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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledged $1.2 billion at the World Health Summit in anticipation of the polio pledging event. With this funding, Bio Farma's novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2), a vaccine that took ten years to develop,...

Remdesivir from Gilead Sciences and MBP134, an experimental Ebola antibody drug from Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc., were sent by the United States last week, ending October 15th, to Uganda to help protect healthcare workers reacting to an outbreak that has...

If your doctor suggests surgery, you likely have many concerns and questions. You probably want to know as much as possible about the operation and how soon you can return to your routine. The time it takes you to...

IV therapy is a method of delivering hydrating fluids and other ingredients directly to the bloodstream.   It can be used to supplement vitamins and nutrients to address deficiencies, administer medication, and deliver several other treatments.  While most people...

Amgen's market forecast for 2022 explains how competition has led to healthcare cost savings and predicts that a sizable proportion of biologics will compete with biosimilars in five to ten years. The statistics showed that adoption in the US has...

Peter Marks, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, is not tasked with determining if the expense of the medicines his teams are reviewing is justifiable. However, he is concerned that if businesses can't figure out how...

On October 12, 2022, Moderna revealed that Merck, also known as MSD outside of the US and Canada, had chosen to use its $250 million alternative to jointly create and distribute the PCV mRNA-4157/V940. The vaccine is now being...