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CDC Panel Backs Heplisav-B Use, May Consider Preferential Recommendation

 
• By Brenda Sandburg

Dynavax's hepatitis B vaccine could end up as preferred choice for certain groups once safety and cost-effectiveness studies are completed.

Sterile bottles and ampoules on the dispensing line.Sealed ampoules with medicine.Sterile capsules for injection. Bottles on the bottling line of the pharmaceutical plant.

Dynavax Technologies Corp.'s Heplisav-B got a vote of support from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's advisory committee. But more significantly, the panel left the door open to a future recommendation endorsing Heplisav-B over other hepatitis B vaccines.

At its Feb. 21 meeting, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 14-0 that "Heplisav-B is a hepatitis B...

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