Indonesia’s Agency for Food and Drug Control (BPOM) held a workshop on Sunday on quality management for vaccine manufacturing with member states of the Organization of Islamic Conference. The BPOM workshop happened alongside the second meeting of vaccine and medicine … Read More »
Medicago, Inc., was granted a patent by the European Patent Office on Monday for proprietary influenza virus-like particles in plants. The patent, which is under number 2173886, is titled “Influenza virus-like particles (VLPs) comprising hemagglutinin produced within a plant.” It … Read More »
Emergent BioSolutions, Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company, announced on Monday that Allen Shofe, the company’s executive vice president of corporate affairs, will serve on the board of directors for the MdBio Foundation. MdBio Foundation is a Maryland-based private charitable organization … Read More »
Walgreens announced on Monday that it provided 35,000 doses of flu vaccine to the Pan American Health Organization for use in at-risk populations in Nicaragua and Laos. The donation builds on a public-private partnership between Walgreens, PAHO and the U.S. … Read More »
Professor Frances Jamieson of the University of Toronto recently created an international surveillance tracking system of infectious diseases to equip medical officials with information about which treatment method is most effective against specific strains. The system was created to address … Read More »
Confirmed cases of wild polio Somalia and Kenya were recently reported to the international community. Polio, also known as poliomyelitis, is an acute viral infectious disease that comes in a variety of strands and is spread from person to person … Read More »
The Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of Congo will launch an emergency mass vaccination campaign on Thursday against yellow fever, according to the World Health Organization. The WHO issued a global alert and response on Friday about the … Read More »
A Kansas State University researcher recently received a prestigious fellowship from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to support mosquito and malaria research. Bart Bryant, a research associate in biology, received the National Research Service Award Individual Postdoctoral Fellowship, which … Read More »