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'Swine Flu' Strain Has Passed Between Humans & Pigs Hundreds of Times

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, July 28, 2023 -- It’s well known that some viruses make the leap from animals to humans, but a new study shows the influenza strain responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic has been particularly prolific in hopping between species.

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2009 to 2018 Saw Increase in Diseases-of-Despair Diagnoses

The Pharma Data

17, 2020 — From 2009 to 2018, there were increases in diseases-of-despair diagnoses, according to a study published online Nov. The prevalence of alcohol-related, substance-related, and suicide-related diagnoses increased by 37, 94, and 170 percent, respectively, from 2009 to 2018. TUESDAY, Nov. 9 in BM J Open. © 2020 HealthDay.

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

The Pharma Data

UK signs deals for 90 million virus vaccine doses. A rapidly-developed vaccine for H1N1 swine flu in 2009, Pandemrix, was linked to a small number of people developing chronic sleep disorder narcolepsy. Oxford coronavirus vaccine triggers immune response. Source link.

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U.S. FDA ACCEPTS FOR PRIORITY REVIEW

The Pharma Data

5 To date, ticks infected with the TBE virus have been identified in more than 35 countries across Europe and Asia. About TicoVac (TBE vaccine, whole virus inactivated). Tick-borne encephalitis virus vaccines, p 773–88. Tick-borne encephalitis virus in wild rodents in winter, Finland, 2008-2009. Barrett PN.

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Article FDA Thank You Vaccines advisory panel endorses move to trivalent formulation for U.S. flu vaccines

Agency IQ

BY AMANDA CONTI | MAR 6, 2024 8:46 PM CST AgencyIQ’s quick primer on the influenza virus and how annual vaccine strains are selected Influenza viruses have caused untold illness and death through human history. A key part of the influenza virus’ ability to infect humans is hemagglutinin (HA), a glycoprotein found on the surface of the virus.

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Merkin Prize in Biomedical Technology awarded to F. William Studier for development of widely used protein- and RNA-production platform

Broad Institute

“Today, virtually every protein you want to produce in bacteria is made with a T7 system,” said Venki Ramakrishnan of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, and a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. There’s not a single molecular biology or biochemistry lab I know that doesn’t use T7.”

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ViiV Healthcare presents positive proof-of-concept findings for GSK3640254, a novel, investigational maturation inhibitor for the treatment of HIV

The Pharma Data

They can prevent the HIV replication process by blocking key enzyme activity at this stage, which results in the formation of immature virus particles. Maturation inhibitors are a class of antiretroviral medicines that target the late stage of the HIV viral life cycle. About ViiV Healthcare.