Vaccines
Vaccines help prevent the spread of disease by leveraging the immune system. Preventative vaccines help develop immunity to a disease by imitating, but not causing, an infection. Therapeutic vaccines help the body identify and target diseased cells.
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A New Era for Vaccines
National Immunization Awareness Month, sponsored every August by the National Public Health Informat…
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Vaccines: Cutting Health Care Costs While Saving Countless Lives
In the United States, 16 diseases are now preventable as a result of childhood vaccines, resulting i…
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Progress Against Infectious Diseases: Where Do We Stand?
Over the years, treatments for infectious diseases have grown steadily more complex, and today, our…
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How Biopharmaceutical Science Is Fighting Back Against the Coronavirus
As people across the globe continue to be impacted by COVID-19, the disease caused by a new strain o…
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Researcher Profile: Dr. Yasmeen Agosti
At Pfizer, Yasmeen works to develop maternal vaccines that have the potential to help prevent diseas…
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Why innovation is vital: My battle with C. difficile
Simon Jenkins, who suffered from C. diff, shares his story and hope for future treatments.
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Researcher Profile Rino Rappuoli
Dr. Rino Rappuoli, a scientist at GSK, has helped pioneer vaccines that can help prevent meningococc…
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Researcher Profile: Gokul Swaminathan
Dr. Gokul Swaminathan of Merck researches potential vaccines that can train the body to recognize an…
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Researcher Profile: Michael Pride
To demonstrate the incredible work pursued by America's biopharmaceutical researchers, we're sharing…
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I'm One of the Lucky Ones
Learn about Jamie Schanbaum's near-fatal battle with meningitis, and the importance of getting vacci…
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Researcher Profile: Rajeev Venkayya
Dr. Rajeev Venkayya joined Takeda in 2012, to launch the company's global vaccine business.
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Study Shows 35 Years of Progress in Treating Infectious Disease
Advances in medicine have helped lower the mortality rate from infectious disease by nearly 19 perce…
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Vaccines Advancing Human Health
For decades we have seen unparalleled progress in vaccine development, with more than 260 vaccines i…
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Advancing Patient Care: How Genomics is Transforming Modern Medicine
At a recent event held by The Atlantic, scientists and researchers joined others in the biopharmaceu…
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The Power of Partnership in Genomic Medicine
Leading minds were recently brought together from the biopharmaceutical industry to research organiz…
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Advancing Our Knowledge and Understanding of Cancer
After centuries without viable cancer treatments, scientists are more hopeful than ever before as th…
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