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Basilea awarded contract by BARDA of up to USD 89 million for the development of its novel antibiotic BAL30072

(MarketWired) BAL30072 current multiple ascending dose study reached maximum tolerated dose Further development, including combination studies with carbapenems, planned under BARDA agreement Basel, Switzerland, June 25, 2013 – Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd. (SIX: BSLN) announced today that the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a division within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Read More »

June 25, 2013
| Filed under Europe, North America, Countermeasures, International, and Research
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Inhalation anthrax treatment, raxibacumab, gets FDA approval

(TheGlobalDispatch) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved GlaxoSmithKline’s raxibacumab injection to treat inhalation anthrax, a lethal form of the infectious disease caused by breathing in the spores of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis, according to an FDA press release Friday. The approval comes just a month after the Anti-Infective Drugs Advisory Committee for FDA Read More »

June 24, 2013
| Filed under North America, Agents & Toxins, Countermeasures, and Research
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Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) – update

(WHO) The Ministry of Health (MoH) in Saudi Arabia has announced two additional laboratory-confirmed cases and a death in a previously confirmed case of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV). One case is a 41 year-old female from Riyadh who had contact with a confirmed case. The other case is a 32 year-old male from Read More »

June 24, 2013
| Filed under Africa, Europe, Middle East, North America, International, and Public Health
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Mechanism Of Immunity Discovered

(MedicalNewsToday) Scientists at the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Medicine have discovered a mechanism that is used to protect the body from harmful bacteria. Platelets, a component of blood typically associated with clotting, were discovered to actively search for specific bacteria, and upon detection, seal it off from the rest of the body. The findings, Read More »

June 21, 2013
| Filed under North America, Biotechnology, and Research
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Tests being developed to aid ricin, toxin investigations

(SpokesmanReview) As federal prosecutors build a case against a Spokane man charged with sending ricin-laced letters to the president, the CIA, a federal judge and Fairchild Air Force Base, one of the legal challenges they’ll face is proving that the substance is indeed ricin, a lethal poison derived from ground seeds of the castor plant. Read More »