WPP’s consumer & HCP performance media powerhouse CMI Media unveiled an extensive rebranding and solution offering in response to vast changes in the healthcare landscape, the agency’s accelerated growth and expanding market possibilities.

Omnicom Health Group, the largest healthcare marketing and communications network in the world, announced the appointment of Tom Edwards to Chief Digital Officer. 

Gilead Sciences inked a collaboration, option and license deal with Gritstone Oncology to create a vaccine-based immunotherapy as a cure for HIV.

Moderna Inc. asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for permission to fill the company’s Covid-19 vaccine vials with up to five additional doses to ease a crunch in manufacturing, CNBC reported.

Swiss drugmaker Novartis signed an initial agreement to provide manufacturing capacity for Pfizer and BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, a move aimed at helping boost production as supplies fall shy of demand.

BeiGene announced topline data for tislelizumab for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC), the anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody’s fourth positive Phase III trial.

Novavax

Novavax Inc. said the company’s coronavirus vaccine was 89.3% effective in preventing Covid-19 in a trial conducted in the United Kingdom, and was nearly as effective in protecting against the more highly contagious variant first discovered in the UK, according to a preliminary analysis.

As a preview of discussions planned for the October 28-29, 2021 Galien Forum, the Galien Foundation is hosting a webinar series that will explore the game-changing role that Digital Technologies – including Artificial Intelligence (AI) – play in today’s clinical trials, with a focus on the development of the COVID-19 vaccines.

A special fund for vaccine research that was set aside by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2010 has been misused to pay for unrelated expenses, a government report shows.

U.S. President Joe Biden will reopen the nation’s online health insurance marketplace for people who cannot obtain coverage through their employers, the White House said.