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- Flu Inc.: How vaccines became big business 30 Dec 2009 08:04 GMT
... in the fall of 2003 to brief health officials on Capitol Hill. Dr. Ossi, an ... large-scale contracts in dozens of countries, from Switzerland to France and even such smaller nations ... fear over H5N1 at fever pitch, the Swiss signed a contract with Glaxo on a ...
- EU governments seek to offload flu vaccines 5 Jan 2010 07:52 GMT
... due to public unease over mass vaccination. Switzerland and Canada have also acknowledged that they ... vaccination programmes has been sluggish. News that health ministers had vastly overestimated the demand for ... update. According to the European Centre for Disease prevention and Control (ECDC), just over 1,700 ...
- No more needles - scientists work on edible vaccines 29 Dec 2009 11:15 GMT
... scientist who became the toast of the medical world after solving a conundrum that had ... as an epiphany 10 years ago in Switzerland. BARRY MARSHALL: I was sitting in the ... help us to institute or provide better health care for more people. And I cannot ...
- UPDATE 1-Germany aims to cancel millions of Glaxo flu shots 7 Jan 2010 19:15 GMT
... ordered from (GSK) to combat the H1N1 flu virus, and the drugmaker has shown goodwill ... Thursday. GSK and Mechthild Ross-Luttmann, a state health minister who chaired a meeting of government ... similar moves last month by Spain and Switzerland to try and cut deliveries, return unwanted ...
- It's too early to declare an end to the H1N1 flu pandemic, the head of the World Health Organization said Tuesday. 29 Dec 2009 20:51 GMT
... Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, speaks during an end-of-year press conference ... conference at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. It's too early to declare ... Most people infected with H1N1 recover without medical treatment, but there are severe cases among ...
- Developing countries reassess need for donated H1N1 vaccine 7 Jan 2010 05:18 GMT
... As the number of H1N1 (swine flu) cases in some regions of the world ... and next week (Branswell, 1/5). Meanwhile, France's Health Ministry announced Tuesday that it had cancelled ... and last month by Germany, Spain and Switzerland, all of which could curb revenues for ...
- Firmagon has a Significantly Greater Probability of PSA Recurrence-Free Survival Than Leuprolide in Prostate Cancer Patients 31 Dec 2009 05:54 GMT
... Than Leuprolide in Prostate Cancer Patients SAINT-PREX, Switzerland, December 21/PRNewswire/ -- Results from a phase ... mortality rate of 27,050. Ferring is a Swiss-headquartered, research driven, speciality biopharmaceutical group active in ... the areas of urology, gastroenterology, and reproductive health. In recent years Ferring has expanded beyond ...
- Children may opt to switch vaccine with parental consent 7 Jan 2010 02:14 GMT
... Updated Thursday, January 7, 2010 9:57 am TWN, The ... so long as they have parental consent, health authorities announced yesterday. Following a meeting convening ... after vaccine shots for both Adimmune and Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, were administered. For every ...
- Chemotherapy: Research from Cancer Center broadens understanding of chemotherapy 7 Jan 2010 05:54 GMT
... period of 10 years,' have been published. "Cancer of unknown primary site (CUP syndrome) is ... Karnofsky , treatment modality and extent of disease were identified as independent prognostic factors. Our ... S. Karger AG, Allschwilerstrasse 10, CH-4009 Basel, Switzerland. Keywords: City:Hamburg, Country:Germany, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Drug Therapy, ...
- Brunei's close encounter with fast-spreading flu 5 Jan 2010 07:10 GMT
... the first few months of the year, health officials issued risk warnings that were associated ... April 30. Elsewhere, Ireland, the Netherlands and Switzerland fell against what seemed to be the ... specifically inspect the isolation wards and the medical staff procedures in treating the contagion. Asean ...
- 2009 in science and medicine 3 Jan 2010 10:00 GMT
... Yogi Berra might have called it deja vu all over ... a couple of months, leading the World Health Organization to issue its highest warning -- ... dark matter has raged since 1933, when Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky contended that a distant ...
- SWITZERLAND: Antiretroviral Drugs Cut Suicide Rate in Swiss AIDS Patients, a Study Finds 7 Jan 2010 06:18 GMT
... may have changed since the publication date. SWITZERLAND: Antiretroviral Drugs Cut Suicide Rate in Swiss AIDS Patients, a Study Finds New York ... on this website, including information relating to health conditions, products, and treatments, is for informational ...
- Europe seeks to offload flu vaccines 5 Jan 2010 21:50 GMT
... Western European countries, including Switzerland, are queuing up to shift surplus stocks ... 65 million have been vaccinated and European health authorities have said one vaccine dose is ... Althoff, head of media relations at the Swiss pharmaceutical giant. The French government move came ...
- Mali gets tool to detect bogus medicine 31 Dec 2009 19:50 GMT
... BAMAKO, Mali, Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A device introduced by Swiss researchers to the West African nation of ... Information Networks reported. Until now, Mali's national health laboratory used a chemical analysis that was ...
- World held its breath as swine flu grew into pandemic 30 Dec 2009 07:45 GMT
... drug stores even ran out. The World Health Organization (WHO) first reported the outbreak of ... plane carrying swine flu vaccine arriving from Switzerland at the Kiev airport. Tymoshenko's critics immediately ... unsafe - despite the fact that international medical authorities said they were sound. This prompted ...
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