Infectious Disease Control

CGTN: China achieves 'major, decisive' victory in COVID-19 response: CPC leadership

BEIJING, Feb. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Over the past three years, China has always been putting people's lives and health first and adapting its COVID-19 response in light of the evolving situation, in efforts widely believed to have bought precious time for a smooth transition. The country has ...

2023-02-17 15:27 3339

Immuno Cure kick off Phase I Clinical Trial in Shenzhen

A significant step for developing our PD-1-Enhanced DNA Vaccine against HIV/AIDS HONG KONG, Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Immuno Cure BioTech, a clinical stage biotechnology group based in the Hong Kong Science Park specialising in PD-1-Enhanced DNA vaccines and immunotherapies,announced the ...

2023-02-16 20:36 5090

Tetracore Announces USDA Purchase of ASF and FMD Diagnostic Test Kits

ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Tetracore, Inc. (Tetracore®) is pleased to announce its partnership with the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to provide a stock of PCR kits for both African Swine Fever (ASF) and Foo...

2023-02-16 04:35 3153

U.S. Government and Novavax Extend Partnership, Securing Up to 1.5 Million Additional Doses of Novavax' COVID-19 Vaccine

* Modified agreement also includes the development of an updated vaccine in fall 2023 GAITHERSBURG, Md., Feb. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, toda...

2023-02-13 21:00 3209

U.S. Centers for Disease Control to extend National Wastewater Surveillance System contract with Biobot Analytics

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has extended its partnership with Biobot Analytics through the National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) to bring COVID-19 and mpox (formerly monkeypox) wastewater analysis to communities...

2023-02-09 06:15 2622

Pierre Fabre pursues its commitment against rare diseases in the pediatric, oncology and dermatology fields.

RARE DISEASE DAY – February 28th, 2023 The diseases are rare, but they impact a lot of people : nearly 300 million people are affected worldwide1. CASTRES, France, Feb. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- International Rare Disease Day® will be held onFebruary 28, an opportunity for the Pierre Fabre Group t...

2023-02-06 18:00 2174

Qurient Co. Ltd. and TB Alliance Announce Exclusive License Agreement for Telacebec (Q203), a New Anti-Tuberculosis Agent

Landmark Agreement for New Tuberculosis Treatment SEONGNAM-SI, South Korea and NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Qurient Co. Ltd. ("Qurient", KRX: 115180), a clinical-stage biotechnology company based inSouth Korea, and TB Alliance, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the discovery, ...

2023-02-03 14:34 2647

Global Times: Small and mid-sized cities in China go through infection peak, bearing new hope for future

BEIJING, Feb. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As media sources around the world have paid so much attention to infection surges in various metropolises or first-and-second-tier cities inChina and governments at all levels have attached great importance to anti-epidemic work in rural areas, a review on ho...

2023-02-01 22:45 2284

Global Times: Having weathered epidemic storms overseas, Chinese return to hometown for safe, joyous Spring Festival reunions

BEIJING, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Red lanterns are once again hung in the contemporary houses that combine Chinese and Western elements in the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in East China'sFujian Province. For countless overseas Chinese, this year's Spring Festival provided an opportun...

2023-01-31 22:10 2335

Global Times: 'So much better than we had anticipated': China's rural regions embrace Spring Festival as COVID peak ebbs away

BEIJING, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Spring Festival is rooted in agricultural civilization. Chinese people believe the most traditional atmosphere of Spring Festival is in rural regions. Since the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic has entered a new stage, questions have been...

2023-01-31 21:41 2270

Innovation Deficit: Funds for Neglected Diseases like TB are Falling Short

NEW YORK, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2022 G-FINDER Report, released today, reveals that for the year 2021, global funding for the development of critical new health technologies to overcome the world's deadliest neglected diseases remained woefully inadequate and largely stagnant. Specific...

2023-01-31 21:30 1919

Delivery of 170,000 Bottles of Azvudine Tablets During Spring Festival to Help Rural Areas Weather the Epidemic

HONG KONG, Jan. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the infection peak season of COVID-19 in rural areas that may be brought about by people returning home during Chinese New Year, Fosun Foundation announced on9 January 2023 the cooperation with Fosun Pharma and Genuine Biotech to donateRMB10...

2023-01-31 16:10 3429

Chula Medicine Reveals Detection of Latent Dementia

Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Center, Faculty of Medicine,Chulalongkorn University has researched a blood test for markers of Alzheimer's that can give a 10-year warning, so people can be prepared to slow down the development of dementia in old age. BANGKOK, Jan. 30,...

2023-01-30 11:01 3863

SK bioscience Introduces New Partnership Model to Establish Regional Vaccine Hubs

* SK bioscience shared a development history of the South Korea's first COVID-19 vaccine at the Riyadh Global Medical Biotechnology Summit 2023 (RGBMS 2023) in theKingdom of Saudi Arabia(KSA) * SK bioscience also explained a new global partnership model aiming to promote public health in deve...

2023-01-27 20:00 4065

Novavax Nuvaxovid COVID-19 Vaccine Approved in South Korea as an Adult Booster

GAITHERSBURG, Md., Jan. 18, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX), a biotechnology company dedicated to developing and commercializing next-generation vaccines for serious infectious diseases, today announced that partner SK bioscience has received expanded manufacturing and marketing...

2023-01-18 21:00 2679

CGTN: China's COVID-19 vaccines proven safe, effective by trials and data

BEIJING, Jan. 17, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- COVID-19 vaccines produced in China have been proven to be safe and effective by clinical trials and real-world data. The vaccines have helped save people inChina and around the world, which is an irreversible accomplishment and cannot be challenged by denia...

2023-01-17 23:50 2783

CGTN: China protects lives, shares experience in global COVID-19 fight

BEIJING, Jan. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Chinese people are embracing a bustling winter after the country downgraded its COVID-19 management policies.  It's a breakthrough in the country's three-year fight against the pandemic, but challenges still lie ahead.  Along the journey, China went all out...

2023-01-16 07:29 2385

Looking Back on Three Years of COVID-19 in China

BEIJING, Jan. 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A news report from Beijing Review: A lantern fair in Shanghai’s Yuyuan Garden attracts crowds of visitors on January 12, 2023 (WEI YAO) Entering ...

2023-01-13 22:29 3962

CGTN: TCM continues to play significant role in treating COVID-19

BEIJING, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been playing an important role inChina's fight against COVID-19.  As China is shifting the focus of its COVID-19 response from preventing infections to protecting people's health and preventing severe cases, the unique...

2023-01-11 23:09 3512

Global Times: Connected in recognition: Foreign ambassadors signal a welcome for China's optimized, responsible COVID policy

BEIJING, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- As of January 8, China downgraded the management of COVID-19 from category A to the less serious category B infectious disease in light of the evolving epidemic. The Chinese government has optimized measures to combat the epidemic in accordance with the soci...

2023-01-11 18:24 1969
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