Vaccines - from Concept to Clinic: A Guide to the Development and Clinical Testing of Vaccines for Human Use
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dutch authorities say they have banned use of a batch of Pfizer's Prevenar, or Prevnar, after three infants died within two weeks of receiving the anti-infection vaccination. "On average about 5 to 10 deaths are reported annually after babies get vaccines," said a spokeswoman for the Dutch health institute RIVM.' Read more...
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | yesterday
A storm has erupted over the announcement last month that an experimental AIDS vaccine tested in Thailand proved modestly effective. It was billed as a major scientific advance — the long-awaited hard evidence that it is possible to inoculate people against AIDS. But now the trial has been called into question in a way that is overblown and possibly destructive. But this isn’t the first...
Health Care (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Vaccines are the only effective means you will have to protect yourself, your family and your co-workers from potential death from the H1N1 Swine Flu virus. When both the World Health Organization (WHO) and The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) put out a World-wide alert that this disease is serious ...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Vaccines for seasonal flu are in short supply because production has dropped amid high demand for the H1N1 swine flu vaccine, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said Saturday. Domestic drug makers are expected to supply enough vaccine for the seasonal flu to treat about 45.04 million adults, or 80 percent of last year's total, the ministry said.
ROK Drop (Free subscription) | yesterday
Those of you stationed in Korea who haven’t had a swine flu shot yet it is now available: U.S. Forces Korea personnel have begun receiving H1NI flu vaccinations, with the goal of immunizing all military and Department of Defense civilians by Thanksgiving.The first shipment of the 54,000 vaccines arrived this week, and the [...]
Sports - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
An investigation was under way Friday into allegations Toronto Maple Leafs hockey players got preferential treatment in receiving H1N1 flu vaccines....
Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dutch authorities say they have banned use of a batch of Prevnar, which Pfizer acquired as part of its purchase of Wyeth, after three infants died within two weeks of receiving the anti-infection vaccination, Reuters reports. “On average about 5 to 10 deaths are reported annually after babies get vaccines,” a spokeswoman for the Dutch [...]
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
Many countries have introduced vaccinations to help combat the spread of H1N1, or swine flu. As the sickness toll increases, so does the buzz online.
Circle of 13 (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Adjuvants Explained In order for a vaccine to be considered effective, your immune response to the vaccine should be to produce antibodies to the live or dead viruses in the vaccine (the antigen). An adjuvant is a substance added to a vaccine to improve your immune response to the antigen. The word comes from the Latin adjuvare, which means "to help." By adding adjuvants the vaccine can...
the Crallspace (Free subscription) | yesterday
Are you one of the many, many people I saw standing in line for an H1N1 flu shot outside Lincoln school yesterday? You're gonna let someone shoot a new, untested, potentially unsafe concoction of formaldehyde, MSG, Mercury and other bizarre chemicals into your bloodstream to avoid a few days of being sick? Did you already forget the amount of people notified by the Corvallis Clinic that their previous...
subrealism (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kyiv Post | "In an effort to stop the global spread of pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, the United States is planning to donate 10 percent of US domestic H1N1 vaccine supply, as it becomes available, to a WHO-led H1N1 vaccine initiative. The US donation to WHO, equivalent to 25 million doses of vaccine, would be valued commercially at approximately $10 million," the embassy said in a statement....
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Trish Regan (CNBC) reports that while people across the nation wait for Swine Flu vaccines, some Wall Street firms have received theirs.
News: Opinion -- KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
During the Bush administration, the Democrats seized on the shortage of the flu vaccine to accuse the administration of being unable to protect Americans — from either illness or terrorism. “If you can’t get flu vaccines to Americans, how are...
MedBlog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Free H1N1 vaccines will be available on Saturday at four sites in Houston. There are 4,000 available doses — all nasal spray vaccine, which is recommended for healthy, nonpregnant people ages 2 to 49. At 8 a.m., the Houston health...
KHQA - Local News (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Hundreds wait for H1N1 vaccinations at the Quincy Civic Center.
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