Hospira recalls propofol injectable due to visible particulates in vial

Singapore: Hospira has issued a nationwide recall of seven lots of Propofol Injectable Emulsion to the user level due to...

April 21, 2014 | Monday | Regulatory
Experimental chikungunya vaccine induces antibody response

Singapore: An experimental vaccine to prevent the mosquito-borne viral illness chikungunya has elicited neutralizing ant...

August 18, 2014 | Monday | News
Medicago achieves milestone in VLP vaccine production

Singapore: Medicago, a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based o...

July 26, 2012 | Thursday | News
J&J begins Ebola vaccine trial in humans

Singapore: The trial is being led by the Oxford Vaccine Group, part of the University of Oxford Department of Pediatrics...

January 8, 2015 | Thursday | News
Influenza can get worse with every season

Singapore: Acute viral respiratory infection influenza, or flu, strikes every winter, and several nations are preparing ...

October 23, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Bill Gates commits $50 mn to combat Ebola

Singapore: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has commited USD50 million to support the scale up of emergency efforts t...

September 12, 2014 | Friday | News
Pfizer to acquire Baxter's vaccine portfolio at $635 mn

Singapore: Pfizer plans to acquire marketed vaccines portfolio of Baxter International at $635 million. As part of the ...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | News
Intra-nasal vaccine: Answer to avian influenza threat

There is a fear that avian H5N1 virus could cause a pandemic of new influenza in humans without any warning. To prevent ...

July 18, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Free cervical cancer vaccines for poor women'

Singapore: Ewha Woman's University Mokdong Hospital has announced that it is offering free cervical cancer vaccines for ...

August 1, 2014 | Friday | News
CSL ships 11 mn influenza vaccine doses to the US

Singapore: CSL Biotherapies, the US subsidiary of Australia-based CSL, has begun the shipment of its seasonal influenza ...

August 7, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Takeda gastro norovirus vaccine shows +ve results

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has achieved positive reponse from its phase I/II study of its intramuscular bivalent (...

October 7, 2013 | Monday | News
FDA to fast-track Ebola drug trials

Singapore: As the death toll reaches 1900, FDA has urged many Big Pharma with prospective Ebola interventions, to accele...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Adimmune, Valneva join hands for JE vaccines

Singapore: Taiwan based drug maker Adimunne Corp announced that it had partnered with Valneva SE, France-based vaccine m...

August 14, 2014 | Thursday | News
Experts want typhoid vaccination to be a priority

Singapore: Coalition against Typhoid (CaT), an initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, brought together global health...

June 14, 2012 | Thursday | News
Aussie firm Vaxine gets research contract from NIH

Singapore: Australia-based vaccine research firm, Vaxine, is one of the seven recipients of research contracts by Nation...

September 30, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac clocks $17.5 mn sales in Q2 2013

Singapore: China's biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech has clocked 86.4 percent increase in total sales valued at ...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | Company results
US firm developing malaria vaccine for pregnant women

Singapore: US based CMC Biologics, focused on process development and cGMP manufacture of protein therapeutics, has ente...

December 5, 2013 | Thursday | News
Canada to donate experimental Ebola vaccine to WHO

Singapore: Canada plans to donate doses of an experimental Ebola vaccine developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada...

August 13, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Dr Gautam Daftary: The Indian biologics pioneer

Indian company Bharat Serums and Vaccines boasts of a product portfolio that includes many firsts in India and the world...

February 14, 2013 | Thursday | Influencers
Inovio, GeneOne to develop Ebola vaccine

Singapore: Inovio Pharmaceuticals has collaborated with Korea-based GeneOne Life Science to begin clinical trials of its...

September 29, 2014 | Monday | News
Sinovac mumps vaccine facility gets SFDA-GMP

Singapore: Nasdaq-listed Sinovac Biotech has received GMP certification from the China State Food and Drug Administratio...

September 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
PPP is essential for ebola therapy'

Singapore: In the battle against Ebola, incentives from government and healthcare policymakers have been vital for advan...

October 16, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Taipei mayoral candidate urge for free cervical cancer vaccines

Singapore: Mr Sean Lien, the ruling Kuomintang's (KMT's) candidate for Taipei mayor, has urged the Taiwan government to ...

November 4, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Western Allergy expands into Australia

Singapore: Western Allergy, the 42-year-old vaccine firm, has announced the expansion of its business into Australia. Th...

October 21, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi Pasteur to add 2D barcode to pediatric vaccines

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, will transition six more products of its pediatric vaccine p...

July 31, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Takeda develops first-ever vomiting bug vaccine

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical is developing a vaccine against norovirus, also known as the winter vomiting bug. Dr Ra...

June 26, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi announces maiden dengue vaccine

Singapore: Countries under the clutches of Dengue can now breathe a sigh of relief, as a drug giant Sanofi Pasteur annou...

June 16, 2014 | Monday | News
Novavax begins human trial of Ebola vaccine

Singapore: The US-based Novavax recently announced that it has begun human trials for its Ebola vaccine shot. The devel...

February 13, 2015 | Friday | News
Hope against dengue as Sanofi's vaccine shows promise

Singapore: Bringing in good news for millions of dengue sufferers across the globe, Sanofi's new dengue vaccine has show...

July 29, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi, PATH deliver anti-malaria drug made from semisynthetic derivative

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical firm, Sanofi, and world organization, PATH, have initated the delivery of the first lar...

August 13, 2014 | Wednesday | News
IIL develops vaccine for blue tongue disease

Singapore: Indian Immunologicals (IIL) have developed a new vaccine for Blue Tongue disease that affects domestic animal...

September 26, 2014 | Friday | News
Get a Shot. Give a Shot'

Singapore: US-based drugstore chain, Walgreens, and the United Nations Foundation has launched "Get a Shot. Give a Shot"...

September 10, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Eisai signs deal with Sabin Vaccine Institute

Singapore: Japanese firm Eisai has entered into a partnership agreement to supply the Sabin Vaccine Institute with E6020...

September 19, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Researchers discover antibody to prevent dengue

Singapore: A group of international researchers, including from University of Melbourne, have discovered a new class of ...

December 31, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Thailand has potential to be ASEAN's vaccine hub

Singapore: Thailand has the potential to become ASEAN's vaccine hub, said the country's National Vaccine Institute (NVI)...

October 28, 2014 | Tuesday | News
IIL establishes its subsidiary in NewZealand

Singapore: Indian vaccine major, Indian Immunologicals (IIL,) has forayed into the international market by forming a sub...

December 8, 2014 | Monday | News
Sanofi's maiden dengue vaccine shows promise in phase III trials

Singapore: Dengue cases have increased almost four-fold in a few Southeast Asian countries this year, and many nations a...

September 5, 2014 | Friday | News
Sanofi Pasteur launches dengue immunization program in Philippines

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur has launched public dengue immunization program in Philippines, hosted by the Department of He...

April 4, 2016 | Monday | News
New anti-typhoid gene discovered

Singapore: Researchers have found a new variant of a gene that can confer five-fold protection against typhoid fever. Th...

November 20, 2014 | Thursday | News
Novartis' flu drug is not the cause of 13 deaths in Italy: EU regulatory

Singapore: Novartis influenza vaccine, Fluad, was taken off the shelf in Italy and its safety was questioned after 13 de...

December 4, 2014 | Thursday | Regulatory
Nasal vaccine for Ebola

Singapore: Scientists at the University of Texas have developed a new breathable vaccine that has been found to be effec...

November 6, 2014 | Thursday | News
Ebola vaccine trial update

Singapore: WHO, in consultation with over 70 experts, is assessing the status of two Ebola vaccine candidates for their ...

October 3, 2014 | Friday | News
Soon, a single HPV shot can prevent cervical cancer!

Singapore: Researchers recently demonstrated that a single dose of the bivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Cerva...

June 12, 2015 | Friday | News
Lessons from Ebola scare and treatment methods

The on-going Ebola epidemic that has affected more than 5,000 people in five west African countries and how some experim...

September 10, 2014 | Wednesday | Opinion
Cholera vaccine from Shantha Biotechnics wins BioSpectrum award

Efforts to accelerate global use of new generation cholera vaccines gained significant momentum with the licensure of a ...

April 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
WHO sets timeline for ebola vaccine

Singapore: From September 29-30, 2014, WHO organized an expert consultation to assess the groundwork of ebola vaccine de...

October 3, 2014 | Friday | News
Venter lab, Novartis to synthesize new bird flu genes

Singapore: The J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) and Synthetic Genomics Vaccines (SGVI), US, are working with Novartis to ...

April 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
H7N9 2013 – Flu returns with a vengence

The rise of the flu - Early 2013 Avian Influenza A (H7N9) Outbreak Report • 44 DEAD, 135 INFECTED• First re...

January 16, 2014 | Thursday | News
GlaxoSmithKline acquires Okairos for $325 mn cash

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has acquired Okairos, a specialist developer of vaccine platform technologies for $325 ...

May 31, 2013 | Friday | News
BioDiem's live attenuated influenza virus give positive results

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem has achieved successful result ...

August 21, 2012 | Tuesday | News
Takeda to distribute Kaketsuken's influenza vaccine in Japan

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has partnered with Chemo-Sero-Therapeutic Research Institute for the distribution of Ka...

May 21, 2015 | Thursday | News
Reality report: AIDS R&D needs more money

Singapore: Recent breakthroughs in HIV prevention research have confirmed the promise of new options to help end the AID...

July 3, 2013 | Wednesday | News
Clinical trials for GSK's Ebola vaccine to begin soon

Singapore: The clinical trials for the experimental Ebola vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline in collaboration with the...

August 28, 2014 | Thursday | News
Korean vaccine market to grow by 11.5 percent

Singapore: With pandemics lurking at the back, achieving vaccine independence has become an essential part towards healt...

August 28, 2014 | Thursday | News
Astellas inks a pact with Immunomic therapeutics

Singapore: Astellas pharma recently announced collaboration with Immunomic Therapeutics to develop and commercialize JRC...

January 30, 2015 | Friday | News
Singapore begins trial of cancer vaccine

Singapore: National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS) has launched a clinical trial of a new cancer vaccine, a form of canc...

January 30, 2015 | Friday | News
Admedus herpes vaccine trial achieves endpoint

Singapore: Australian firm, Admedus, has achieved positive endpoint in its phase I trial of a therapeutic vaccine for H...

February 3, 2014 | Monday | News
Teva suspects foriegn material in Adrucil injection

Singapore: Teva Parenteral Medicines has issued a voluntary recall of eight lots of Adrucil (fluorouracil injection) due...

May 6, 2015 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Pevion Biotech to manufacture HER-Vaxx

Singapore: Biolife Science has signed a letter of intent with Swiss company Pevion Biotech for the manufacture of Biolif...

March 18, 2013 | Monday | News
China firm develops new therapeutic vaccine for rabies

Singapore: China's Yisheng Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company developing vaccines, has developed a new vaccine for t...

March 17, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Hospira recalls Lidocaine HCI Injection for containing unwanted particles

Singapore: Global biopharmaceutical company, Hospira, has initiated recall of one lot of Lidocaine HCI Injection, USP, 2...

July 30, 2014 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Dengvaxia, world's first dengue vaccine approved in Mexico

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, has announced that the Mexican authorities have granted mark...

December 11, 2015 | Friday | News
Quality issues get Novartis vaccine in trouble in EU

Singapore: A number of European Union (EU) member states have halted the use, as a precautionary measure, of some anti-i...

October 29, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
Ebola vaccine developer turns to crowdfunding to raise money for R&D

Singapore: Pentamer Pharmaceuticals, US based biopharmaceutical company that has developed an ebola vaccine candidate, i...

October 15, 2014 | Wednesday | News
PharmaJet, CSL to make needle free flu vaccines

Singapore: US-based PharmaJet entered into a collaboration with CSL to enable Afluria influenza vaccine to be delivered...

November 30, 2012 | Friday | News
China journeys from imitation to innovation

With a population of over 1.3 billion, China is poised for continued growth in the life sciences sector. There are sever...

May 23, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Allied Healthcare cancer vaccine study is a success

Singapore: Australian biomedical company, Allied Healthcare, achieved successful results of its initial study of a novel...

November 16, 2012 | Friday | News
Korea to nurture its vaccine makers

Singapore: The Korean Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS) recently announced plans to support and nurture domestic v...

January 27, 2015 | Tuesday | News
New vulnerable site on HIV discovered

Singapore: Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) ha...

April 30, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Australia worried about low child immunization rates

Singapore: National Health Performance Authority in Australia has revealed that while Australia has high immunization ra...

April 11, 2013 | Thursday | News
Hope floats for neglected tropical diseases

The first-of-its-kind clinical trial to test the efficacy of a novel visceral leishmaniasis vaccine has started in India...

June 22, 2012 | Friday | Analysis
Sanofi Pasteur to pioneer Zika Vaccine R&D

World's leading vaccine maker Sanofi Pasteur has launched a vaccine research and development project targeting the preve...

February 4, 2016 | Thursday | News
BD to acquire Safety Syringes

Singapore: BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), a leading global medical technology company, has entered into a definitiv...

July 12, 2012 | Thursday | News
GSK, Biological E to develop 6-in-1 vaccine

Bangalore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Biological E have signed an agreement to form a 50:50 joint venture (JV) for early ...

February 1, 2013 | Friday | News
A measles vaccine with no side effect in the works

Singapore: US-based Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center is closer to launching a measles vaccine with no sideeffect a...

January 6, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Sanofi sets up dengue plant despite poor trial results

Singapore: Sanofi has set up a new factory in France for commercial production of the world's first vaccine for dengue, ...

August 6, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Merck, NewLink Genetics get $30 mn to develop ebola vaccine

Singapore: Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) of the United States Department of Health and ...

January 6, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Takeda gets Japan's nod for multiple sclerosis injection

Singapore: Japan based Takeda Pharmaceutical has a obtained new drug application approval for Copaxone Subcutaneous Inje...

September 29, 2015 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Anti-ebola drug to be used widely

Singapore: Guinea government officials have announced that the anti-ebola experimental drug, being developed by Toyama C...

February 9, 2015 | Monday | News
Single use processing technologies on rise in vaccine manufacturing

Asia Vaccine initiative is a market segment focused action plan by Process Solutions/ Merck Millipore, a division of Mer...

November 27, 2013 | Wednesday | Influencers
Pfizer to stop selling Prevnar in China

Singapore: US-based drugmaker Pfizer recently announced plans to stop selling Prevnar vaccine in China. The vaccine is a...

April 6, 2015 | Monday | News
Vaccine developers to make vaccines accessible to developing countries

Singapore: Vaccine manufacturers from around the world have pledged to come forward to support the immunization of 300 m...

January 27, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Global prophylactic HPV vaccine market to reach $2.2bn by 2022'

Singapore: The global prophylactic human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine market value is forecast to experience moderate gr...

March 20, 2014 | Thursday | News
We have to get rid of this virus'-UN ebola mission head

Singapore: Mr Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, the newly appointed head of the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Respo...

January 5, 2015 | Monday | Influencers
Malaria havoc: Cure in sight

Singapore: Health experts warned that drug resistant malarial parasites have established a strong foothold in Southeast ...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | News
Sydney sounds measles health alert

Singapore: A public health alert has been sounded in Sydney after a person contracted the highly infectious virus. The d...

July 31, 2014 | Thursday | News
World leaders commit to protect poorest children with vaccines

Singapore: Hundreds of millions of children living in the world's poorest countries will receive life-saving vaccines as...

January 29, 2015 | Thursday | News
China reports 11 new H7N9 cases

Singapore: After six new human cases of Avian Influenza H7N9 bird flu were reported from China last week, this week too ...

February 6, 2014 | Thursday | News
Beijing announces Sinovac as the supplier of flu vaccine

Singapore: Beijing government recently announced China's Sinovac Biotech as the supplier of the seasonal influenza vacci...

September 15, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Report: Novartis, Panacea end 8-year-old vaccine JV

Mumbai: An article in the Economic Times has revealed that Novartis' subsidiary Chiron has terminated its eight-year-lon...

August 30, 2013 | Friday | News
Boehringer sets up veterinary vaccine plant in China

Singapore: Pharmaceutical company, Boehringer Ingelheim has established the foundation of veterinary vaccine manufacturi...

August 19, 2013 | Monday | News
Now, Vietnam on H7N9 bird flu red alert

Singapore: A new finding revealed from a mapping study conducted by researchers has predicted that Avian Influenza H7N9 ...

March 18, 2014 | Tuesday | News
GSK to freeze vaccine prices for GAVI Alliance

Bangalore: GSK announced that it will freeze the prices of its vaccines for five years for developing countries that gra...

May 23, 2014 | Friday | News
Brazil, Mexico dengue vaccine market to grow'

Singapore: While Sanofi has progressed to phase III clinical trials for its dengue vaccine and is expecting to launch it...

July 17, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Soon, a vaccine jab to prevent heart attack

Singapore: Heart diseases, that are among the top killers across the globe can now be prevented with a vaccine. A breakt...

July 21, 2014 | Monday | News
Sinovac wins $5.1 mn vaccine contract in China

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a China-based vaccine manufacturer, has been selected by the Beijing Health Bureau and the S...

September 26, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Baxter recalls four lots of IV solutions

Singapore: Baxter is subjected to recall four lots of intravenous (IV) solutions to the hospital/user level that have be...

July 18, 2014 | Friday | Regulatory
Sinovac to supply flu vaccines to Mexico for 5 years

‎Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading provider of vaccines in China, has received Certificate of Approval to comm...

April 19, 2013 | Friday | News
Dr Il-Sup Huh: Guide of Green Cross

Before joining the family business of Green Cross in 1979, Mr Il-Sup Huh, the fifth son in the family, served the Korean...

March 14, 2012 | Wednesday | Influencers
AgResearch scientist gets grant for TB research

Singapore: An AgResearch scientist has won a Grand Challenges Explorations grant, an initiative funded by the Bill &...

November 12, 2012 | Monday | News

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