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World Immunization Week 2021
World Immunization Week – celebrated every year in the last week of April – aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease. Immunization saves millions of lives every year and is widely recognized as one of the world’s most successful health interventions. Yet,…
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Draft landscape and tracker of COVID-19 candidate vaccines
The COVID-19 candidate vaccine landscape and tracker database compiles detailed information on COVID-19 vaccine candidates in development.
The landscape is updated regularly - twice a week (Tuesday and Friday, 17:00 CET).
The landscape:
provides summary tables of COVID-19 vaccine…
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World Health Day
When is World Health Day?
April 7 of each year marks the celebration of World Health Day. From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific health theme to highlight a priority area of concern for the…
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Towards the Prevention of Coronavirus Infection: What Role Can Polymers Play?
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome associated coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a global public health crisis with high rates of infection and mortality. Treatment and prevention approaches include vaccine development, the design of small molecule antiviral drugs and macromolecular neutralizing…
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The pulmonary route as a way to drug repositioning in COVID-19 therapy
The outbreak of the disease caused by the new coronavirus (COVID-19) has been affecting society’s routine and its patterns of interaction worldwide, in addition to the impact on the global economy. To date, there is still no clinically effective treatment for this comorbidity, and drug…
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Formulation and Delivery Technologies for mRNA Vaccines
mRNA vaccines have become a versatile technology for the prevention of infectious diseases and the treatment of cancers. In the vaccination process, mRNA formulation and delivery strategies facilitate effective expression and presentation of antigens, and immune stimulation. mRNA vaccines have been…
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Development of vaccine formulations: past, present, and future
The current situation, heavily influenced by the ongoing pandemic, puts vaccines back into the spotlight. However, the conventional and traditional vaccines present disadvantages, particularly related to immunogenicity, stability, and storage of the final product. Often, such products require the…
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Niclosamide Inhalation Powder Made by Thin-Film Freezing: Pharmacokinetic and Toxicology Studies in…
In this work, we have developed and tested in vivo a dry powder form of niclosamide made by thin-film freezing (TFF) and administered it by inhalation to rats and hamsters. The niclosamide dry powder, suitable for inhalation, is being developed as a therapeutic agent against COVID-19 infection.…
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Formulation and stability study of hydroxychloroquine sulfate oral suspensions
Hydroxychloroquine is an antimalarial drug indicated in the treatment of acute attacks of malaria due to Plasmodium vivax, P. malariae, P. ovale, and susceptible strains of P. falciparum. It is also used for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, discoid and systemic lupus erythematosus, and more…
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Nanocarrier Vaccines for SARS-CoV-2
The SARS-CoV-2 global pandemic has seen rapid spread, disease mobidities and death associated with substantive social, economic and societal impact. Treatments rely on re-purposed antivirals and immune modulatory agents focusing on attenuating the acute respiratory distress syndrome. No curative…
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