Among the hits: a Hepatitis B vaccine, a treatment for inter-cranial aneurysms and a bovine growth hormone.
Bharat Biotech sells a single dose of its hepatitis B vaccine for 20 cents and Bharti Airtel provides one of the cheapest wireless telephone services in the world.
Read said Pfizer's mid- to late-stage drug pipeline "continues to strengthen with key potential opportunities, " including drugs for advanced breast cancer and three other types of cancer, one for high cholesterol and a meningococcal B vaccine for adolescents and young adults.
But against a particular strain of Influenza B, the vaccine is proving completely ineffective.
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The vaccine against hepatitis B, a sexually transmitted disease, has been given to infants since 1991.
Hepatitis C has been described as an "approaching epidemic" - and unlike hepatitis A and B, there is no vaccine against it.
That's how we've made possible scientific research that has led to medical breakthroughs like the vaccine for Hepatitis B, and technological wonders like GPS. That's how we have Social Security and a minimum wage, and laws to protect the food we eat and the water we drink and the air that we breathe.
There are vaccines for other meningococcus strains, but a vaccine for the group B strains had been eluding microbiologists because their surface sugars are identical to human ones.
Biogen went on to create one of the first treatments for hepatitis C and the vaccine given for hepatitis B before becoming a dominant player in treating multiple sclerosis.
There are five separate types of "B" meningitis, and potentially a vaccine could be effective against all of them.
The district court granted judgment for Wyeth, holding that Section 22(b)(1) of the Vaccine Act expressly preempts all design defect claims arising from a vaccine-related injury.
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But work has already started to produce a vaccine based on just one single type of "B" meningitis.
GlaxoSmithkline sells a combo vaccine, Twinrix, that hits both A and B.
Cohen took the malaria surface protein used in Ballou's vaccine and fused it to a protein from the hepatitis B virus, creating a harmless particle that looked like a virus to the immune system.
The vaccine covers two subtypes of flu A and one of flu B, and these same are the same ones we are seeing in the population.
The Bexsero vaccine licensed by the European Commission is the first to cover meningococcal B meningitis - until now vaccines had protected against only some of the bacterial types involved.
In the United States, at least in the short term, "we definitely are 'Plan B' because we will need the emergency use authorization in order to sell our vaccine, " Adams said.
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Of the influenza B viruses tested between October 1 and January 5, 66.7% were the type represented in the vaccine.
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