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Spray drying specialist and capsule filling service contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO) Micro-Sphere has invested over €5 million to expand its GMP manufacturing capabilities at its facility in Monteggio, Switzerland. The investment sees the Swiss site benefit from infrastructure...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on October 19 advised adults in the United States to take Covid boosters from Novavax, even those who had received their primary round of doses from Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson. Adults 18...

A total of $38 million has been granted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the form of 19 new grants and two new contracts to support the forthcoming four years of clinical trial trials and regulatory...

An industry analysis on October 20th revealed that the number of clinical trials launched annually in Britain decreased by 41% between 2017 and 2021, creating a "clear and significant threat" to its reputation as a destination for clinical research. The...

Health is a priority for everyone, but most people tend to ignore problems with their hearing. You might assume that hearing loss is a normal part of aging or that the problems will go away with time. The unfortunate...

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...