Megha Kaveri

Aug 8, 2023 | healthpolicy-watch.news | Megha Kaveri

Adding to the spate of contaminated medicines linked back to India, the World Health Organization (WHO) has flagged another cough syrup for the presence of contaminants. This is the fifth medical product alert for an Indian formulation issued by the WHO since October 2022. “A sample of the Cold Out Syrup was obtained from one location in Iraq and submitted for laboratory analysis.

Aug 3, 2023 | healthpolicy-watch.news | Megha Kaveri

Merely months after securing US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for its Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) vaccine, British pharma giant GSK has taken Pfizer to court for patent violations. GSK filed the lawsuit in a US federal court in Delaware on Wednesday alleging that Pfizer’s RSV vaccine, Abrysvo, violates four patents surrounding the antigen that GSK uses in its own RSV vaccine, Arexvy, Reuters reported.

Aug 2, 2023 | healthpolicy-watch.news | Megha Kaveri

Older adults vaccinated with Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine were 15% less likely to be infected with COVID-19 than those vaccinated with Pfizer-BioNTech’s, according to a peer-reviewed study, published in JAMA Network on Wednesday. The study was based on observational data from 6.3 million adults, almost 60% women and 86.5% White, with an average age of 76 years old and were inoculated with either of the two mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

Jul 25, 2023 | healthpolicy-watch.news | Megha Kaveri

The cases of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, a sexually transmitted disease, are on the rise in many parts of the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The agency added that it considers Neisseria gonorrhoea a “priority microorganism” to be monitored for antimicrobial resistance. The new WHO guidance on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) requires countries to work towards improving access to better testing and diagnostic services.

Jul 20, 2023 | healthpolicy-watch.news | Megha Kaveri

Guns and firearms were the leading causes of death amongst children and teenagers aged 1-17 in the US in 2020 and 2021, according to a new study published by KFF, a US-based policy think tank. The number of children dying in gun-related incidents in the US has doubled since 2013, and now ranks higher than other causes of death like injury and illnesses. Death by firearms includes suicide attacks, assaults, and attacks for undetermined reasons.