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SpiceXpress strengthens pharma cold chain capabilities with Om partnership

SpiceXpress, the cargo division of India-based carrier SpiceJet, has partnered with Om Logistics to strengthen its capabilities to transport temperature-sensitive Covid-19 vaccines. The carrier said the partnership aims to provide a “speedy, seamless and reliable solution” for the movement of...

Sanofi, GSK COVID-19 vaccine rollout delayed on low immune response in older adults

Sanofi and GSK announce a delay in their adjuvanted recombinant protein-based COVID-19 vaccine program to improve immune response in older adults. Phase 1/2 study interim results showed an immune response comparable to patients who recovered from COVID-19 in adults...

CHMP recommends approval of Plavix with aspirin in adults for certain types of strokes

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has adopted a positive opinion for an additional indication for Plavix® (clopidogrel) in adult patients with high-risk transient ischemic attack (TIA) or minor ischemic stroke (IS). This...

Astrazeneca To Test Combining COVID-19 Vaccine With Russian Shot

Britain's AstraZeneca said on Friday it would investigate combining its experimental COVID-19 vaccine with Russia's Sputnik V vaccine candidate, a move Russian scientists have suggested could sharply boost efficacy. The developers of Sputnik V suggested on Twitter last month that...

Covaxin likely to be available in first quarter of 2021: Bharat Biotech

As companies across the globe are speeding up to bring an effective COVID vaccine, Bharat Biotech’s Joint Managing Director Suchitra Ella hinted that India’s indigenous Covaxin in the country is likely to be available in the first quarter of...

Bristol Myers Squibb Receives Positive CHMP Opinion for Inrebic for Adult Patients with Newly Diagnosed and Previously Treated Myelofibrosis

Bristol Myers Squibb announced the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended approval of Inrebic® (fedratinib) for the treatment of disease-related splenomegaly (enlarged spleen) or symptoms in adult patients with...

First COVID-19 vaccine shipments arrive in Canada, more en route

Some of the country's initial 30,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines touched down on Sunday night, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on Twitter, sharing a photo of a plane being unloaded. "This is good news," he said. "But our fight...

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