Chickenpox Vaccinations Lead to $100 Million Savings
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Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the U.S. health care system nearly $100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found...
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WASHINGTON Twenty (b) billion dollars. That&#39;s the estimated cost in lost productivity due to this year&#39;s flu vaccine shortage.
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The US government on Tuesday awarded Sanofi-Aventis (SASY.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) a contract worth up to $41 million through 2008 to ensure that enough eggs are available for future flu vaccine production.
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A new vaccine that could put the pox on shingles for many adult sufferers of the often painful infection caused by the chickenpox virus has received federal approval, health officials said Friday.
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Microsoft magnate Bill Gates gives $750m to a vaccine fund he says will save millions of children's lives.
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The US government has approved use of the experimental influenza vaccine Fluarix and agreed to purchase 1.2 million doses to help lessen the current shortage.
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Amid an unprecedented shortage of flu vaccine, pharmacists at several Massachusetts hospitals say that suppliers have offered to sell them shots in recent days for as much as $90 a dose, more than 10 times the normal price.
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The government said Thursday it is purchasing 75 million doses of a new generation anthrax vaccine under an $877.5 million contract -- the first awarded through a federal program to develop and stockpile antidotes to biological and chemical weapons.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Department of Health is seeking nearly 100,000 additional doses of flu vaccine for statewide distribution.
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VaxGen, which shifted its focus to bioterrorism treatments after failures in HIV research, has won an $877 million contract to supply the United States government with anthrax vaccine.
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By Janet Elliott, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 15--AUSTIN -- The high cost of the vaccine that protects against a sexually transmitted virus linked to cervical cancer is becoming a key issue in opposition to Gov. Rick Perry's order that schoolgirls receive the shots.
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Nov 4, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Federal health officials today announced the award of an $877 million contract for 75 million doses of a new anthrax vaccine to protect the public and improve on the existing vaccine used by the military.
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Bangkok (VNA) - Thailand on Monday announced that it plans to produce 100 million doses of bird flu vaccine if the outbreak cannot be controlled.
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Karen Wilcox was bewildered and concerned when a rash appeared on her daughter Chloe&#39;s torso. The bumps resembled chicken pox, the Sandy mother thought, but her daughter had received a vaccination for the contagious disease as a baby.
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More than 100 million doses of   influenza vaccine, the largest number ever shipped, will be   available for the U.S. market this flu season, the U.S. Centers   for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday.
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Millions of uninsured Americans could save money on prescriptions under a discount program that 10 major drug makers unveiled Tuesday.
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BRISBANE, Calif. -- A Brisbane company has been awarded an $877.5 million contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine to the federal government, company officials said today.