the procedure are expected to seek care. Abortion clinics and providers say Kerns is among dozens of doctors who have recently sought new medical licenses in states where abortion could remain legal, anticipating Friday's landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to end recognition of a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy. "We felt like this was part of our responsibility - to provide services in a place where they’re really needed," said Kerns, a surgeon who teaches and practices at the University of California, San Francisco, medical school.
In a historic reversal, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24 confirmed the long-awaited suspicion that they were going to weigh in and overturn Roe v Wade. Roe v. Wade has been the landmark case for abortion rights since it was decided in 1973. The case was decided on a 7-2 vote, stating that women had the constitutional right to an abortion.
Pfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and works — just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall. The vaccines currently used in the U.S. still offer strong protection against severe COVID-19 disease and death -- especially if people have gotten a booster dose. Now with omicron’s even more transmissible relatives spreading widely, the Food and Drug Administration is considering ordering a recipe change for the vaccines made by both Pfizer and rival Moderna in hopes that modified boosters could better protect against another COVID-19 surge expected this fall and winter.
President Joe Biden falsely suggested that the Supreme Court ruling Friday overturning Roe v. Wade made the U.S. an "outlier" among the developed world.
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