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Pfizer doses first patients with mRNA-based influenza vaccine

Available vaccine strains that match circulating influenza viruses offer only 40%-60% protection

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Pfizer/BioNTech BA.1 COVID-19 booster receives CHMP recommendation

If an authorisation is granted, doses of the bivalent booster will be available to all 27 EU member states

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Pfizer announces positive phase 3 results of RSV vaccine candidate in older adults

It is estimated that RSV infections in older adults account for 177,000 hospitalisations and 14,000 deaths each year in the US alone

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Study found Pfizer’s Paxlovid only helped over 65s avoid hospitalisation and death

Researchers studied data from 109,000 patients – nearly all of whom had been vaccinated against COVID-19, been previously infected, or both

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Pfizer told by FDA to test additional Paxlovid course in patients with COVID-19 rebound

The company must produce the initial results of a randomised controlled trial by 30 September next year

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Pfizer set to acquire Global Blood Therapeutics in deal worth $5.4bn

The acquisition will help accelerate research into sickle cell disease

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Valneva and Pfizer initiate phase 3 Lyme disease vaccine study

VLA15 is the only Lyme disease vaccine candidate currently in clinical development

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Pfizer and BioNTech initiate phase 2 study of ‘enhanced’ COVID-19 vaccine

The vaccine is based on a version of the spike protein that the companies hope will offer better and broader protection against the virus

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Pfizer and BioNTech speak out against CureVac suit over patents for COVID-19 vaccines

The civil suit claims that once CureVac had withdrawn its vaccine candidate, the company was unable to garner 50% efficacy in a late-stage trial

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COVID-19 pandemic ‘reversed’ progress made in fight against antimicrobial resistance in US, new CDC report reveals

The report concluded that resistant hospital-onset infections and deaths both increased at least 15% during the first year of the pandemic

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Evotech, Boehringer Ingelheim and bioMérieux launch joint venture to combat antimicrobial resistance

The joint company, Aurobac Therapeutics SAS, will create the next generation of antimicrobials along with actionable diagnostics to combat antimicrobial resistance

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GSK creates new consumer healthcare business, Haleon

Haleon, whose brand portfolio will include Sensodyne toothpaste and Panadol painkillers, is the combination of the consumer health businesses of GSK and Pfizer

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