GSK Announces AREXVY, Its Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine, Is Now Available at All Major US Retail Pharmacies
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GSK plc (LSE/NYSE: GSK) today announced that AREXVY (Respiratory Syncytial Virus Vaccine, Adjuvanted) is now available in the US at all major retail pharmacies. In June, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended that persons 60 years of age and older may receive a single dose of RSV vaccine, using shared clinical decision making. Shared clinical decision making empowers patients, in consultation with their healthcare providers, to decide whether RSV vaccination is appropriate for them. AREXVY is indicated for the prevention of RSV-lower respiratory tract disease (LRTD) in individuals aged 60 years and older.
A scholar of Roman Catholicism explains why Pope Francis' visit to Mongolia, home to fewer than 1,500 Catholics, is significant.
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WWE is flexing its branding muscle, selling more than 90,000 tickets to next year’s WrestleMania about eight months before the premium live event is held and before a single match has been announced. Tickets for WrestleMania 40, which will take place in Philadelphia on April 6 and April 7, 2024, went on sale on Friday. In one day, ticket sales for WrestleMania 40 topped the all-time total gross record of $21.6 million set by this year’s WrestleMania 39.
Still haven’t seen “Barbie” or “Oppenheimer”? This Sunday, you’ll be able to catch up for $4 a ticket in movie theaters nationwide. Theater owners announced Monday that the second annual National Cinema Day will be held Sunday, Aug. 27. For one day, all movies — in all formats and at all showtimes — will be $4 at participating theaters. More than 3,000 theaters are participating, which accounts for most of the cinemas in the U.S., including the leading chains AMC and Regal. Last year’s inaugural National Cinema Day was judged an enormous success. An estimated 8.1 million moviegoers bought $3 tickets on Saturday, Sept. 3, making it the highest attended day of the year in cinemas.
A decade after a sarin gas attack killed hundreds and left thousands hurt in a Syrian suburb near the capital of Damascus, survivors say there has been no accountability for that attack or for other atrocities committed during the country's brutal conflict. Syrian President Bashar Assad's government — though accused by the United Nations of repeated chemical weapons attacks on Syrian civilians — has been able to break out of its political isolation over the past year. Assad was welcomed back to the Arab League after it suspended Syria’s membership in 2011, following a crackdown on anti-government protests.
Bahamas has never sent its men’s basketball team to the Olympics. The island nation is one step closer to changing that. Eric Gordon scored 27 points, Buddy Hield added 17 and Bahamas stunned Argentina 82-75 to win one of the five Olympic pre-qualifying tournaments that were wrapping up around the world Sunday. The win sends Bahamas into another Olympic qualifying tournament in July 2024, one that will bring with it a chance to qualify for next summer’s Paris Games. Other pre-qualifying tournament winners Sunday included Cameroon, Bahrain, Croatia and Poland.
The man who leads the Spanish soccer federation took some unwanted attention away from the celebrating players moments after Spain won the Women's World Cup. Criticism from the Spanish government and the soccer world rained down on Luis Rubiales for his conduct while reveling in Spain’s 1-0 win over England in Sunday’s final in Australia. Rubiales grabbed his crotch in a victory gesture while standing close to 16-year-old Princess Infanta Sofía. He then kissed Spain player Jenni Hermoso on the lips during the medal and trophy ceremony on the field. Players’ union FIFPRO says the kiss was “deeply lamentable.”
London police say they will take no action on allegations that people associated with one of King Charles III’s charities offered to help a Saudi billionaire secure a knighthood and British citizenship in return for donations. The Metropolitan Police Service began an investigation into the matter after the Times of London reported that a longtime aide to Charles had suggested the then-Prince of Wales would support a Saudi citizen’s request for the honors in return for up to 1.5 million pounds ($2 million) in donations to the charity, The Prince’s Foundation. The department said Monday it reviewed documents provided by the foundation and the newspaper, and consulted with prosecutors before concluding its investigation.
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When President Joe Biden has questions about artificial intelligence, one expert he turns to is his science adviser Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Prabhakar is helping to guide the U.S. approach to safeguarding AI technology, relying in part on cooperation from big American tech firms like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta. Prabhakar says the tech giants' voluntary commitments are a start, but that more action is needed. She spoke to The Associated Press earlier this month ahead of a White House-coordinated testing of AI systems at the DefCon hacker conference in Las Vegas.
Former neonatal nurse given a whole-life prison sentence for killing 7 babies and trying to kill 6 others at UK hospital.
A new car that costs under $20,000, once an unofficial threshold of affordability, is all but history in the United States. Blame it on automakers abandoning the low-profit small-car business as American consumers increasingly gravitate toward pricier SUVs and trucks. The compact Mitsubishi Mirage has become the last new vehicle with an average selling price under $20,000. And even the Mirage appears on the way out. The trade publication Automotive News has reported that Mitsubishi will stop selling the Mirage by the middle of this decade. Here are the five new vehicles with the lowest average selling prices in the United States, according to Cox Automotive.
Syrian opposition activists say protests have broken out in two government-held provinces in the south amid widespread anger over increasing prices, the crash of the Syrian pound and the dwindling purchasing power of many people in the war-torn country. The rare protests are still limited to the southern province of Sweida and Daraa and are far from government strongholds along the Mediterranean coast, the capital Damascus and the largest cities, including Aleppo and Homs. The protests come a week after Syrian President Bashar Assad issued two decrees doubling public sector wages and pensions, sparking inflation and compounding economic woes for others.
Women's World Cup teams head home to different futures
Major wildfires are burning in Greece and on Spain’s Canary Island of Tenerife off the northwest coast of Africa. Hot, dry and windy conditions are hampering the efforts of hundreds of firefighters battling the blazes, two of which have been burning for several days. In Greece, the body of a man was recovered from an area where two villages were being evacuated after a wildfire broke out Monday morning, while a major blaze was burning for the third day in the northeast of the country near the border with Turkey. In Spain's Tenerife, a fire that police said was set deliberately last Tuesday continued to burn out of control.
In a historic decision, Ecuadorians voted on Sunday against the oil drilling of a protected area in the Amazon, which is home to two uncontacted tribes and serves as a biodiversity hotspot. With over 90% of the ballots counted, around six in ten Ecuadorians rejected the oil exploration in Block 44, situated within Yasuni National Park, one of the world’s most biodiverse regions.
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QUEENSLAND, Australia, Aug. 21, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Emerging author Dewalt du Plessis introduces readers to his mesmerizing imagination and world-building skills in his debut novel, “Ash Moonlight” (ISBN: 978-0228886617; July, 2022). Originally conceived as song lyrics, “Ash Moonlig…
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are traveling to Maui to comfort survivors of the devastating wildfires that ripped through the western part of the Hawaiian island earlier this month. The Bidens are taking a detour from their weeklong vacation in the Lake Tahoe area for the Monday trip to the historic town of Lahaina. The Bidens will view the damaged town, both from helicopters and on the ground. The Democratic president will deliver remarks paying tribute to the victims of the wildfires, which have killed more than 100 people since they began on Aug. 8.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 21, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Mobility Market Intelligence (MMI), a leader in data intelligence and market insight tools for the mortgage and real estate industries, announced that Heidi Iverson has been promoted to Vice President of Strategic Partnerships. In t…
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, Aug. 21, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — A fantastical story set in a world where paladins are heroes and the champions of the gods finds itself in the shadow of a looming threat. Their only choice? To rely on the services of an uneducated, incapable and stubborn palad…
Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank is purchasing one of six teams in Tiger Woods’ new high-tech TGL golf league scheduled to launch in January. Blank also owns MLS Atlanta United and the PGA TOUR Superstore. He said he was drawn to the golf league’s potential to attract new fans with its interaction of tech and live action in a prime-time weekly format. Woods, Rory McIlroy and former Golf Channel president Mike McCarley founded the league which will have six teams and 18 players. Teams in Los Angeles and Boston previously were unveiled. The PGA Tour has partnered with the TGL.
Germany’s central bank anticipates that the country’s economy, Europe’s biggest, will be more or less stagnant again in the current quarter. German gross domestic product stagnated in the second quarter after declining in both of the two previous quarters as the country struggled with high energy prices, rising borrowing costs and weakness in China, which has been a key trading partner. The International Monetary Fund forecast last month that Germany would be the globe’s only major economy to shrink this year. A monthly report Monday from the Bundesbank, Germany’s central bank, indicated that the picture isn’t about to improve. It wrote that “in the third quarter of 2023, German economic output will probably remain largely unchanged again.”
WOKING, U.K., Aug. 21, 2023 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Aiming to make text to speech technology available to everyone, Narakeet today unveiled a way to seamlessly convert video subtitles into audio using state-of-the-art text to speech AI. This innovative solution emerges in response to the inc…
Thailand’s populist Pheu Thai party says it plans to form a new government with an 11-party coalition that includes two pro-military parties affiliated with outgoing Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha. Parliament is expected to confirm the country’s 30th prime minister on Tuesday after a three-month stalemate following elections in May. Pheu Thai has been heavily criticized by some of its supporters for backtracking on a pre-election pledge not to join hands with pro-military parties. It defended the decision, saying it was necessary to break the political deadlock and seek reconciliation after decades of deep divisions.
Women's World Cup teams head home to different futures
UNDATED (AP) — Welcome to the final season of college football as we know it. That might sound extreme, but 2023 has an end-of-an-era feel. Texas and Oklahoma are taking their last lap in the Big 12. The Pac-12 is still a Power Five conference. Will it even be a conference in 2024? The Colle…
UNDATED (AP) — Welcome to the final season of college football as we know it. That might sound extreme, but 2023 has an end-of-an-era feel. Texas and Oklahoma are taking their last lap in the Big 12. The Pac-12 is still a Power Five conference. Will it even be a conference in 2024? The Colle…
UNDATED (AP) — Welcome to the final season of college football as we know it. That might sound extreme, but 2023 has an end-of-an-era feel. Texas and Oklahoma are taking their last lap in the Big 12. The Pac-12 is still a Power Five conference. Will it even be a conference in 2024? The Colle…
UNDATED (AP) — Welcome to the final season of college football as we know it. That might sound extreme, but 2023 has an end-of-an-era feel. Texas and Oklahoma are taking their last lap in the Big 12. The Pac-12 is still a Power Five conference. Will it even be a conference in 2024? The Colle…
The Clinton Global Initiative 2023 will convene “leaders, innovators and dreamers” – ranging from World Bank President Ajay Banga and The Bahamas’ Prime Minister Philip E. Davis to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres and Ford Foundation CEO Darren Walker, as well as A-list actors Orlando Bloom, Matt Damon, and Ashley Judd – in New York on Sept. 18 and 19 to keep up the momentum addressing global issues generated by the conference when it returned last year after a six-year hiatus. Former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and Clinton Foundation Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton announced Monday that the conference would seek more commitments addressing climate change, health care, the war in Ukraine and other issues.
The first thing "House of the Dragon" visual effects supervisor Angus Bickerton discussed with showrunners Miguel Sapochnik and Ryan Condal was — surprise — the dragons. The show's predecessor, "Game of Thrones," set new standards for the photoreal monsters; it won seven visual-effects Emmys…
LOS ANGELES — On paper, Jack and Tere Assadourian seem an unlikely couple to run an L.A. comedy club. They're immigrants — an Armenian man from Lebanon who grew up selling handbags and managed restaurants after moving to the U.S. and a woman from Mexico City who never set foot inside a comed…
A disappointing entry given the talented cast with which it is blessed, “Back on the Strip” was directed by the seasoned actor and comedy writer Chris Spencer, whose directing credits include TV’s “Real Husbands of Hollywood” and “Uncensored.” The film is essentially the tale of a young, asp…
DENVER — Ben Roy feels the heat from all sides.
TAMPA, Fla. — Late last Tuesday, elbow-deep in a mess of hot pink fringe he was wrestling into a concert outfit, Cam Parker received a cryptic text message.
A judge is set to sentence Lucy Letby, the most prolific child killer in modern U.K. history, for murdering seven babies and attempting to kill six others while working as a neonatal nurse at a hospital in northern England. Justice James Goss on Monday could level the most severe sentence possible under British law by imposing multiple life terms to ensure that Letby will spend the rest of her life behind bars. Following 22 days of deliberations, a jury at Manchester Crown Court convicted the 33-year-old of killing the babies over a yearlong period that saw her prey on the vulnerabilities of sick newborns and their anxious parents.
