The Alabama Department of Public Health is returning 5,200 doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine because of a voluntary recall from the manufacturer. The recall was issued for reasons unrelated to vaccine safety. These lots of vaccine were manufactured for infants and children 6 to 35 months of...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Fluzone High-Dose, an inactivated influenza virus vaccine for people ages 65 years and older to prevent disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and B. People in this age group are at highest risk for seasonal influenza complications...
There is no danger if your child received the H1N1 vaccine that was recalled by Sanofi Pasteur. That is the information being provided to anyone calling the NJ Poison Control Center's hotline, according to Bruce Ruck, Pharm.D., Director of Drug Information and Professional Education. The public...
Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology will take aim at several of the world's most dangerous infectious diseases - tuberculosis, malaria and dengue virus -- in a five-year, $18.8 million federally-funded set of projects seeking to make new inroads toward vaccines...
Researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology will take aim at several of the world's most dangerous infectious diseases - tuberculosis, malaria and dengue virus -- in a five-year, $18.8 million federally-funded set of projects seeking to make new inroads toward vaccines...
Researchers from Thomas Jefferson University are one step closer to developing a vaccine against the AIDS disease. Led by Matthias J. Schnell, Ph.D., director of the Jefferson Vaccine Center, the researchers found that a rabies virus-based vaccine administered to monkeys protected against the...
UroToday.com - Immunotherapy with interleukin 2 (IL-2) for metastatic renal cancer continues to offer a minority of patients the potential of durable complete responses without additional treatments. The lack of benefit in the majority of patients is evidence that the balance of complex...
Just because a vaccine is available doesn't mean people will choose to be inoculated, according to new UofT research published amid widespread public confusion around the merit of H1N1 flu shots. The research - which looked at acceptability of potential future HIV vaccinations among high-risk...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Agriflu for people ages 18 years and older to prevent disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and B.
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The Free Market is a god-like powerful force that we can rely on to solve our problems, especially those of supply and demand. So if, as the WHO estimates, about 2% of the population is going to be covered by H1N1 Swine Flu vaccine then ... shall we assume that the other 98% of the world's...
...yet, but i have dogs.? should i wait to get the kitten untill its old enough to get the vaccine?! can cats give dogs rabies? my dogs are up to date on their vaccines but i dont want anything to happen to my dogs...
hepa b vaccine comes in 3 injections; what if u only got 1 or 2 of those injections and miss out on the remaining 1 or 2.. what is the effect? any bad side effects? or the injections just wont be as effective?
My cat lost a patch of hair at the area of her vaccination. She is 10 years old and this has never happened before.We took her to the vet and they said that it's an allergic reaction and that next time they'll do it in the muscle. However, now there is also a tiny wound at the injection area...
Please give your opinion on why you think the MMR vaccine should be compulsory. I want facts about it like its almost elimintated from america because of the no jab no school policy. Have you given your children the MMR vaccine, and how did you come to your decision. ? x
I am interested in knowing why people claim the MMR vaccine is linked to autism at age two. Is the second dose that is administered also considered a cause for autism? Is there a different ingredient in the second dose that doesnt cause as much of an uproar? I am reading the first shot is a...