infectious diseases

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A $140m fund launched by philanthropic group Coefficient Giving will try to find the first vaccine for Strep A, which kills 639,000 people a year.

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Around seven years after exiting the infectious disease category, Eli Lilly is back – thanks to a trio of acquisitions worth more than $3.8bn.

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At its second attempt, Gilead has won FDA approval for chronic hepatitis D virus drug Hepcludex, four years after it was cleared in the EU.

R&D

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Pfizer has upped the ante in the increasingly competitive market for pneumococcal vaccines with new data on a 25-valent candidate.

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The WHO has held a closed expert meeting to identify potential vaccines for the Bundibugyo species of Ebola and fast-track clinical trials.