On Wednesday, Shares of Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE:MRK), gained 1.69% to $52.98.
Merck (MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, declared that the application for Emergency Use Assessment and Listing (EUAL) for the company’s investigational Ebola Zaire vaccine, V920 (rVSV∆G-ZEBOV-GP, live attenuated), has been accepted for review by the World Health Organization (WHO).
According to the WHO, the EUAL process is designed to expedite the availability of vaccines needed for public health emergencies such as another outbreak of Ebola. The procedure is intended to assist United Nations’ procurement agencies and Member States on the acceptability of using a vaccine candidate in an emergency-use setting. EUAL designation is not prequalification by WHO, but rather is a special procedure implemented when there is an outbreak of a disease with high rates of morbidity and/or mortality and a lack of treatment and/or prevention options. In such instances, WHO may recommend making a vaccine available for a limited time, while further clinical trial data are being gathered for formal regulatory agency review by a national regulatory authority.
“This application to the WHO is an important step toward enabling V920 to be used if a public health emergency of international concern were to be declared for the Ebola Zaire species before licensure of the vaccine candidate,” said Paula Annunziato, M.D., vice president for clinical research, Merck Research Laboratories.
Merck & Co., Inc. provides health care solutions worldwide. The company offer therapeutic and preventive agents to treat cardiovascular, type 2 diabetes, asthma, nasal allergy symptoms, allergic rhinitis, chronic hepatitis C virus, HIV-1 infection, fungal infections, intra-abdominal infections, hypertension, arthritis and pain, inflammatory, osteoporosis, male pattern hair loss, and fertility diseases.
Shares of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATVI), declined -0.94% to $38.84, during its last trading session.
After intense days of regional competitions worldwide, 30 teams from around the globe have successfully secured a coveted spot in the first ever Call of Duty™ World League (CWL) Pro Division presented by PlayStation®4. More than 800 professional Call of Duty™ eSports teams across North America, Europe, and Australia/New Zealand competed last week for the chance to join the premier Call of Duty eSports circuit. These teams will spend the coming year competing for more than $3 million in cash prizes playing Call of Duty®: Black Ops III, culminating with the Call of Duty Championship Presented by PlayStation 4 in the fall of 2016.
In the North American LAN qualifier, sixteen competed live for eight spots in the CWL Pro Division. The teams were seeded into four groups, with the top two performing teams from each group qualifying into the CWL Pro Division. Team EnVyUs was the only team worldwide to sweep every match, finishing with a perfect 6-0 record to lock in its Pro Division spot. Other North American CWL Pro Division qualifying teams comprise: OpTic Gaming, Apotheon Esports, Rise Nation, Team eLevate, Team Kaliber, FaZe Clan and compLexity Gaming.
Once the LAN qualifiers were complete, players from all over North America fought it out online in a week long tournament that comprised more than 460 teams. After hard fought matches, Counter Logic Gaming, Luminosity Gaming, Dream Team, and Question Mark all secured their spots as part of the first stage of the inaugural season.
Activision Blizzard, Inc. develops and publishes online, personal computer (PC), video game console, handheld, mobile, and tablet games worldwide. The company develops and publishes interactive entertainment software products through retail channels or digital downloads; and downloadable content to a range of gamers.
Finally, ARRIS Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:ARRS), ended its last trade with -0.68% loss, and closed at $29.41.
ARRIS Group, declared that the mandatory waiting period with respect to the formerly declared approval granted by Brazil’s competition authority CADE has expired. As a result, all merger control closing conditions worldwide have now been met. The formerly issued court order regarding the scheme of arrangement governing the acquisition of Pace plc will be delivered to the U.K. Registrar of Companies on January 4, 2016, and the combination will be accomplished the same day.
ARRIS Group, Inc. provides media entertainment and data communications solutions in the United States and internationally. The company operates in two segments, Customer Premises Equipment and Network & Cloud. The Customer Premises Equipment segment offers various product solutions, counting set-top boxes, gateways, digital subscriber lines and cable modems, and embedded multimedia terminal adapters and voice/data modems that enable service providers to offer voice, video, and high-speed data services to residential and business subscribers.
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