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Health

CDC Adds Glaxo’s Rotavirus Vaccine After Merck’s Proves Efficient

CDC Adds Glaxo’s Rotavirus Vaccine After Merck’s Proves Efficient

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday recommended...
» read full story June 26th, 2008 - 10:26
FDA Approves GlaxoSmithKline Combination Vaccine

FDA Approves GlaxoSmithKline Combination Vaccine

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a four-in-one vaccine by GlaxoSmithKline. The...
» read full story June 25th, 2008 - 22:25
CDC Head Warns of Complacency and Bird Flu

CDC Head Warns of Complacency and Bird Flu

Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned at a...
» read full story June 22nd, 2008 - 18:45
Researchers Announce New Bird Flu Vaccine

Researchers Announce New Bird Flu Vaccine

Researchers have announced in this week's New England Journal of Medicine the development of a new...
» read full story June 12th, 2008 - 23:29
Baxter’s New Bird Flu Vaccine May Be Best Choice

Baxter’s New Bird Flu Vaccine May Be Best Choice

Bird flu virus is closer than ever to finding its enemy, as the first experimental bird flu...
» read full story June 12th, 2008 - 13:35
Seven Measles Cases Spotted in DuPage County

Seven Measles Cases Spotted in DuPage County

The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed seven cases of measles in DuPage County,...
» read full story June 01st, 2008 - 09:23
Children Healthcare Varies Greatly by State

Children Healthcare Varies Greatly by State

The Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation that seeks to promote better health care for all...
» read full story May 28th, 2008 - 23:14
Glaxo’s Bird Flu Vaccine Prepandrix Gets EU Clearance

Glaxo’s Bird Flu Vaccine Prepandrix Gets EU Clearance

GlaxoSmithKline Plc. has received the European Union approval for the world’s first wide-spectrum...
» read full story May 19th, 2008 - 10:46
Court Hears More Claims Linking Thimesoral in Vaccines to Autism

Court Hears More Claims Linking Thimesoral in Vaccines to Autism

The parents of two 10-year-old boys who believe that a mercury-based preservative, thimesoral,...
» read full story May 13th, 2008 - 13:38
Flu Shot Manufacturers Plan More Doses for Next Season

Flu Shot Manufacturers Plan More Doses for Next Season

Although this year’s vaccine against flu was largely ineffective, the five companies manufacturing...
» read full story May 11th, 2008 - 19:51
WHO: ‘Threat of a Pandemic Influenza Has Not Diminished’

WHO: ‘Threat of a Pandemic Influenza Has Not Diminished’

During a conference held in Geneva on May 6, World Health Organization experts warned on the...
» read full story May 08th, 2008 - 16:37
Novartis Reports Promising Results of  Meningitis Vaccine Trial

Novartis Reports Promising Results of Meningitis Vaccine Trial

Novartis AG’s experimental vaccine Menveo appeared to generate more potent immunity against four...
» read full story May 07th, 2008 - 11:03
Scientists' Perfect Way to Rapidly Generate Human Antibodies

Scientists' Perfect Way to Rapidly Generate Human Antibodies

Scientists have perfected a way to generate protein sentinels of the immune system, known as...
» read full story May 01st, 2008 - 11:21
CDC: A Quarter of US Kids Don’t Meet Vaccination Guidelines

CDC: A Quarter of US Kids Don’t Meet Vaccination Guidelines

New research by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that about a quarter...
» read full story April 29th, 2008 - 16:41
Study Blames Failure of Mumps Vaccines for the 2006 Outbreak

Study Blames Failure of Mumps Vaccines for the 2006 Outbreak

The large mumps outbreak in the United States in 2006 was the first ever caused by the failure of...
» read full story April 10th, 2008 - 10:43
Premiere: Vaccine for Deadly Ebola to Be Tested on People

Premiere: Vaccine for Deadly Ebola to Be Tested on People

U.S. and Canadian researchers might have finally discovered a vaccine against one of the world’s...
» read full story April 01st, 2008 - 12:56
New York Campuses on High Alert over Bacterial Meningitis

New York Campuses on High Alert over Bacterial Meningitis

Two New York campuses are on high alert after three cases of three cases of possible bacterial...
» read full story March 17th, 2008 - 15:07
Loras College Students Asked to Seek Treatment against Meningitis

Loras College Students Asked to Seek Treatment against Meningitis

The death of a Loras College student in Dubuque has brought people attention to bacterial...
» read full story March 07th, 2008 - 17:42
Controversy Veils Court’s Ruling in Autism Case

Controversy Veils Court’s Ruling in Autism Case

You can always say “This is impossible” until it happens to you. The parents of a...
» read full story March 07th, 2008 - 13:36
Vaccine Contributed to Girl's Autism Symptoms

Vaccine Contributed to Girl's Autism Symptoms

Federal health officials have concluded that childhood vaccines contributed to symptoms of the...
» read full story March 06th, 2008 - 19:10
Do Good: Contract Malaria, Receive a Paycheck

Do Good: Contract Malaria, Receive a Paycheck

The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute needs volunteers to be bitten by a malaria-carrying...
» read full story March 06th, 2008 - 17:04
Vaccines against Malaria to Be Tested on Volunteers

Vaccines against Malaria to Be Tested on Volunteers

The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute will pay volunteers as much as $4,000 to be bitten by...
» read full story March 06th, 2008 - 12:44
Sen. McCain Revives Vaccine-Autism Myth

Sen. McCain Revives Vaccine-Autism Myth

Senator John McCain, while campaigning in Texas, recently said that "It’s indisputable that...
» read full story March 04th, 2008 - 21:41
Yellow Fever Outbreaks In Paraguay, 7 Deaths Confirmed

Yellow Fever Outbreaks In Paraguay, 7 Deaths Confirmed

Paraguay is facing the first yellow fever outbreak after more than three decades, since 1974, and...
» read full story February 19th, 2008 - 15:52
CDC: As Viruses Mutate, Flu Vaccine Becomes Inefficient

CDC: As Viruses Mutate, Flu Vaccine Becomes Inefficient

The World Health Organizations issued a warning about the necessity of adapting next year’s...
» read full story February 16th, 2008 - 10:27
A Needle-Free Flu Vaccine for the Squeamish

A Needle-Free Flu Vaccine for the Squeamish

Patients afraid of flu shots, young or old, may soon be spared the nervousness of another prick as...
» read full story January 29th, 2008 - 11:12
CDC Warns of Very Low Adult Vaccination Levels

CDC Warns of Very Low Adult Vaccination Levels

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that only about 2 percent of adults...
» read full story January 23rd, 2008 - 21:47
Dread of Yellow Fever in Brazil

Dread of Yellow Fever in Brazil

Several deaths caused by yellow fever have prompted millions of Brazilians to line up at hospitals...
» read full story January 16th, 2008 - 10:34
French Officials Choose Merck’s Gardasil Over GSK’s Cervarix

French Officials Choose Merck’s Gardasil Over GSK’s Cervarix

The French health officials made an announcement on Monday that they supported the use of Gardasil...
» read full story January 15th, 2008 - 11:09
Genetic Defect Linked to Autism, Researchers Say

Genetic Defect Linked to Autism, Researchers Say

Researchers have discovered a genetic defect responsible for 1 percent of the various forms of...
» read full story January 10th, 2008 - 11:53
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Specials

"Green Our Vaccine" Takes Jim Carrey to a March

"Green Our Vaccine" Takes Jim Carrey to a March

Wednesday, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy along with other national autism advocacy groups...
» read full story June 05th, 2008 - 13:44
Manufacturers to Boost Number of Flu Vaccines for Next Season

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...
» read full story May 12th, 2008 - 11:12
Sanofi-Aventis Teams up with Danish SSI to Develop New TB Vaccine

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...
» read full story February 14th, 2008 - 09:24
ABC Defends "Eli Stone" Autism Episode

ABC Defends "Eli Stone" Autism Episode

Pediatricians may be protesting that the first episode of ABC’s upcoming new legal drama...
» read full story January 29th, 2008 - 12:52
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Science

Scientists Report A New Method To Create Human Antibodies

Scientists Report A New Method To Create Human Antibodies

The U.S researchers have discovered a new technology to identify and clone human antibodies...
» read full story May 01st, 2008 - 16:08
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Business

GSK’s Shares Up on EU Permission to Sell Bird-Flu Vaccine

GSK’s Shares Up on EU Permission to Sell Bird-Flu Vaccine

GlaxoSmithKline, the United Kingdom-based pharmaceutical, biological, and healthcare company,...
» read full story May 19th, 2008 - 21:51
Merck Offers 4.85 Billion Dollars To Settle Vioxx Cases

Merck Offers 4.85 Billion Dollars To Settle Vioxx Cases

The US drug maker Merck & Co announced on Friday it will pay 4,85 billion dollars to settle...
» read full story November 10th, 2007 - 14:26
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World

CDC: US Faces Biggest Measles Outbreak in Seven Years

CDC: US Faces Biggest Measles Outbreak in Seven Years

The U.S. faces the biggest measles outbreak in seven years, the federal Centers for Disease...
» read full story May 02nd, 2008 - 14:36
EU Permits UK to Resume Meat Exports

EU Permits UK to Resume Meat Exports

The United Kingdom can resume exports of meat and dairy products to other countries after the...
» read full story August 23rd, 2007 - 15:44
EU to Reappraise Ban on British Meat Exports

EU to Reappraise Ban on British Meat Exports

After Britain eased restrictions on livestock movement, the European Commission is expected to...
» read full story August 21st, 2007 - 18:51
New Foot-and-Mouth Case Confirmed in Britain

New Foot-and-Mouth Case Confirmed in Britain

British authorities said on Tuesday that tests confirmed the existence of a second foot-and-mouth...
» read full story August 07th, 2007 - 13:15
Outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Linked to Laboratory

Outbreak of Foot-and-Mouth Linked to Laboratory

The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Surrey, Britain could be linked to a laboratory located...
» read full story August 05th, 2007 - 14:03
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