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News and Trends 19 Sep 2025

GLP-1 drugs on WHO Essential Medicines List: what’s the impact?

The WHO has added GLP-1 agonists to its Essential Medicines List in 2025. Learn more about the impact of this decision.

September 19, 2025 - 9 minutesmins - By Roohi Mariam Peter

More News! 28 Nov 2022

Monkeypox stigma and racism set to end by renaming to mpox, WHO reports

The World Health Organisation (WHO) said today (November 28) it will begin using mpox, as a synonym for monkeypox. The organization confirmed that both names will be used simultaneously for a year while monkeypox is phased out. This is because of stigmatizing language and monkeypox racism that was appearing online. Some communities observed and reported […]

November 28, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 13 Sep 2022

Ilya Pharma partners with US Defense Department for wound healing drug

A drug to accelerate wound healing and reduced scar volume has had a major breakthrough shown in results from a first in human trial. Ilya Pharma, a clinical stage immunotherapy company presented the findings at the US Defense Department’s (DoD) Military Health System Research Symposium (MHSRS) Conference in Florida and made the announcement yesterday (September […]

September 13, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 9 Sep 2022

Fight against malaria boosted by findings from a vaccine trial showing high efficacy

Hope that malaria could be eradicated forever has been given a boost after new findings from a vaccine trial showed a high-rate of efficacy. Researchers from the University of Oxford and their partners have yesterday (September 8) reported new findings from their malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M phase 2b trials following the administration of a booster dose. […]

September 9, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 28 Jul 2022

Commercial launch of Monkeypox PCR test announced for research

A PCR test to pick up the monkeypox virus is now available outside the US for use in research applications by laboratories. Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD) a global medical technology company and CerTesy Biotec made the announcement today (July 27). The BD MAX System used to leverage the test is a fully integrated, automated […]

July 28, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Liza Laws

News and Trends 22 Jul 2022

Beyond Biotech podcast 6: Mogrify, +ND Capital, Poolbeg Pharma

On this week’s podcast, our guests are Jeremy Skillington, CEO of Poolbeg Pharma; Dani Bach, and Eric Moessinger, both partners at +ND Capital; and Louise Modis, chief scientific officer at Mogrify. Poolbeg Pharma gets approval for severe influenza drug trial Poolbeg Pharma, a clinical stage infectious disease pharmaceutical company, has received ethics and competent authority […]

July 22, 2022

News and Trends 15 Jul 2022

WHO and UNICEF sound the alarm as global vaccination coverage continues to decline

Amid worldwide disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, WHO and UNICEF report the largest continued backslide in childhood vaccinations in approximately three decades, with 25 million infants missing out on lifesaving vaccines in 2021 alone. It was hoped that the cohort of children that missed their vaccinations in 2020 would be caught up in 2021, […]

July 15, 2022 - 4 minutesmins - By Omnia Ibrahim

News and Trends 5 Jul 2022

Brii Bio takes hepatitis B treatment option

Brii Biosciences Limited, based in China and the U.S., has exercised its option to acquire exclusive development and commercialization rights for VIR-3434 in Greater China as part of its broader collaboration with Vir Biotechnology, Inc. VIR-3434, also known as BRII-877, is a broadly neutralizing monoclonal antibody targeting hepatitis B virus (HBV) that is currently in […]

July 5, 2022 - 3 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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News and Trends 15 Jun 2022

Eurocine Vaccines expands portfolio to develop HSV-2 vaccine

Swedish company Vaccines AB (Eurocine Vaccines) has entered into a research and collaboration agreement with Redbiotec AG. The agreement gives Eurocine Vaccines the exclusive global rights to develop, manufacture and commercialize vaccine candidates against Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 (HSV-2), based on technologies developed by Swiss biotech company Redbiotec. The agreement covers both an mRNA […]

June 15, 2022 - 2 minutesmins - By Jim Cornall

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GLP-1 drugs on WHO Essential Medicines List: what’s the impact?

Monkeypox stigma and racism set to end by renaming to mpox, WHO reports

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Fight against malaria boosted by findings from a vaccine trial showing high efficacy

Commercial launch of Monkeypox PCR test announced for research

Beyond Biotech podcast 6: Mogrify, +ND Capital, Poolbeg Pharma

WHO and UNICEF sound the alarm as global vaccination coverage continues to decline

Brii Bio takes hepatitis B treatment option

Eurocine Vaccines expands portfolio to develop HSV-2 vaccine

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