Japan’s cost-effectiveness assessment (CEA) panel has approved a revised handling policy for the CEA system for FY2026, with the health…
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Medicago/GSK’s COVID-19 Vaccine 71% Effective: PII/III
A plant-derived COVID-19 vaccine being developed by Medicago, a Canadian subsidiary of Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma, using GlaxoSmithKline’s pandemic adjuvant was 71% effective against multiple variants in a placebo-controlled PII/III study, the companies said on December 7. The companies confirmed the…
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