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Doctors Told to Be Alert for Childhood Infections during Hib Vaccine Shortage
On Thursday, U.S. health officials urged doctors
to be more vigilant for suspected cases of...
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Autism Associated With Wet Weather
Children in U.S.’s wettest climates stand more chances to suffer from autism, according to a study...
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CDC: Merck’s Rotateq Lowered Cases of Rotavirus by 80 Percent since Approval
Rotateq, the vaccine against rotavirus, has reduced the number of illnesses by at least two-thirds...
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Gardasil Vaccination Rate Tops 25 Percent despite Initial Doubts
More girls in the United States are vaccinated with
Gardasil, the vaccine designed to prevent...
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1 in 4 US Teen Girls Received Merck’s HPV Vaccine
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday that only 25 percent of...
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German, French Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize for Virus Discoveries
Stockholm - The finding of cervical cancer virus and the discovery of the human immunodeficiency...
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Two Rival Biotech Companies Receive Approval to Develop Anthrax Vaccines
Emergent BioSolutions of Rockville and
PharmAthene of Annapolis received separate federal...
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Flu Season Is Almost Here, Get Vaccinated, CDC Recommends
In an attempt to reduce the number of people getting
influenza or dying from it, on Wednesday, the...
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Controversial Autism Study Canceled over “Unethical” Reasons
The National Institute of Mental Health decided to give up
on its study of a therapy called...
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Survivors of 1918 Flu Pandemic Still Immune
Although hard to believe antibodies from survivors of the most devastating 1918 influenza pandemic...
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FBI Reveals New Details in Anthrax Case
Bruce E. Ivins, the US scientist who killed himself amid an anthrax investigation, used two...
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FDA Makes This Year’s Flu Vaccines Public
As autumn is approaching, people should be ready to welcome
the flu season. And the best way to do...
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The AIDS Battle Continues! Researchers Join Efforts to Find a Vaccine
Around 33 million people had the AIDS virus in 2007. The majority lived in Sub-Saharan Africa,...
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AIDS Vaccine Trial Suspended
Plans for a large-scale human trial of a prospecting HIV
vaccine in the United States
were...
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Yellowstone Elks Under Suspicion of Disease Source
U.S.
federal officials are taking under consideration a tentative plan that requires
capturing or...
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"Green Our Vaccine" Takes Jim Carrey to a March
Wednesday, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy along with other
national autism advocacy groups...
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Manufacturers to Boost Number of Flu Vaccines for Next Season
Despite inefficiency of the flu vaccines this year in the U.S., the five
companies manufacturing...
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Sanofi-Aventis Teams up with Danish SSI to Develop New TB Vaccine
French drugs group Sanofi-Aventis announced on Thursday its intention to team up with Danish...
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ABC Defends "Eli Stone" Autism Episode
Pediatricians may be protesting that the first episode of ABC’s upcoming new legal drama...
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Autumn Babies More Likely To Develop Asthma
U.S. researchers concluded on Friday that babies that are born four months before the peak cold and...
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Vaccines Shortage For Hib May Lead To An Epidemic
Epidemics and pandemics are very hard to keep under control or be successfully quarantined. A...
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Doctors Should Be Alert During Hib Vaccine Shortage, CDC Says
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on
Thursday urged doctors and health agencies to...
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Bone Marrow Transplants May Cure HIV
HIV, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, is such a hardy
pathogen that the concept of curing a
poor...
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Update: Google Tool Tracks Flu Outbreaks Faster
Fever? Headache? Sore Throat? You might
find answers to all these symptoms through a new tool as...
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Google Will Keep Track Of Flu Searches
Google, through its philanthropic arm, Google.org, is trying to help U.S. authorities fight the flu...
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The Gates Foundation Plans to Fund 104 Researchers around the World
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
made public its intention to give 104 grants of $100...
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CDC Calls Merck’s Gardasil Safe
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
Immunization Safety Office on Wednesday...
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The Safety of Biological Products Questioned
A new study published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association
suggests that...
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Biological Drugs Not Necessarily Safe
Biological products have gained popularity in the recent
years but according to a study published...
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Hope for South Africa! “HIV Causes AIDS,” Health Minister Barbara Hogan States
This week, South Africa’s new Health Minister,
Barbara Hogan, said it was unquestionable that HIV...
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U.S. Vaccine Use Increased in 2007
In June 2006, Merck’s drug Gardasil was approved by the FDA.
Gardasil is a drug designed to...
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Report: 25 Percent Of US Teen Girls Got Cervical Cancer Vaccine In 2007
However controversial Merck’s cervical cancer vaccine
Gardasil has been considered since approval,...
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Nobel Prize in Medicine Ends Debate between American and French Researchers
The long-running debate between US researcher Robert
Gallo and French scientist Luc Montaginer...
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New TB vaccine offers hope for AIDS patients, German researchers say
Hamburg - An early tuberculosis vaccine dating back to the 1920s has been vastly improved thanks to...
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Study Finds Anthrax Vaccine Works In Fewer Doses
Giving fewer doses of the anthrax vaccine
could be just as effective, offering protection from the...
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Two Biotech Companies Are to Develop Anthrax Vaccines
Emergent BioSolutions of Rockville and PharmAthene of Annapolis are two biotech companies that have...
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PharmAthene And Emergent To Develop Anthrax Vaccine
PharmAthene Inc. announced Friday that it received a federal multi-year contract to fight anthrax....
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Lots Of Vaccines Available This Influenza Season
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has chosen Wednesday to be the official first day of...
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CDC Expands Recommendations for Influenza Shots
Wednesday,
health officials assembled in Washington D.C. endorsed the Centers for
Disease Control...
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Flu Vaccine Recommended For Children Of School Age
As the flu season approaches, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced yesterday...
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Health Officials Call Off Chelation Therapy Study For Autism
The National Institute of Mental Health
(NIHM) has called off plans for a study examining a...
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FBI Requests Scientific Review Of Controversial Anthrax Case
FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III said an
independent team of researchers and engineers from the...
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New York Pharmacists Allowed to Give Flu and Pneumonia Shots
New
York pharmacists who complete
state training and certification will be permitted to give...
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Do Measles Vaccines Put Children At Risk For Autism?
Scientists found that there is no link between the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, also known as MMR...
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Measles Vaccine Not Linked To Autism, Study Finds
According to a study published this week, the Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccine doesn’t raise the...
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Scientists Claim Measles Vaccines Are Safe, No Autism Link
Scientists with the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia...
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Childhood Vaccination Rates At Record Levels
The rate of U.S. children getting their recommended
vaccinations against childhood diseases has...
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Scientists Fail To Find MMR Vaccine - Autism Link
Scientists with the Mailman School of Public Health Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia...
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Flu Shots Have Been Overestimated
It appears that old people aren’t actually protected from
potentially deadly diseases such as...
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