The UK’s Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has expanded the emergency use authorisation (EUA) for Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 mRNA vaccine called BNT162b2 to include use in children aged 12 to 15 years.
Comirnaty is claimed to be the first Covid-19 vaccine to be authorised in the EU for use in adolescents.
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) of Japan has granted emergency use authorization for Covid-19 vaccines developed by AstraZeneca and Moderna.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has expanded the emergency use authorisation (EUA) for Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine to include adolescents aged 12 to 15 years.
The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has announced that a single dose Covid-19 vaccine called Sputnik Light, obtained authorisation for use in the country.
ViiV Healthcare has initiated a rolling submission of a new drug application (NDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for long-acting cabotegravir to prevent human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
World Health Organization (WHO) has granted emergency use listing (EUL) for Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine to prevent the infection in people aged 18 years and above.
Merck, called as MSD outside the US and Canada, has signed voluntary licensing agreements with five Indian generic drug makers to expand access to Molnupiravir, an experimental oral antiviral Covid-19 therapy.
The European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended conditional marketing authorisation for AstraZeneca and Merck’s selumetinib to treat paediatric patients aged three years and older with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), symptomatic and inoperable plexiform neurofibromas (PN).
Johnson & Johnson (J&J) will resume Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in Europe following the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC), which confirmed the overall benefit-risk profile being positive.
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