Oral cholera vaccine shows promise in clinical trials

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Jul, 2015

Singapore: An oral cholera vaccine, Shanchol, developed by Shantha Biotechnics and recommended by WHO has shown promise in first real-life clinical trials by reducing severe cases of choler...Read more

Mylan injections found with foreign material

Vaccines |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 Apr, 2015

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Mylan, has run into a trouble for the presence of visible foreign material in injectable products. The company is consequently recalling the affect...Read more

India's Tergene Biotech develops vaccine for pneumonia

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 17 Jul, 2015

Singapore: Tergene Biotech, an Indian start up, has developed a promising vaccine candidate to combat pneumonia. The vaccine is targeted against specific types of bacteria that cause pneumo...Read more

WHO to initiate ebola vaccine trial in Guinea

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Mar, 2015

Singapore: WHO with the Health Ministry of Guinea, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Epicentre and The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (NIPH), has launched a Phase III trial in Gui...Read more

Queensland health officials fear measles outbreak

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 20 Jun, 2014

Singapore: With rising measles cases in Queensland, Australian health authorities fear a severe outbreak, as 41 cases have been reported so far in the country. The health officials said tha...Read more

Vietnam can now supply vaccines for the world: WHO

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 Jun, 2015

Singapore: The World Health organization recently certified Vietnam's vaccine management system as internationally standardized declaring that the Southeast Asian nation can now produce vac...Read more

Sinovac reports 31% decline in Q1, 2015 revenue

Vaccines |  Company results | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 15 May, 2015

Singapore: China biotech firm, Sinovac Biotech, has reported a decline of 31.6 percent in the first quarter of 2015, clocking the sales at $9.3million, from the previous tear. Sinovac mark...Read more

Sinovac to begin clinical trial of varicella vaccine

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 27 Oct, 2015

Singapore: Sinovac Dalian, subsidiary of China's Sinovac Biotech, has received China Food and Drug Administration approval to begin human clinical trials on its varicella vaccine candidate....Read more

Iron oxide particle found in Hospira vaccine

Vaccines |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 29 Apr, 2015

Singapore: Hospira has issued a voluntary recall of one lot of preservative-free Bupivacaine HCl Injection, due to visible particles embedded and free floating within a single-dose glass te...Read more

Watchdogs find foreign particle in Mylan cancer vaccine

Vaccines |  Regulatory | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 10 Jun, 2015

Singapore: Mylan is recalling a series of intravenous injection due to the presence of visible foreign particulate matter that might cause potential of severe health consequences. The reca...Read more

China hep B market to touch $1.4 bn by 2024'

Vaccines |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 01 Mar, 2016

Singapore: China will remain the largest major hepatitis B market over the next decade, rising from just under $923 million in 2014 to over $1.4 billion by 2024, representing a Compound Ann...Read more

Indonesia gets Bio Farma infant pentavalent vaccines

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 26 Aug, 2013

Singapore: The Indonesian Ministry of Health introduced a new immunization program and a pentavalent vaccine for babies aged two months-to-one year. The vaccine would provide immunity again...Read more

WHO stresses on effective immunization

Vaccines |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2015

Singapore: Progress towards global vaccination targets for 2015 is far off-track with 1 in 5 children still missing out on routine life-saving immunizations that could avert 1.5 million dea...Read more

What vaccines should Kate Middleton give her baby?

Vaccines |  Analysis | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 24 Jul, 2013

The Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine (Kate) Middleton, has given birth to a baby and it will soon be time for the royal newborn to get immunized against the various scourges of the mortal wo...Read more

India must leverage on its private strength

Vaccines |  Analysis | By Rahul Koul Koul | 0 Comment | 04 Jun, 2012

India recently decided to revive three of its public sector vaccine manufacturing units and a strong argument in support of their revival is that they will act as a buffer in times of medic...Read more

Malaria vaccine may be a reality soon!

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Mar, 2015

Singapore: A vaccine for malaria may soon be a reality as Melbourne researchers have made a significant discovery about how the body's immune system fights the infection. Researchers at the...Read more

China's Sinovac progresses to launch new vaccines

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 18 Mar, 2015

Singapore: China's biopharmaceutical firm, Sinovac Biotech, is progressing on its pipeline vaccines and expects to bring the much needed vaccines for infectious diseases in the market soon....Read more

No proof of human-to-human H7N9 infection'

Vaccines |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau  | 0 Comment | 06 Feb, 2014

Singapore: Amid fears of H7N9 turning into a pandemic in China with a new bout of cases, the country's National Health and Family Planning Commission released in a reassuring statement. Th...Read more