Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report 19 January 2011 During the WHO’s executive board meeting Monday, WHO Director-General Margaret Chan expressed concerns over what she called a “‘worrisome’ public mistrust of vaccines, following signs of a tail-off in flu vaccination,” Agence France-Presse reports (1/18). Noting that some countries continue to report cases of H1N1 (swine […]
Flu Vaccine: Infant Febrile Seizures
But FDA Says Early Reports of Seizures Does Not Mean Vaccine is Unsafe By Daniel J. DeNoon, WebMD Health News Jan. 20, 2011 — The FDA and CDC are investigating reports linking febrile seizure in infants to the Sanofi Fluzone flu vaccine. The reports come from the FDA/CDC Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). It’s […]
Swine flu vaccines go waste in Pakistan
sify news 22 January 2011 Islamabad, Jan 22 (IANS) District health officials in Pakistan are ‘not very keen’ to use swine flu vaccines donated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), thus resulting in the country’s failure to control the disease, the WHO has said. In March 2010, about 3.1 million doses of Monovalent Influenza vaccine […]
January 13, 2011 FDA Approval Letter – Cervarix
Our STN: BL 125259/112 GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals Attention: Matthew Whitman 2301 Renaissance Boulevard P.O. Box 61540 King of Prussia, PA 19406-2772 Dear Mr. Whitman: We have approved your request to supplement your biologics license application for Human Papillomavirus Bivalent (Types 16 and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant, to include a Patient Package Insert to the full prescribing information. […]
Let’s Not Pay Twice For Government-Led Drug Discovery
By GoozNews 23 January 2011 One of the more intriguing historical anecdotes included in “The $800 Million Pill,” my history of government-led drug discovery, involved the government’s long-running effort to screen natural products for their cancer-fighting potential. The National Cancer Institute ran the program between 1958 and 1982. Agency-funded scientists, both in-house and at universities […]
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