Pfizer’s Prevnar 13 Wins Panel Backing for Older Adults
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Pfizer Inc.’s Prevnar 13 vaccine for a bacterial infection that causes pneumonia won the backing of a U.S. advisory panel today for use in adults 50 and older, a population that may add almost $2 billion to sales in 2015.
Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration at a meeting today in Silver Spring, Maryland voted 14-1 that the shot was safe and effective for adults in producing an immune response against the pneumococcal bacteria. The FDA doesn’t have to follow the panel’s recommendations.