The unconventional side of vaccines

Vaccines |  Opinion | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 23 Jul, 2012

When we talk about vaccines, most people think of an injection to prevent childhood infectious disease. However, in recent years the uses to which vaccines are being put has expanded dramat...Read more

Singaporean travelers highly prone to Hepatitis A

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 30 Oct, 2012

Singapore: A study conducted in Singapore has revealed that people, who travel to high risk areas associated with infectious diseases, are increasingly getting infected by the Hepatitis A ...Read more

IAVI vaccine design can eliminate HIV

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 02 Apr, 2013

Singapore: A team led by scientists from the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) has unveiled a new technique for vaccine design that coul...Read more

Pfizer wins the race

Vaccines |  Analysis | By Aishwarya Venkatesh  | 0 Comment | 31 Oct, 2014

Singapore: The toe-to-toe battle between Pfizer and Novartis is not new to the pharma industry. The drug giants were racing to win the federal approval to first market their meningitis B va...Read more

Fujifilm to acquire US-based vaccine maker

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 31 Oct, 2014

Singapore: Japan's Fujifilm has inked a deal to acquire US-based Kalon Bio therapeutics, which has expertise in manufacturing vaccines used against pandemic influenza, Ebola and other publi...Read more

Abivax initiates hepB vaccine trial in Asia

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Mar, 2015

Singapore: ABIVAX, a clinical stage biotech company developing and commercialising anti-viral compounds and human vaccines, has initiated Phase IIb/III clinical trial of drug candidate ABX2...Read more

Pneumonia kills a 5-year-old child every 30 secs: UN

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 14 Nov, 2013

Singapore: Pneumonia remains the single biggest killer of children under the age of five globally, claiming the lives of more than one million girls and boys every year. However, the good n...Read more

Novartis, Biological E to deliver affordable vaccines

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 08 Jul, 2013

Singapore: Novartis has entered into a development and licensing agreement with Biological E Limited (BioE), a biopharmaceutical company based in India, for two vaccines to protect against ...Read more

Bharat Biotech launches first-ever typhoid conjugate vaccine

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 Aug, 2013

Bangalore: Bharat Biotech launched the world's first clinically proven typhoid conjugate vaccine Typbar-TCV, a fourth generation vaccine against typhoid disease, proven to provide long term...Read more

Ebola vaccine in progress, challenges ahead

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Oct, 2014

Singapore: In a recently organized expert consultation by WHO to assess the status of work to test and eventually license two candidate Ebola vaccines, the healthcare organization stressed ...Read more

Counterfeit drugs & their supply chain

Vaccines |  Influencers | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 25 Nov, 2014

Singapore: According to an Interpol statement, in 2009, 20 million pills, bottles, and sachets of counterfeit and illegal medicines were seized in a five-month operation coordinated across ...Read more

Sabin institute convenes scientists to discuss typhoid vaccine

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 06 Nov, 2013

Singapore: Coalition against Typhoid (CaT), an initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, will convene scientists, researchers and biotech experts at the Vaccines for Enteric Diseases (VED)...Read more

HIV vaccine may be a reality soon

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Feb, 2015

Singapore: In a recent breakthrough, researchers at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)have announced the creation of a novel drug candidate for AIDS that can work as a part of an unconve...Read more

Soon, a single flu jab can alleviate flu symptoms

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 09 Sep, 2014

Singapore: Researchers from the University of Alabama declared that they have clinched a new flu drug that can alleviate most flu symptoms in just a single shot. The drug peramivir, needs t...Read more

BMS gets FDA approval for metastatic melanoma drug

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 23 Dec, 2014

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb has recieved US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Opdivo (nivolumab) injection, for intravenous use. Opdivo is a human programmed death recept...Read more

Ebola vaccine trial begins in Liberia

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 03 Feb, 2015

Singapore: Recently formed Liberia-US clinical research partnership sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has started a large clinical trial to asse...Read more

Sinovac to supply Hep A vaccine to Jiangsu province

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 11 Nov, 2013

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading China-based vaccine manufacturer, has been selected by the Jiangsu Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Jiangsu CDC) to supply the Company's ina...Read more

Ebola vaccine trials stop!

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 23 Dec, 2014

Singapore: With the death toll hitting the 7500 mark, Ebola in West Africa has gripped the nations in a deadly epidemic. As per the WHO estimates the number of infected climbed to 20,000 an...Read more