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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Roche announced the introduction of a flexible purchase program that will allow U.S. businesses to maintain access to their own stockpile of Tamiflu® for use in a pandemic situation, with limited upfront investment and more adaptability to deal with unknown factors inherent in pandemic planning. Under the new plan, businesses pay a nominal annual fee to "reserve" their own stockpile of Tamiflu, which...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Health care professionals should increase influenza immunization rates by implementing key, practice-proven interventions and offering vaccine at every opportunity throughout the entire influenza season, conclude leading influenza experts in a July 2008 supplement to The American Journal of Medicine.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
A nasal spray that mimics our own natural defense system may be the answer to beating the common cold, according to a report in the latest issue of the Society of Chemical Industry's (SCI) magazine, Chemistry & Industry.The spray, being produced by the Califormia based company Novabay, contains an analogue of N-Chlorotaurine (NCT), a compound produced by white blood cells when they are attacked.
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PandemicFlu.gov (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded $12.9 million for the development of low-cost influenza tests that can detect and differentiate seasonal human influenza viruses from avian influenza within three hours.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Tired of catching every winter bug that goes around? Boosting antioxidant-rich fruit and vegetables could be the best defence against winter sniffles and sneezes, according to Accredited Practising Dietitians. The Dietitians Association of Australia said fruit and vegetables contained the right mix of antioxidants for a healthy immune system.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this year's seasonal flu vaccine has only been 44 per cent effective. And depending on how you look at the effectiveness in the various strains, it would appear overall to be the least effective vaccine for since the 1997-98 flu season when the vaccine effectiveness was essentially zero, the CDC told a press conference.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
AirInSpace, a leading supplier of mobile devices that "catch and kill" harmful and resistant biological particles from the air, announced that its partner, Montreal-based Air Data Inc. (ADI), has been certified by the airworthiness branch of Transport Canada to manufacture and market ADI's JetAir® Bio-Protection System (BPS), business jet version.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Scientists from around the world have teamed up to track the way the seasonal flu virus travels from its origins in East and Southeast Asia to where it fizzles out in South America. They hope the discovery will help to improve flu vaccines by making it easier to anticipate how the virus evolves.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
Novavax, Inc. (Nasdaq: NVAX) said that it has received positive results from an immunogenicity study in ferrets inoculated with the company's trivalent seasonal influenza vaccine candidate.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Pharmacists are asked to advise all customers requesting any OTC cough and cold product that these medicines should not be used in infants and children less than 2 years of age. There have been a number of overseas reports of serious adverse effects among infants and children given non-prescription cough and cold medicines.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB:AEMD) disclosed that it has initiated studies to test the in vitro effectiveness of the Aethlon Hemopurifier® to capture a partially reconstructed version of the Spanish Flu of 1918, a viral pandemic outbreak that killed approximately 40-50 million people during a 25-month time span.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Closing schools in the event of a flu pandemic could slow the spread of the virus and prevent up to one in seven cases, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature.
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Testsindicate that a father diagnosed with bird flu in China probably caughtthe disease from his son, only increasing concern about transmission ofthe virus between humans. This was published early online and in theApril 2008 issue of The Lancet. As of April 2, 2008,there have been 376 cases of infection with the highly pathogenic avianinfluenza A (H5N1) virus with 238 deaths reported in 14 differentcountries...
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/08/2008
Replikins Ltd. has found that the Replikin Count(TM) of the H1N1 strain of influenza virus has recently increased to 7.6 (plus/minus 1.4), its highest level since the 1918 H1N1 pandemic (p value less than 0.001).
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Fujian Center for Disease Control & Prevention, China, reported the molecular evolution of influenza A (H3N2) viruses in Fujian Province, south of China during the period 1996иD2004 and demonstrated some key codons responsible for antigenic drift. The study is reported in Issue 51 (April, 2008) of the Science in China Series C: Life Science because of its significant impact.
