Amgen completes $27.8b acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics
Amgen Inc., a US biotechnology company, completed the acquisition of Horizon Therapeutics Plc for $27.8 billion, gaining access to the Dublin-based firm’s two.
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13.4 million babies born preterm globally in 2020, nearly 1m die: UN
HQ Team October 6, 2023: About 13.4 million babies were born early in 2020, with nearly one million dying from preterm complications, according.
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Walkable environs cut risk of obesity-related cancers in women
HQ Team October 5, 2023: A new study by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and NYU Grossman School of Medicine says.
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FDA plans project to aid companies in making drugs for rare diseases
HQ Team October 4, 2023: The FDA is planning a pilot program to accelerate the development of drugs and biological products for rare.
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India’s Nipah virus cases under quarantine for 21 days, 2 people die
HQ Team October 4, 2023: All infected contacts of the two people who died in a Nipah virus outbreak in India’s southern state.
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Novavax gets FDA nod for updated Covid-19 vaccine for 12 years and above
HQ Team October 4, 2023: The US Food and Drug Administration has cleared Novavax’s updated Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use in adolescents 12.
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France’s decision to vaccinate ducks against HPAI virus invites US ban
HQ Team October 3, 2023: France has started a vaccination programme for farmed ducks to protect them against highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).
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Global health agency recommends Takeda’s dengue vaccine Qdenga
HQ Team October 3, 2023: The WHO has recommended Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co’s Qdenga vaccine for dengue where there is a high.
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WHO plans to roll out second malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M by mid-2024
The World Health Organization has recommended a second vaccine for the prevention of malaria in children to overcome a shortage of medicine, particularly in.
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Scientists behind Covid-19 mRNA vaccine bag Nobel medicine prize
HQ Team October 2, 2023: Hungarian-born biochemist Katalin Kariko and US immunologist Drew Weissman jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.