Japan’s health ministry approved a slew of new medicines on September 25 including multiple “first of its kind” products, among them being GlaxoSmithKline’s respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) vaccine Arexvy as well as Eisai’s Alzheimer’s therapy Leqembi (lecanemab).Arexvy became the first…
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AnGes Jettisons Ancestral COVID-19 Vaccine Program
AnGes said on September 7 that it will terminate the development of its COVID-19 DNA vaccine candidate based on the ancestral strain of the novel coronavirus, including high-dose versions, after clinical trials failed to deliver expected results. The Osaka University…
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