vaccine
By Dan Levine and Mike Spector (Reuters) – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. played an instrumental role in organizing mass litigation against drugmaker Merck (NS:) over its Gardasil vaccine, a strategy that faces its first test in a Los Angeles court next week, according to two attorneys close to the case…
By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek (Reuters) -The U.S. will rebuild a stockpile of bird flu vaccines for poultry that match the strain of the virus circulating in commercial flocks and wild birds, the Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday, in a sign of the widespread and devastating nature of…
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -Novavax cut its annual revenue forecast on Tuesday, citing lower-than-expected sales of its COVID-19 vaccine, ahead of handing over the rights to sell the shot to French drugmaker Sanofi (NASDAQ:). Shares of the U.S. biotech firm dropped about 8.2% to $8.28 in premarket trading. The U.S.…
By Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) – Moderna (NASDAQ:) reported a surprise third-quarter profit on Thursday, driven by cost cutting and higher-than-expected sales of its COVID-19 vaccine, even with low revenue from its new respiratory syncytial virus shot. The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company posted a profit of $13 million, or 3 cents a…
By Michael Erman (Reuters) – U.S. sales of RSV vaccines from GSK and Pfizer (NYSE:) are down significantly after regulators narrowed the targeted age group and said it was a once-in-a-lifetime shot for now, excluding millions of people who got one last year. Some independent pharmacists said demand during the…
By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. farmers are increasing pressure on the Biden administration to allow vaccinations for chickens, turkeys and cows to protect them from bird flu infections that have devastated flocks for three years. This autumn, flocks in the $67 billion U.S. poultry industry…
