GSK's quadrivalent flu vaccine gets FDA nod

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has received approval from the US FDA for Flulaval Quadrivalent (influenza virus vaccin...

August 20, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Ebola: Scientists brainstorm on prevention & cure

Singapore: The US NIH announced that it is all set to launch an early-stage clinical trial of an experimental vaccine ag...

August 4, 2014 | Monday | News
Simcere reports 8.4% growth in Q1 2013

Singapore: China-based Simcere Pharmaceutical clocked $85.1 million revenue for the first quarter of 2013, representing ...

May 10, 2013 | Friday | Company results
Taiwan to get Adimmune bird flu vaccine by July

Singapore: Taiwan-based Adimmune has highlighted that it can begin supplying vaccines against the current strain of H7N9...

April 23, 2013 | Tuesday | News
VIANZ merges with Medicines New Zealand

Singapore: The Vaccines Industry Association of New Zealand (VIANZ) has merged with the industry body Medicines New Zeal...

August 9, 2013 | Friday | News
Positive result for PaxVax's oral cholera vaccine

Singapore: US-based PaxVax, a specialty vaccine company, has confirmed positive efficacy results from 90-day challenge s...

July 8, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Transgene, Tasly joint venture begins operations

Singapore: Transgene's Chinese 50:50 equity joint venture with Tasly Pharmaceutical has started its operations. The join...

July 27, 2012 | Friday | News
BioDiem to create new non-influenza vaccines

Singapore: Australian infectious disease therapy and vaccine development company BioDiem has signed an agreement with Th...

July 20, 2012 | Friday | News
Biological E cuts vaccine cost by 30% for GAVI

Bangalore: The GAVI Alliance signed a supply agreement with Biological E, India, according to which it will receive the ...

April 25, 2013 | Thursday | News
Scientists in Japan make progress in vaccine against norovirus

Singapore: Even as a new strain of stomach flu is infecting many across the world, scientists in Japan seem to have made...

April 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
China: Hepatitis B vaccines not cause of deaths

Singapore: Concluding an elaborate probe that started late last year, China has now said that the hepatitis B vaccines w...

January 7, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Shimadzu pharma summit concurs that innovation is the key

Singapore: The Shimadzu Global Pharma Summit 2012 held in Singapore sent out an unaninmous message that it is high time ...

November 2, 2012 | Friday | News
Sinovac reports positive results from EV71 trial

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a provider of vaccines in China, reported preliminary top-line data from its phase III clin...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | News
Indian remedy for Caribbean cholera outbreak

Singapore: The annual cases of cholera in the Caribbean Islands was reduced by 75 percent in the first quarter of 2014, ...

June 25, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Dr Kumar: Nobody in my family passed 10th grade

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held very high." This famous quote of Nobel winning poet Rabindranath Ta...

January 22, 2013 | Tuesday | Influencers
Single-use technology: The way forward in vaccines

Single-use technologies are a particularly smart way of manufacturing vaccines during a pandemic, when there is urgency ...

July 17, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
GSK vaccine gets positive opinion from FDA committee

Singapore: The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee vot...

November 19, 2012 | Monday | Regulatory
India's National Vaccine Policy: What next?

A year after India released its National Vaccine Policy, industry experts say it is time to draw up a plan to put the gu...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis