New vaccine OK&#39;d for infant diarrhea
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A new vaccine against rotavirus, the diarrheal infection that kills millions of children worldwide, doesn&#39;t appear to raise the risk of serious bowel
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HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson announced on Tuesday that FDA has authorized the use of GlaxoSmithKline&#39;s flu vaccine Fluarix under an investigational new drug application, and HHS will purchase 1.2 million doses of the vaccine.
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A new rotavirus vaccine, Rotarix, does not increase the risk of serious bowel blockages, apparently. The previous rotavirus vaccine had to be taken off the market because of serious bowel blockages.
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MedImmune has cleared a significant hurdle to revive its long-troubled nasal flu vaccine, announcing yesterday that the Food and Drug Administration had approved FluMist for children 2 to 5 years old.
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Northwest Biotherapeutics, a US-based biotech company, said Monday it had won approval for commercial use of the world&#39;s first vaccine against brain cancer in Switzerland.
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BETHESDA, Md.  - A panel of U.S. experts on  Wednesday unanimously agreed that a new Sanofi-Aventis   meningitis vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective, but  said follow-up data was needed.
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Chinese-developed AIDS vaccine won government approval to be tested by human bodies Thursday, according to the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) of China.
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For the first time, researchers say, a vaccine against malaria has shown that it can save children from infection and death. The vaccine, tested on thousands of children in Mozambique, hardly performed perfectly
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The Food and Drug Administration approved Clolar, Genzyme Corp.&#39;s new drug for patients under 21 with acute lymphocytic leukemia.
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A new vaccine against rotavirus, the diarrheal infection that kills millions of children worldwide, does not appear to raise the risk of serious bowel blockages that caused a previous vaccine to be pulled from the market five years ago, doctors reported
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WASHINGTON -- The government warned on Tuesday of potentially life-threatening twisting of the intestines in infants vaccinated against a virus that is the leading cause of early childhood diarrhea.
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In a clinical trial involving more than 2,000 children under the age of five, a potential malaria vaccine was shown to be safe and well tolerated by the children&#39;s immune system for up to six months.
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Japanese scientists have engineered an oral cholera vaccine encased in rice protein that has proved to be effective in mice, raising hopes it will offer humans better protection against the disease.
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An experimental vaccine can slash the risk that children will get malaria, apparently offering the first effective way to inoculate youngsters against one of the world&#39;s biggest
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The Department of Health is considering introducing a new jab to protect babies against bacterial meningitis, septicaemia and pneumonia.
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NEW YORK  - The recommendation by the  American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in 1995 that all children  in the US be given the chickenpox vaccine seems to have paid  off handsomely, a study indicates.
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The Food and Drug Administration this week proposed a regulation to improve the safety of shell eggs on the farm. Specifically the aim is to significantly reduce the number of illness caused by eggs contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis (SE).