Global Vaccine Market Projected to Surge to $58 Billion by 2025
The global vaccine market is expected to surge to $57.5 billion by 2025, up from $33.7 billion in 2018, according to new figures from market research firm Research and Markets of Dublin, Ireland. The 7.9 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) predicted for the next 20 years is attributed to “increasing government initiatives towards immunization,” […]
Physician Scientists Fail to Disclose Pharma Conflicts of Interest in Medical Journals
Story Highlights Physician scientists are failing to disclose their financial ties to drug and health care companies in medical journals that publish scientific research widely considered to be reputable, and journals are failing to enforce disclosure requirements. The collaboration between the pharmaceutical industry and medical journals compromises public trust. These financial relationships between medical journals and the pharmaceutical industry […]
Drones to Deliver Vaccines to South Pacific Island
In the world’s first commercial trial delivery of vaccines using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), drones manufactured by Swoop Aero Ltd. of Melbourne, Australia and Wingcopter Holding GmbH & Co. of Darmstadt, Germany will deliver vaccines to children in the remote islands of Vanuatu, located in the South Pacific Ocean. If the trials are successful, they may […]
FDA Official Uses Revolving Door to Join BioTech Company Developing mRNA Vaccines
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official Wellington Sun, MD has been hired by biotechnology company Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. of Cambridge, MA to head its Vaccine Strategy and Regulatory Affairs division. Dr. Sun was director of the Division of Vaccines and Related Product Applications at the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) where he […]
Drug Companies Pay FDA and NIH to Fast Track and Market Vaccines
When it comes to cozy business relationships between government and industry, there is nothing like the lucrative one that Congress has encouraged federal health agencies to create with the drug and vaccine industry. One hand washes the other. Have you ever wondered how some new drugs and vaccines vault to the front of the line […]
FluMist Vaccine Approved by CDC Without Proof It Works
Story Highlights The CDC recommended against using the live nasal spray FluMist vaccine for the previous two “flu seasons” due to its ineffectiveness against the H1N1 strain. The CDC has done an about-face for the 2018-2019 “flu season” and is back to recommending FluMist again. The CDC’s new recommendation to use FluMist is not backed […]
