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Pfizer's Covid Vaccine and Allergies: How Concerned Should You Be?

NY Times

British health officials recommended that people with severe allergy reactions not be given the vaccine. Such reactions to vaccines are rare, even in people who have allergies to food or bee stings.

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RVAC and University of Pennsylvania to develop mRNA vaccines

Pharmaceutical Technology

RVAC Medicines has announced a research collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) for the discovery and development of mRNA vaccines. The mRNA vaccine candidates will help reduce the chances of autoimmune responses that might lead to allergic conditions or serious autoimmune diseases.

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Coronavirus vaccine may have allergy warning in US, says expert

pharmaphorum

The US government’s coronavirus vaccine chief has said that Pfizer/BioNTech’s vaccine could carry a warning that it should be avoided by people who are prone to serious allergic reactions. Both recovered after appropriate treatment. Both are recovering well.”.

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Researchers lay groundwork for potential dog-allergy vaccine

Scienmag

There have been many research efforts describing the nature and progression of dog allergies, but there have been very few applied studies that use this information to try to cure people of dog allergies entirely by artificially inducing immune tolerance.

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HIV vaccine being developed by Johnson & Johnson fails clinical trial

STAT News

Yet another experimental HIV vaccine has failed. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported Wednesday that a Phase 3 clinical trial of a vaccine was stopped because the vaccine was ineffective at preventing HIV infection. Read the rest…

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COVID-19 vaccines and allergies: Updated advice needs to reach a wider audience, says BMJ

BioPharma Reporter

At the end of December, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) updated its advice on the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine: saying that those with unrelated allergies could receive it. But this announcement did not receive as much coverage as the MHRAâs earlier pause on vaccination in people with allergies.

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GreenLight and US NIH partner to develop Covid-19 vaccine for variants

Pharmaceutical Technology

GreenLight Biosciences has entered a partnership with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) for the development of Covid-19 vaccines, which offer broader protection against new variants and with durable effects. They intend to develop vaccines that provide lasting immune responses compared to existing vaccines.