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Common bacteria modified to make designer sugar-based drug

Scienmag

Process paves a road to safe, ethical, and fast drug manufacturing Credit: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute TROY, N.Y. — Envisioning an animal-free drug supply, scientists have — for the first time — reprogrammed a common bacterium to make a designer polysaccharide molecule used in pharmaceuticals and nutraceuticals.

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Lumen Bioscience’s LMN-201 secures FDA fast track status to treat CDI

Pharmaceutical Technology

Biotechnology company Lumen Bioscience has secured fast track designation from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for LMN-201 for the treatment and prevention of C difficile infection (CDI). It is compatible with standard-of-care antibiotics. It is compatible with standard-of-care antibiotics.

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As gonorrhoea threat grows, Intravacc gets $14m for vaccine hunt

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Some gonorrhoea infections have become untreatable with all seven main antibiotic classes – a situation last encountered in the 1920s before the advent of effective drugs for the bacterium. At the moment most cases are treated with azithromycin, with intravenous ceftriaxone generally reserved as a last-line therapy.

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EzriCare Eye Drops Recall: Unveiling a Nationwide Health Crisis

Roots Analysis

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a formal health advisory in response to an unprecedented outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA), a bacterium notorious for its resistance to specific antibiotics, thereby instigating severe infections in affected individuals.

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What is a natural health product? Health Canada’s findings upheld by Federal Courts

Pharma in Brief

The Courts’ decisions provide insight into how natural health products are distinguished, under federal law, from cosmetics and from drugs subject to the Food and Drug Regulations. Natural health product vs. regulated drug In Winning Combination Inc. In its August 16, 2023 decision in Le-Vel Brands, LLC v.

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Top 30 Pharma and Biotech Companies in 2023: Statistics and Trends

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Most of the company’s revenue comes from the manufacture and sale of biopharmaceutical products. Pfizer’s Top 5 Best-Selling Drugs of 2022: 1) Comirnaty Comirnaty is an mRNA-based vaccine indicated for the prevention of COVID-19. RELATED: Top 10 Medical Device Companies in 2023: Statistics and Trends 1) Pfizer By: Nadia Stec, M.Sc.

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WHO validates Saudi Arabia for eliminating trachoma as a public health problem

The Pharma Data

Trachoma is a devastating eye disease caused by infection with the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. The disease. The infection spreads from person to person through contaminated fingers, fomites and flies that have come into contact with discharge from the eyes or nose of an infected person.