Duke University’s Singapore medical school agreed to work with closely held Inviragen Inc. to develop a vaccine against dengue fever, joining Sanofi Aventis SA in the quest for a shot against the deadly virus.
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Edible vaccine for malaria on way
December 31st, 2010 |
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A spoonful of genetically modified starch could be a new malaria vaccine if a new strategy that seems to work in mice also performs well in humans. At present there is no efficient vaccine against malaria, which is caused by the plasmodium parasite. Now researchers from two laboratories in France have successfully vaccinated and protected [...]
Vaccines: A smarter jab
October 14th, 2010 |
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Big drugs companies see a bright future for vaccines
FOR decades vaccines were a neglected corner of the drugs business, with old technology, little investment and abysmal profit margins. Many firms sold their vaccine divisions to concentrate on more profitable drugs. This troubled public-health experts because vaccines are a highly effective way of dealing with diseases.
Happily, a renaissance is under way. Global vaccine sales vaulted from $8.9 billion in 2005 to $22.2 billion last year. Insurers and governments in the rich world have started to pay higher prices: firms making new vaccines against pneumococcal disease or the human papilloma virus are getting $100 or more per dose. Peter Hotez of the Sabin Vaccine Institute says there is more interest in making vaccines for the poor too, thanks to rich donors. …
India’s own H1N1 vaccine launched
June 4th, 2010 |
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Within one year of H1N1 virus surfacing in India, the country has launched indigenously made vaccine called Vaxi Flu-S to combat the virus. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has launched the vaccine on Thursday. The vaccine is manufactured by Zydus Cadila.
On this occasion, the minister said, “Post-Independence, this is the first influenza vaccine [...]
Now a vaccine to prevent breast cancer
May 31st, 2010 |
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Trial on mice has shown that a vaccine to prevent breast cancer is a possibility. American scientists have successfully experimented that the vaccine can save mice from developing breast cancer in them.
Now they plan to conduct trials on human also. However, it may take many years before any such vaccine is available for its [...]
Imported swine flu vaccine will reach India in February
January 20th, 2010 |
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Imported swine flu vaccine will finally be available in India by the third week of February but these vials are mainly for the high-risk group of medical practitioners. The indigenously developed vaccine will not be available before April, officials said here Tuesday.
“The French pharma company Sanofi Pasteur is at least 15 days ahead of others. [...]
Some experts want people vaccinated twice
December 30th, 2009 |
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Members of a swine flu working group have voiced different views on whether some citizens should receive the anti-virus vaccine twice. Epidemiologists Vladimir Petrović and Goranka LonÄarević reccomend that persons over 60 years of age and children youger than nine should receive a double dose of the vaccine, Belgrade daily Danas writes.
“Public figures” to get first swine flu shots
December 14th, 2009 |
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Vaccination against swine flu is set to start in Montenegro after the first shipment containing 15,000 units of the vaccine arrived on Sunday. According to earlier announcements, public figures will be inoculated first “in order to convince the public about the safety of the A/H1N1 vaccine”.
Vaccine to arrive in hospitals soon
December 5th, 2009 |
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The swine flu vaccine could be distributed to hospitals and health centers before the Medicines Agency finishes its analysis of the vaccine, daily Blic writes. Initially, it was planned for the vaccine to remain locked in refrigerators in quarantine conditions until a certificate is given by the Agency, which would occur some time around December 17.
Swine flu vaccine arrives in Serbia
November 29th, 2009 |
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The fist dosages of the swine flu vaccine have arrived in Serbia. Vaccination will begin in two weeks, once the vaccine has been tested.
“Irresponsible doctors confusing peopleâ€
November 15th, 2009 |
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Health Minister Tomica Milosavljević said that irresponsible doctors who doubt the effectiveness of the vaccine are “confusing the people.â€
He said that “all vaccines that have passed European control are good,†adding that “every vaccine against the flu is made with technology that is strictly controlled, cleaned and completely harmonized with the standards which are always high in the pharmaceutics industry.â€
Serbia buying Focetria vaccine
November 14th, 2009 |
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President of the commission for buying the swine flu vaccine, Branislav Tiodorović, said that Serbia will buy three million doses of the Focetria vaccine.
He said that citizens with weaker immune systems and people receiving chemotherapy will be vaccinated twice, while healthier citizens will only receive one vaccination.
Two die in China after swine flu vaccine
November 14th, 2009 |
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Two people died after they were innoculated with the swine flu vaccine in China, health authorities reported, amid wariness among the Chinese about the quality of the shot. Deng Haihua, spokesman for the health ministry, said in a statement posted on the website late Friday that authorities
Only Novartis with complete tender documentation
November 9th, 2009 |
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Three bidders responded to the government tender for the purchase of the new flu vaccine, but only submitted all necessary documentation.
After looking at the opening of bids the commission in charge choosing who the vaccine would be bought from stated that no one but Novartis submitted the full legal documentation.
Down with the flu
October 16th, 2009 |
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Two different viruses will lay millions low this winter
IT HAS taken seven months for the vaccine intended to protect people from the potentially deadly H1N1 strain of influenza to start trickling onto pharmacy shelves. The first doses are now being made available in America. Supplies will remain limited for months to come. In the meantime, the vaccine—both the killed version that is injected and the attenuated live version that is given as a nasal spray—is being rationed to those reckoned most in need.
That means children, pregnant women, nursing staff and those who could easily infect other vulnerable groups—especially infants and people with weakened immune systems. Strangely, the new H1N1 strain of virus does not strike the elderly anything like as much as seasonal flu does. This relative immunity—the opposite of what normally happens each winter—suggests that they may have been exposed to something similar in the past. …
About 100 poorer nations to get donated swine flu vaccine: WHO
October 12th, 2009 |
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About 100 developing countries will receive international donations of swine flu vaccines, maybe as soon as November, a World Health Organisation official said Monday. “The director general of WHO will approve most likely today a list of countries for the donations,” said Marie-Paule Kieny, who
New vaccine shows promise in preventing AIDS
October 9th, 2009 |
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In a breakthrough, researchers have for the first time have found a vaccine that cuts HIV infection by more than 31 per cent, giving fresh boost to the global fight against the dreaded disease.
The experimental drug cuts the risk of HIV infection by a third in the world’s largest AIDS trial of more than [...]
Britain, France get first batches of swine flu vaccine
August 28th, 2009 |
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Britain and France have received their first batches of swine flu vaccine, officials said Thursday. The World Health Organization has been warning governments for months to brace for a resurgence of the A(H1N1) virus when the cold season hits the northern hemisphere.
While Swine Flu Vaccine Has Been Declared “Safe”, Novel Adjuvants Will Be Used Before Any Meaningful Testing has been Conducted
August 25th, 2009 |
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Dr. Meryl Nass is an expert on vaccines.Over the years, I have found Dr. Nass to be reasonable, balanced and well grounded in science in her discussions about the anthrax attacks and the criminal investigations into Dr. Hatfield and Dr. Ivins. So I …
Sanofi starts swine flu shot trial
August 7th, 2009 |
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Sanofi-Aventis, the world leader in flu immunisation, said on Friday it started human testing of its H1N1 swine flu vaccine on August 6 and filed a supplemental licence application with US regulators. The French drugmaker’s vaccine unit Sanofi Pasteur had told Reuters on Tuesday tests would