A new strain of bird flu appears to retain its ability to cause serious disease even after it develops resistance to anti-viral drugs, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Nicole Bouvier, an assistant professor of medicine, infectious diseases at ...
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Although the flu vaccine's effectiveness is less than 100 percent, U.S. health officials say there would be less sickness if more adults were vaccinated. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said although the flu ...
U.S. flu vaccination prevented an estimated 6.6 million influenza-associated illnesses and 79,000 hospitalizations during last year's flu season, officials say. A report in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and ...
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A U.S. infectious disease expert says one of the most persistent flu myths is that the influenza vaccine can give a person the flu -- it cannot. Dr. Jorge Parada, medical director of the Infection Prevention and Control Program at Loyola ...
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In 2011, 1,925 U.S. malaria cases were reported -- the highest since 1971 and a 48 percent increase from 2008, federal health officials found. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report said the ...
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Recent record cold weather across the United States has placed a strain on natural gas supplies. SoCalGas is asking customers to take simple precautionary steps to conserve natural gas to help ensure supplies are sufficient to meet demand ...
The European Commission (EC) has granted marketing authorisation for AstraZeneca's new four-in-one influenza vaccine Fluenz Tetra for the prevention of influenza in children and adolescents from 24 months up to 18 years of age. The ...
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Egg allergies and fear of needles are no longer arguments to avoid getting the flu vaccine, thanks to improvements available this year, a U.S. expert says. Dr. Jorge Parada, the medical director of the Infection Prevention and Control ...
Getting a flu shot is important for everyone, but it is very important for those with asthma because the flu can make asthma symptoms worse, U.S. officials say. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Morbidity and Mortality ...
Theraclone Sciences has received notification from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) informing the company that their proposal, 'Broad-spectrum anti-influenza A M2e fully human monoclonal antibody TCN-032: ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved GlaxoSmithKline's (GSK) first adjuvanted vaccine for the prevention of H5N1 influenza, also known as avian or bird flu. The pandemic Influenza A (H5N1) Virus Monovalent Vaccine, ...
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After 85 years, antibiotics are growing impotent. So what will medicine, agriculture and everyday life look like if we lose these drugs entirely? A few years ago, I started looking online to fill in chapters of my family history that no ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first adjuvanted pandemic influenza vaccine, Q-pan, to protect against H5N1 influenza, or avian flu. The vaccine, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, was developed in partnership with the ...
For the week ending Nov. 16, flu activity was high in Mississippi, but low overall across most of the nation, federal health officials say. The proportion of people seeing their healthcare provider for influenza-like illness remains below ...
Most people take a healthy immune response for granted, as it typically remains on guard detecting a host of known and as yet unidentified pathogens that may threaten our health. Bacteria and viruses that cause the common cold, flu, ...