New vaccine against Hepatatis B developed by Cuba

Singapore: Researchers from Cuba have developed a new vaccine for treatment of chronic hepatitis B. The vaccine HeberNas...

August 17, 2015 | Monday | News
Malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, gets European nod

Singapore: GlaxoSmithKline has received a positive opinion for its Malaria vaccine candidate from the Committee for Medi...

July 24, 2015 | Friday | News
Novavax's Ebola vaccine shows promise in human trial

Singapore: US-based Novavax recently announced that its experimental candidate vaccine for Ebola showed promise in early...

July 22, 2015 | Wednesday | News
No more needles, no more pain!

Singapore: Vaccination will no longer be a painful process as researchers from Japan's Osaka University have developed a...

July 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Shanghai BravoBio wins BioSpectrum award for role in China vaccine industry

Chinese vaccine development companies are raising the bar to meet international standards. However, access to foreign ma...

March 15, 2013 | Friday | Influencers
WHO and World Food Program join forces to reach zero Ebola cases

Singapore: WHO and United Nations World Food Program (WFP) have come together to build logistics strength for Ebola-affe...

March 12, 2015 | Thursday | News
FDA nod for Sanofi quadrivalent flu vaccine

Singapore: The US FDA has approved Sanofi Pasteur supplemental biologics license application (sBLA) for its four-strain ...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | Regulatory
Vaccine for AIDS in ten years: Bill Gates

Singapore: With no cure or vaccine available for AIDS, that is spreading across the globe like a wide epidemic, billiona...

July 2, 2015 | Thursday | News
AIDS 2014: Slash in fund jolts HIV research

Singapore: Investment in HIV prevention research has declined posing a challenge to the pipeline of HIV prevention produ...

July 21, 2014 | Monday | News
Novartis completes divestiture of influenza vaccines business

Singapore: Novartis has announced that it has completed the divestiture of its influenza vaccine unit to CSL Limited. Th...

August 18, 2015 | Tuesday | News
J&J's HIV vaccine to begin human trials

Singapore: Bringing new hope to millions of people worldwide, the experimental HIV vaccine developed by Johnson & Jo...

July 10, 2015 | Friday | News
Agilent, A*Star, French univ sign biologics MoU

Singapore: Agilent Technologies, Glyco-MEV laboratory at the University of Rouen, France, and Bioprocessing Technology I...

May 27, 2013 | Monday | News
Stanford Univ reverse vaccine to treat diabetes

Singapore: Scientists at Stanford University, US, and Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands, have tested a...

June 28, 2013 | Friday | News
EU approves Merck's Keytruda for melanoma

Merck has announced that the European Commission has approved KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab), its anti-PD-1 therapy, for the ...

July 23, 2015 | Thursday | News
Astellas, ClearPath to enter strategic partnership

Singapore: Astellas Pharma and ClearPath Development Company have announced a strategic partnership to form a portfolio ...

January 6, 2014 | Monday | News
Sanofi gears up to introduce dengue vaccine

Healthcare stakeholders are keeping high hopes with the successful results of Sanofi Pasteur's Phase III trial of dengue...

August 15, 2014 | Friday | Influencers
India's vaccine future looks bright despite hurdles

The Indian vaccine industry has been in the past few years following close on the footsteps of the Indian pharma sector....

April 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
HIV vaccine dream can now be a reality

Singapore: Scientists at Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute of Florida (VGTI), US, a nonprofit immunological research in...

March 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Imaxio starts human trials with re-engineered TB antigen

Singapore: Vaccine firm Imaxio's proprietary pro-immunogenic technology, IMX313, has been administered for the first tim...

September 5, 2013 | Thursday | News
A push to accelerate next-gen immunogen design

According to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), in September 2009, scientists reported isolation of a pai...

July 19, 2012 | Thursday | Analysis
World Immunization Week: WHO urges renewed efforts

Singapore: Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, regional director, WHO South-East Asia, in her message has called for ensuring equ...

April 25, 2015 | Saturday | News
Thai HIV vaccine shows promise in clinical trials

Singapore: The Thai HIV vaccine that showed promise in initial clinical trials held in Thailand in 2009, has also exhibi...

November 12, 2014 | Wednesday | News
Painless vaccination unveiled!

Singapore: Though vaccination is considered the most important procedure for healthcare and disease management, it is n...

May 1, 2015 | Friday | Influencers
Bangladesh adds 2 new vaccines to Immunization Program

Singapore: Two new vaccines have been added to Bangladesh's national immunization program- Pneumococcal vaccine (PCV) an...

March 25, 2015 | Wednesday | News
China strengthens vaccine controls

Singapore: In a bid to increase the penetration of immunization programs in rural areas, the Chinese government recently...

May 15, 2015 | Friday | News
Soon, a single flu shot may offer universal immunity!

Singapore: A single vaccine that immunizes against all types of influenza may soon be a reality, after a team of scienti...

May 19, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Takeda transfers HPV vaccine license to Japanese firm

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has transferred its license agreement with the Japan Health Sciences Foundation (HS Fou...

March 12, 2015 | Thursday | News
Vaccine worth $1.3 million spoils in Pakistan

Singapore: According to recent reports from the National Health Services of Pakistan, pentavalent vaccine worth nearly $...

March 13, 2015 | Friday | News
Chinese Ebola vaccine found effective in human trials

Singapore: An experimental Ebola vaccine candidate developed by the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology and the Tianjin C...

March 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
China's vaccine for polio receives approval

Singapore: The China Food and Drug Administration made an announcement that China's top drug authority has licensed a do...

January 17, 2015 | Saturday | News
Clue to future universal dengue vaccine found

Singapore: Scientists at A*Star's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a clue that has the potential to c...

August 14, 2013 | Wednesday | News
BioSpectrum announces the hits and misses of 2013

Asia attracted a lot of interest from foreign multinational giants in the year 2013. This not only led to the increase i...

January 2, 2014 | Thursday | Analysis
Pfizer inks deal to acquire two vaccines from GSK

Singapore: To further strengthen its vaccine product pipeline, global drug giant Pfizer has inked a $130 million deal wi...

June 23, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Takeda revamps vaccine unit operations

Singapore: Takeda Pharmaceutical has decided to consolidate its Vaccine Business Unit (VBU) operations by establishing g...

June 3, 2015 | Wednesday | News
Sanofi's dengue vaccine candidate shows positive results

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi has published clinical study results of its dengue vaccine ca...

September 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Vaccine of the future: Virus-like particles to trigger body's defence

Virus-like particles (VLPs) are among the most exciting emerging vaccine technologies for generating effective and long-...

July 11, 2012 | Wednesday | Analysis
Everyone thought my $1 vaccine shot idea was crazy

My journey as a scientist and a entrepreneur began with my strong interest in science and how it relates to health and w...

May 13, 2013 | Monday | Opinion
Oral cholera vaccine shows promise in clinical trials

Singapore: An oral cholera vaccine, Shanchol, developed by Shantha Biotechnics and recommended by WHO has shown promise ...

July 10, 2015 | Friday | News
Mylan injections found with foreign material

Singapore: Global pharmaceutical company, Mylan, has run into a trouble for the presence of visible foreign material in ...

April 27, 2015 | Monday | Regulatory
India's Tergene Biotech develops vaccine for pneumonia

Singapore: Tergene Biotech, an Indian start up, has developed a promising vaccine candidate to combat pneumonia. The vac...

July 17, 2015 | Friday | News
WHO to initiate ebola vaccine trial in Guinea

Singapore: WHO with the Health Ministry of Guinea, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Epicentre and The Norwegian Ins...

March 10, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Queensland health officials fear measles outbreak

Singapore: With rising measles cases in Queensland, Australian health authorities fear a severe outbreak, as 41 cases ha...

June 20, 2014 | Friday | News
Vietnam can now supply vaccines for the world: WHO

Singapore: The World Health organization recently certified Vietnam's vaccine management system as internationally stand...

June 29, 2015 | Monday | News
Sinovac reports 31% decline in Q1, 2015 revenue

Singapore: China biotech firm, Sinovac Biotech, has reported a decline of 31.6 percent in the first quarter of 2015, clo...

May 15, 2015 | Friday | Company results
Sinovac to begin clinical trial of varicella vaccine

Singapore: Sinovac Dalian, subsidiary of China's Sinovac Biotech, has received China Food and Drug Administration approv...

October 27, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Iron oxide particle found in Hospira vaccine

Singapore: Hospira has issued a voluntary recall of one lot of preservative-free Bupivacaine HCl Injection, due to visib...

April 29, 2015 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Watchdogs find foreign particle in Mylan cancer vaccine

Singapore: Mylan is recalling a series of intravenous injection due to the presence of visible foreign particulate matte...

June 10, 2015 | Wednesday | Regulatory
China hep B market to touch $1.4 bn by 2024'

Singapore: China will remain the largest major hepatitis B market over the next decade, rising from just under $923 mill...

March 1, 2016 | Tuesday | Analysis
Indonesia gets Bio Farma infant pentavalent vaccines

Singapore: The Indonesian Ministry of Health introduced a new immunization program and a pentavalent vaccine for babies ...

August 26, 2013 | Monday | News
WHO stresses on effective immunization

Singapore: Progress towards global vaccination targets for 2015 is far off-track with 1 in 5 children still missing out ...

April 24, 2015 | Friday | Analysis
What vaccines should Kate Middleton give her baby?

The Duchess of Cambridge, Catherine (Kate) Middleton, has given birth to a baby and it will soon be time for the royal n...

July 24, 2013 | Wednesday | Analysis
India must leverage on its private strength

India recently decided to revive three of its public sector vaccine manufacturing units and a strong argument in support...

June 4, 2012 | Monday | Analysis
Malaria vaccine may be a reality soon!

Singapore: A vaccine for malaria may soon be a reality as Melbourne researchers have made a significant discovery about ...

March 18, 2015 | Wednesday | News
China's Sinovac progresses to launch new vaccines

Singapore: China's biopharmaceutical firm, Sinovac Biotech, is progressing on its pipeline vaccines and expects to bring...

March 18, 2015 | Wednesday | News
No proof of human-to-human H7N9 infection'

Singapore: Amid fears of H7N9 turning into a pandemic in China with a new bout of cases, the country's National Health a...

February 6, 2014 | Thursday | News
Tourists to soon get vaccine for 'Delhi Belly', typhoid

Singapore: Researchers at the University of Cambridge, UK, are developing a vaccine that would prevent bad stomach (or D...

June 11, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Takeda expands Singapore operation

Singapore: Japan headquartered Takeda Pharmaceutical has expanded its operations in Singapore in order to focus on emerg...

February 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
Dengue incurs annual cost of $950 mn to SE Asia

Philippines: The economic burden churned by mosquito borne disease, dengue, is costing upto $950 million to south east A...

June 20, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Ebola cure depends on biotech drug ZMapp

Strange as it may sound, the dreaded tobacco plant blamed for millions of deaths of cigarette smokers could emerge as th...

August 7, 2014 | Thursday | News
EU reviews Sanofi's 4-in-1 Influenza vaccine

Singapore: Sanofi Pasteur has been accepted for review in the European Union for a quadrivalent (four-strain) formulatio...

April 12, 2013 | Friday | News
Admedus increases share in Ian Frazer vaccine tech

Singapore: Australia's healthcare company focused on investing in and developing next generation technologies, Admedus, ...

July 24, 2014 | Thursday | News
Are declining Ebola cases a challenge for clinical studies?

Singapore: The steady decline in new ebola cases presents a formidable challenge to current and future clinical trials o...

March 16, 2015 | Monday | Analysis
BMS releases $3.5 mn fund for Hep B&C in India, China

Singapore: Bristol-Myers-Squibb Foundation has released nine new grants totaling to around $3.5 million towards hepatiti...

December 4, 2014 | Thursday | News
SII seeks WHO consent to export flu vaccines

Singapore: Serum Institute of India (SII) has applied for permits to export flu vaccines produced using Australia's BioD...

December 12, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Vaccine must to curb AIDS

Singapore: In a recent conference organized by the International AIDS Vaccine Institute, experts said that though the wo...

February 23, 2015 | Monday | News
Italy clears Novartis seasonal influenza vaccines

Singapore: The Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) has lifted the temporary halt on the use of Agrippal and Fluad vaccines i...

November 14, 2012 | Wednesday | Regulatory
Bridge to the DNA vaccine dream

Can DNA vaccines be the answer to diseases such as malaria and influenza? Though DNA-based vaccines have emerged as appe...

June 6, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Vaccine delivery technologies of the future

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a disease that causes infections of the lower respiratory tract mostly in infants and...

July 10, 2012 | Tuesday | Analysis
Polio vac mandatory for travelers from 7 nations: India

Singapore: All travelers coming from these countries to India would need to take OPV six weeks before departure from the...

March 5, 2014 | Wednesday | News
New malaria vaccine produced from algae

Singapore: US researchers have developed a new candidate vaccine for malaria from algae. In a study, published in the jo...

February 19, 2015 | Thursday | News
No vaccination, No benefits, says Australian PM

Singapore: Australian government has recently made an announcement that parents who refuse to vaccinate their children m...

April 21, 2015 | Tuesday | News
The unconventional side of vaccines

When we talk about vaccines, most people think of an injection to prevent childhood infectious disease. However, in rece...

July 23, 2012 | Monday | Opinion
Singaporean travelers highly prone to Hepatitis A

Singapore: A study conducted in Singapore has revealed that people, who travel to high risk areas associated with infec...

October 30, 2012 | Tuesday | News
IAVI vaccine design can eliminate HIV

Singapore: A team led by scientists from the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) and the International AIDS Vaccine Initia...

April 2, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Pfizer wins the race

Singapore: The toe-to-toe battle between Pfizer and Novartis is not new to the pharma industry. The drug giants were rac...

October 31, 2014 | Friday | Analysis
Fujifilm to acquire US-based vaccine maker

Singapore: Japan's Fujifilm has inked a deal to acquire US-based Kalon Bio therapeutics, which has expertise in manufact...

October 31, 2014 | Friday | News
Abivax initiates hepB vaccine trial in Asia

Singapore: ABIVAX, a clinical stage biotech company developing and commercialising anti-viral compounds and human vaccin...

March 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Pneumonia kills a 5-year-old child every 30 secs: UN

Singapore: Pneumonia remains the single biggest killer of children under the age of five globally, claiming the lives of...

November 14, 2013 | Thursday | News
Novartis, Biological E to deliver affordable vaccines

Singapore: Novartis has entered into a development and licensing agreement with Biological E Limited (BioE), a biopharma...

July 8, 2013 | Monday | News
Bharat Biotech launches first-ever typhoid conjugate vaccine

Bangalore: Bharat Biotech launched the world's first clinically proven typhoid conjugate vaccine Typbar-TCV, a fourth ge...

August 27, 2013 | Tuesday | News
Ebola vaccine in progress, challenges ahead

Singapore: In a recently organized expert consultation by WHO to assess the status of work to test and eventually licens...

October 3, 2014 | Friday | News
Counterfeit drugs & their supply chain

Singapore: According to an Interpol statement, in 2009, 20 million pills, bottles, and sachets of counterfeit and illega...

November 25, 2014 | Tuesday | Influencers
Sabin institute convenes scientists to discuss typhoid vaccine

Singapore: Coalition against Typhoid (CaT), an initiative of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, will convene scientists, resea...

November 6, 2013 | Wednesday | News
HIV vaccine may be a reality soon

Singapore: In a recent breakthrough, researchers at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)have announced the creation of ...

February 26, 2015 | Thursday | News
Soon, a single flu jab can alleviate flu symptoms

Singapore: Researchers from the University of Alabama declared that they have clinched a new flu drug that can alleviate...

September 9, 2014 | Tuesday | News
BMS gets FDA approval for metastatic melanoma drug

Singapore: Bristol-Myers Squibb has recieved US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for Opdivo (nivolumab) injec...

December 23, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Ebola vaccine trial begins in Liberia

Singapore: Recently formed Liberia-US clinical research partnership sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and I...

February 3, 2015 | Tuesday | News
Sinovac to supply Hep A vaccine to Jiangsu province

Singapore: Sinovac Biotech, a leading China-based vaccine manufacturer, has been selected by the Jiangsu Centers for Dis...

November 11, 2013 | Monday | News
Ebola vaccine trials stop!

Singapore: With the death toll hitting the 7500 mark, Ebola in West Africa has gripped the nations in a deadly epidemic....

December 23, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Serum Institute to expand India operations

Singapore: Indian vaccines major, Serum Institute is expanding its network in India by setting up a new manufacturing pl...

October 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
FDA grants approval for Pfizer's meningitis B vaccine

Singapore: The US-based drug maker Pfizer scored high with the FDA winning approval for its novel meningitis B vaccine, ...

October 30, 2014 | Thursday | News
Asia calls for urgency in typhoid vaccine

Singapore: The Coalition against Typhoid (CaT) called on policymakers and ministries of health across Asia to make typho...

September 13, 2012 | Thursday | News
Novozyme, EpiVax to develop therapy for autoimmune diseases

Singapore: Novozymes Biopharma and vaccine firm, EpiVax, have entered into two years' areement for the development of no...

December 23, 2014 | Tuesday | News
Influenza creates havoc in northeast Thailand

Singapore: A seasonal flu is multiplying in large numbers in the lower northeast region of Thailand almost doubling this...

June 12, 2014 | Thursday | News
Thai scientist 'raps' vaccine song, wins award

Singapore: Dr Phanramphoei Namprachan Frantz, a researcher at the virology and cell technology laboratory, National Cent...

October 7, 2013 | Monday | News
Sanofi dengue vaccine demonstrates proof of efficacy

Singapore: The tetravalent dengue vaccine candidate of Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi, demonstrated pro...

July 25, 2012 | Wednesday | News
Takeda's dengue vaccine trials to being in 2015

Singapore: Japan's pharma giant Takeda Pharmaceutical has said that it is planning to begin the last phase of clinical t...

September 8, 2014 | Monday | News
Nepal introduces polio shots

Singapore: In its mission to eradicate polio, Nepal had recently launched a polio eradication drive by supplementing ora...

September 19, 2014 | Friday | News
Urgent need arises for SARS vaccine

Singapore: The World Health Organization (WHO) reported four new cases of SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, an...

November 29, 2012 | Thursday | News
IAVI reafirms its commitment to AIDS vaccine

Singapore: "Do you remember the world before HIV/AIDS? Where will you be when the shadow of this disease is finally gone...

May 22, 2014 | Thursday | News

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