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Zuckerberg Tackles Vaccines With Newest Book Club Pick
2015-02-20 03:03:10| PC Magazine Software Product Guide
Now there's a Facebook comment thread that you probably aren't going to want to wade into.
Liberia begins clinical trial for Ebola vaccines as outbreak ebbs
2015-02-02 21:51:55| Biotech - Topix.net
Liberia began a trial of experimental Ebola vaccines on Monday, involving thousands of volunteers as part of an effort to slow the spread of the deadly haemorrhagic fever and prevent future outbreaks. The epidemic has killed more than 8,800 people in West Africa since it began more than a year ago, overwhelming weak healthcare systems in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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MSF slams expensive vaccines, urges GSK and Pfizer to cut prices
2015-01-20 13:04:39| Biotech - Topix.net
A girl receives anti-measles vaccination drops at a health centre in in Tondo, Manila, Philippines, September 3, 2014. REUTERS/Erik De Castro LONDON, Jan 20 - the international charity Medecins Sans Frontieres urged drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Pfizer on Tuesday to slash the price of their pneumococcal vaccines to $5 per child in poor countries.
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Intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccines show advantages in swine
2015-01-16 19:36:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Iowa State University New research at Iowa State University demonstrates that live attenuated influenza vaccines, administered intranasally to swine, provoke a broader immune response than whole inactivated virus vaccines, which are the current standard. read more
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2 Leading Ebola Vaccines Appear Safe, Further Tests Starting
2015-01-09 13:24:43| Biotech - Topix.net
The World Health Organization says the two leading Ebola vaccines appear safe and will soon be tested in healthy volunteers in West Africa. After an expert meeting this week, WHO says there is now enough information to conclude that the two most advanced Ebola vaccines ? one made by GlaxoSmithKline and the other licensed by Merck and NewLink ? have "an acceptable safety profile."
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