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First FDA pregnancy-approved Pertussis vaccine to protect newborns

European Pharmaceutical Review

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals’ Boostrix vaccine for use in pregnant woman in their third trimester, to prevent against whooping cough (pertussis) in infants up to two months of age. Researchers gave 340 volunteers a non-US Boostrix formulation and 340 a saline placebo.

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Targeting tumours with novel radiopharmaceuticals

European Pharmaceutical Review

One of the aspects of radiopharmaceuticals that is often overlooked is how complicated it is to develop a new agent, in terms of the complexity of drug design to realise a therapeutic candidate and the implementation of the clinical evaluations. This is not an effective strategy.

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Paving the way for anti-Abeta active immunotherapy

European Pharmaceutical Review

Limitations of monoclonal antibody therapies Regulatory approvals from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for aducanumab and lecanemab – and likely very soon for donanemab also – opened a route for different therapeutic modalities and other relevant disease targets, such as tau.

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Ep. 001 – John Mack Podcast Transcript

Pharma Marketing Network

You know, in November 2009, the FDA held a public hearing about the promotion of Food and Drug Administrative Related Regulated Medical Products, using the internet and social media tools. They would write up the presentations by physicians about drugs. So that was 2005. So, I didn’t look so bad. It’s a blog.

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