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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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However, the blandly clinical package of artemisinin and artesunate tablets reveals little about how the key compound was first discovered. Current vaccines and medicines work by intervening against these life phases. It was only in 2005, after the emergence of widespread resistance of P.

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Unimpressed Learned Intermediaries Defeat Warning Causation

Drug & Device Law

1981) (applying Virginia law), both of which involved vaccines. In Stanback the prescriber had a similar practice of not warning of a “slight risk,” which led to the same result: [The prescriber] averred that he had not found it necessary and did not make it his practice to advise patients about the risks associated with flu vaccinations.

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A Texas Mess

Drug & Device Law

The complaint, brought under the Texas consumer protection statute, sued a major manufacturer of COVID-19 vaccine that was used to control the recent pandemic. To the contrary, the COVID-19 vaccine in question was fully approved by the FDA as safe and effective on August 23, 2021, and has remained so (or updated versions have) ever since.

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