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Vaccinating Children For Flu May Help Prevent Transmission, Protect Those Who Are Not Vaccinated
Immunizing children and adolescents with inactivated influenza vaccine resulted in reduced rates of influenza in their community compared to a similar community in which children did not receive the vaccine, suggesting that vaccinating children may help prevent transmission of the virus and offer protection for unimmunized community residents, according to a study in the March 10 issue of JAMA...
Pharmacy Swine Flu Trial Moves Into Phase II - Pharmaceutical Society Of Australia
The first phase of a swine flu vaccination program trial conducted in Tasmania by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia and the Department of Health and Human Services has proved popular with the community. Phase II of the pandemic vaccination program will now be rolled out to allow pharmacy-based clinics to support other elements of the swine flu vaccination program...
Vaccinating Kids Against Flu Protects Whole Community, Canadian Study
A new study carried out in Hutterite communities in Canada revealed that giving kids and teenagers flu shots led to lower rates of flu in communities that followed such a strategy compared to similar communities that did not, suggesting that vaccinating children may prevent the virus from spreading and protects members of the community who are not vaccinated, produc...
AmpVacs A Broadly Protective Synthetic Influenza A Vaccine
Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation, the Netherlands Cancer Institute, and the Netherlands Vaccine Institute announce the launch of their joint AmpVacs project aiming at the development of a broadly protective synthetic influenza A vaccine component that in combination with classical antibody-stimulating vaccines will induce protection against future influenza A threats...
Pandemic Flu, Like Seasonal H1N1, Shows Signs Of Resisting Tamiflu
If the behavior of the seasonal form of the H1N1 influenza virus is any indication, scientists say that chances are good that most strains of the pandemic H1N1 flu virus will become resistant to Tamiflu, the main drug stockpiled for use against it...
Cold Weather Falls: Prevention Is Better Than Cure
Winter statistically represents a time when older people are more susceptible to slips, trips and falls. However, Balance Master's Peter Hope argues that fall prevention is better than cure...
Loyola Physician Discusses What Happened To The Flu
Normally, this is the peak period for the flu in the United States. But that just doesn't seem to be the case this year. The number of states reporting widespread cases of the flu mysteriously plunged from 49 at the end of October to zero at the beginning of the January, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Dynavax Selects Clinical Candidate In Universal Flu Vaccine Program
Dynavax Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: DVAX) announced that it has selected a clinical vaccine candidate for its novel Universal Flu program, completed key preclinical studies, and is reviewing clinical plans with the FDA in anticipation of initiating a Phase I study by mid-year...
Flu Shots For All Says CDC Panel
A panel of experts that advises the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on vaccine issues, voted this week to recommend that all persons aged 6 months and over receive annual influenza vaccinations...
Project GreenVax Announced By Texas-Based Consortium
Leaders of the Texas Plant-Expressed Vaccine Consortium have announced a biotherapeutic manufacturing initiative designed to show proof of concept for a landmark new technology that could dramatically increase the nation's capability to produce vaccines for infectious diseases, including influenza...
Dry Winters Linked To Seasonal Outbreaks Of Influenza
The seasonal increase of influenza has long baffled scientists, but a new study published this week in PLoS Biology has found that seasonal changes of absolute humidity are the apparent underlying cause of these wintertime peaks. The study also found that the onset of outbreaks might be encouraged by anomalously dry weather conditions, at least in temperate regions...
Diagnostic Hybrids Receives FDA Emergency Use Authorization For D3 Ultra 2009 H1N1 Influenza A Virus ID Kit
Diagnostic Hybrids, a Quidel Company (NASDAQ: QDEL) has received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its D3 Ultra 2009 H1N1 Influenza A Virus ID Kit, a monoclonal antibody fluorescent staining kit for the specific identification of 2009 H1N1 influenza A in direct patient specimens or incubated tissue cultures...
FDA Recommends H1N1 For Inclusion In Next Year's Flu Vaccine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday recommended that the H1N1 (swine flu) strain be added to next year's seasonal flu vaccine, "putting an end to separate shots deployed against the pandemic," Bloomberg reports. The FDA committee voted unanimously to make the H1N1 strain one of the three strains included in the shot, according to the news service...
PositiveID Corporation Successfully Completes Phase I Development Of Its Rapid Virus Detection System
PositiveID Corporation ("PositiveID" or the "Company") (NASDAQ:PSID), in conjunction with its development partner RECEPTORS LLC ("Receptors"), announced today that it has successfully completed Phase I development of its rapid virus detection system, a non-invasive, point-of-care test to test patient samples and identify various forms of influenza within minutes...
Pandemic Hybrid Of Bird And Human Seasonal Flu Possible Say Scientists
An international team of scientists has created a highly pathogenic laboratory hybrid of the H5N1 bird flu and human seasonal flu viruses by swapping just one gene, and propose that a similar genetic interaction could happen in nature between the current pandemic H1N1 swine flu and H5N1 avian flu strains, highlighting the importance of continued surveillance...
Virus Hybridization Could Create Pandemic Bird Flu
Genetic interactions between avian H5N1 influenza and human seasonal influenza viruses have the potential to create hybrid strains combining the virulence of bird flu with the pandemic ability of H1N1, according to a new study. In laboratory experiments in mice, a single gene segment from a human seasonal flu virus, H3N2, was able to convert the avian H5N1 virus into a highly pathogenic form...
Adamas Pharmaceuticals Announces In Vitro Data Demonstrating TCAD Therapy Is More Potent Than Double Combinations Or Monotherapy Against Resistant Flu
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European Medicines Agency Updates On Pandemic Influenza
The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has recommended the granting of a conditional marketing authorisation for Humenza from Sanofi Pasteur SA...
WHO Recommends H1N1 Be Added To Next Year's Seasonal Flu Virus
The WHO is recommending the H1N1 (swine flu) virus be added to the regular flu vaccine for the Northern Hemisphere's 2010-2011 regular flu season, the Associated Press reports (2/18). The recommendations, announced Thursday, came after a "closed-door four-day meeting" of WHO influenza experts, Reuters reports...
Swine Flu Update, Thursday, 18th February, 2010, Ireland
ILI rate The Department of Health & Children and the HSE advised yesterday (18th February, 2010) that the rate of influenza-like illness (ILI) for the week ending Sunday 14th February 2010 (week 6, 2010), was 6.2 per 100,000 population. This is a slight decrease from the 6.8 per 100,000 population reported during week 5, 2010...
Flu-Induced Stress Response Is Critical For Resistance To Secondary Infection
A new study reveals how infection with the influenza virus impacts the way that the immune system responds to subsequent infections. The research, published by Cell Press in the February 18th issue of the journal Cell Host and Microbe, provides a new understanding of the physiological and pathological consequences of the flu...
Sinus Infection Or Cold?
Have a cold that just won't go away or is getting worse? Chances are your cold has developed into a sinus infection a common problem this time of year, says Alan Wild, M.D., assistant professor of otolaryngology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. "Most colds resolve without progressing to a sinus infection," Wild said...
Stopping a cold from turning into a sinus infection
Have a cold that just won't go away or is getting worse? Chances are your cold has developed into a sinus infection - a common problem this time of year, says Alan Wild, M.D., assistant professor of otolaryngology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. "Most colds resolve without progressing to a sinus infection," Wild said...
Poor Evidence For Effectiveness Of Influenza Vaccines In Elderly
Evidence for the safety and efficacy of influenza vaccines in the over 65s is poor, despite the fact that vaccination has been recommended for the prevention of influenza in older people for the past 40 years. These are the conclusions of a new Cochrane Systematic Review. Adults aged 65 and over are some of the most vulnerable during influenza season and a priority for vaccination programmes...
Amarillo Biosciences Announces Australian Phase 2 Oral Interferon Clinical Trial Indicates Benefit In Preventing Influenza-Like Illness In Seniors
Amarillo Biosciences, Inc. (ABI) (OTCBB: AMAR) announced additional preliminary results from the recently completed Phase 2 clinical trial conducted in Perth, Australia at the University of Western Australia with Professors David Smith and Manfred Beilharz as principal investigators...
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