Chiron to testify about flu vaccine
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Chiron Corp. CEO Howard Pien is set to reiterate to lawmakers Tuesday that the Emeryville firm expects to supply between 46 million and 48 million influenza vaccine doses to the US market for the upcoming
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Baby boomers, wash your hands and cover your mouths. The country's supply of vaccine for influenza, or the flu, was cut in half last week when CHIRON, an English company that makes flu vaccine, had its ...
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that flu vaccine manufactured in Britain by Chiron Corp. is not usable. The announcement ended hopes that at least some batches of the vaccine were salvageable.
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The Food and Drug Administration will announce next week whether flu vaccine can be imported from Europe and Canada to bolster dwindling US supplies.
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Chiron Corp. is being investigated by  a federal grand jury after failing to deliver flu vaccine this  year because regulators did not consider it safe.
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In late September, Howard Pien, CEO of biotech Chiron (CHIR ), remarked to a Senate committee on aging that he was confident his company would be able to supply the US market with 47 million doses of flu vaccine.
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This year&#39;s US flu vaccine will be safe and will be distributed on time, Chiron Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Howard Pien pledged on Tuesday.
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As the nation prepared for a severe shortage of flu shots, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday that problems at the British plant that manufactured vaccine withheld by British authorities likely will be used as a "test case" to lobby for better information-sharing with European regulators.    Last Tuesday, British authorities blocked Chiron Corp...
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to clear influenza vaccine made by Chiron Corp. as safe for Americans to use this flu season, Dr...
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Chiron Corp. CHIR.O has won a  contract to develop a human vaccine against a strain of bird  flu that can infect people and "has the potential to trigger a  modern-day pandemic," the U.S. government said on Tuesday.
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Chiron Corp. has asked British regulators to inspect its facility producing an experimental bird flu vaccine to make sure it doesn&#39;t run into the same contamination problems
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Production breakdowns at Chiron Corp.'s manufacturing plant in Great Britain meant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could not guarantee the safety of any of the company's flu vaccine this year, the ...
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Chiron Corp. is working with British regulators who suspended its license to sell a flu vaccine and is hoping authorities will lift the suspension in time for the 2005-2006 flu season, the company said Friday.
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Shares of Chiron Corp. (CHIR.O) fell 7 percent before the market open on Friday, a day after the biopharmaceutical company said it is delaying shipment of its flu vaccine, Fluvirin, because lots containing 4 million vaccines do not meet product sterility standards.
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Bay Area biotech giant Chiron reassured lawmakers Tuesday that there will be enough flu vaccine to meet the nation&#39;s need. A manufacturing problem had delayed shipments intended to arrive over the summer.
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None of Chiron Corp.'s CHIR.O flu  vaccine made at a British plant is safe, which means the U.S.  flu vaccine supply will be half of what was expected, U.S.  health officials said on Friday.
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The S.E.C. has launched an informal inquiry into how Chiron handled the disclosure of vaccine-manufacturing problems that caused the nation's flu shot crisis.