Lucio Vasquez / Houston Public Media A woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine at the Acres Homes Multi-Service Center on Feb. 16. 2022. The latest COVID-19 vaccine has local health officials feeling optimistic that skeptics will roll up their sleeves and get vaccinated with a new option available. The Novavax vaccine is now the fourth available … Read more
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO — Pfizer will spend about $5.4 billion to buy Global Blood Therapeutics as the pharmaceutical giant continues to invest some of the cash influx reaped during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pfizer said Monday that the acquisition will boost its work in rare hematology. Global Therapeutics, which was founded in 2011 and is headquartered … Read more
Pfizer is one of the top makers of Covid-19 vaccines.(File) New York: American drugmaker Pfizer is close to a deal to purchase Global Blood Therapeutics, which manufactures a recently approved drug against sickle-cell anemia, for $5 billion, the Wall Street Journal has reported. Pfizer, one of the top makers of Covid-19 vaccines, hopes to conclude … Read more
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The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for kids between the ages of six months and five years has been authorized by Health Canada, making it the first shot to be offered to young children. Many parents are breathing a sigh of relief, in anticipation of what is likely to be the final leg of Canada’s age-based vaccination … Read more
New York City middle and high schools are set to receive a $1.5 million grant from Pfizer Inc. for science, technology, engineering and math programs, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday. The grant was made to the Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, according to a City Hall press release. “If we don’t educate, … Read more
SILVER SPRINGS, Md. (CW44 News At 10 | CNN) — The US Food and Drug Administration revised the emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s Covid-19 antiviral treatment, Paxlovid, on Wednesday to allow state-licensed pharmacists to prescribe the treatment to people who are eligible. “The FDA recognizes the important role pharmacists have played and continue to play in … Read more
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Get ready to roll up your sleeves again, now that Canada’s national advisory body on vaccines has released guidelines that could lay the groundwork for a fall booster campaign — and dialled up the urgency on recommendations that people sign up for more shots. Broadly speaking, no matter how many previous COVID shots you’ve had, … Read more
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials said Wednesday they have agreed to purchase another 105 million doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in anticipation of a fall booster campaign. The $3.2 billion deal announced by the Biden administration comes as federal scientists consider how to update the vaccines to better protect Americans from the rapidly evolving virus. … Read more
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Food and Drug Administration advisers voted in favor of updating the new COVID-19 vaccine to include the latest omicron subvariants. An FDA expert panel determined the vaccines should be updated with the BA.4 and BA.5 omicron subvariants. It’s the most current variant. Scientists agreed boosters should also include the original strain. … Read more
The EU’s internal watchdog has criticised as “problematic” the European Commission’s defence over its refusal to release text messages between President Ursula von der Leyen and the CEO of Pfizer. The EU Ombudsman had called on the bloc’s executive to share the controversial exchanges about the EU’s purchase of vaccine contracts. The text exchange was reported by … Read more