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The Long Road to End Tuberculosis

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In the 1924 novel, The Magic Mountain , Thomas Mann describes a sanatorium patient named Anton Ferge as he undergoes a painful tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Even after microbiologists discovered the bacterium that causes the illness in 1882, it wasn’t until the 1920s that researchers were able to develop a vaccine for TB.

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Drop in COVID Cases Seen in Nursing Homes as U.S. Vaccine Effort Makes Headway

The Pharma Data

1, 2021 — As America’s vaccination campaign begins to gain momentum, a promising sign has emerged: Federal data shows that coronavirus cases in nursing homes have declined over the past four weeks. The country recorded 17,584 cases in nursing homes during the week ending Jan. MONDAY, Feb.1,

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The Definition of “Fully Vaccinated” Needs to Change

Eye on FDA

We now have multiple vaccines – mRNA and traditional in the U.S. We have the emergence of monoclonal antibodies and protease inhibitors being utilized or being considered as treatments for various stages of disease. However there is also an alarming rise among people who have completed their primary vaccination.

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FDA Approves Emergency Use of Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration approved Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine for emergency use on Friday, clearing the way for the launch of a national campaign to inoculate enough Americans to stem the spread of COVID-19. ” Who is first in line to be vaccinated? The nursing home industry applauded the approval. SATURDAY, Dec.

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Deliberate Dysentery

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Today, refined versions of these human challenge studies have become standard practice in testing vaccines for vector-borne diseases (e.g., yellow fever, malaria, and dengue), evaluating new drugs or treatments, and studying pathogenesis, the process by which a disease develops.

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First-in-human clinical trial for a vaccine to treat opioid use.

The Pharma Data

The first patients have been enrolled in a phase 1 randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial to study a therapeutic vaccine for opioid use disorder developed by researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School. The vaccine currently being tested stimulates the body’s immune system to produce antibodies to oxycodone.

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FDA Set to Approve Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine

The Pharma Data

Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve emergency use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine as early as Saturday after its advisory panel cleared the way for the start of a national campaign to inoculate Americans and stem the spread of COVID-19. Who is first in line? Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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