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Coronavirus: Health workers' army to be trained to deliver Covid vaccine

The Pharma Data

The government plans to train up an army of health professionals to be ready to give the coronavirus vaccine, if and when one is shown to work. This could include pharmacists, who already deliver flu vaccines, midwives and physiotherapists. But a vaccine is not expected to be ready before Christmas.

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New Phase 3 Data Show TAK-620 (maribavir), an Investigational Drug for the Treatment of Transplant Recipients with Refractory/Resistant Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Infections, Meets Primary Endpoint

The Pharma Data

We also make targeted R&D investments in Plasma-Derived Therapies and Vaccines. 2009 Dec; 100(6):479-501. The European Blood and Marrow Transplantation Textbook for Nurses: under the Auspices of EBMT. Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation HSCtx. Accessed on December 2, 2020. Available at: [link]. Minerva Med.

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Comment: Drug discovery and the International Day of Action for Women’s Health

Drug Discovery World

1 Clinical trials Until recently, medicines and vaccines were mainly tested on men. They know that male and female bodies are genetically different, that they experience differences in the prevalence, course and severity of many common human diseases and metabolise foreign substances – like medicines and vaccines – differently.

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The New Fungus Among Us, Candida auris

PLOS: DNA Science

. “What is different and particularly scary about Candida auris is that it can survive on skin and healthcare surfaces up to two weeks, allowing the spread from person-to-person in healthcare settings and nursing homes. A vaccine being developed at the Lundquist Institute of UCLA so far works in mice and can be teamed with antifungals.

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Let's Quit Sugar With Audiobook – Let's Quit Sugar

The Pharma Data

2009 Jun;139(6):1242S-1245S. 2009 Oct;23(7):2090-5. 2009 Dec;34(13):2767-78. 2009 Apr;52(2):430-6. 2009 May;72(5):518-26. 2009 Sep 15;120(11):1011-20. DOI: 10.3390/nu8040179. Angelopoulos TJ, Lowndes J, Zukley L, Melanson KJ, Nguyen V, Huffman A, Rippe JM. DOI: 10.3945/jn.108.098194. 108.098194. 2014;3:479.

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