WHO to hold summit on producing flu vaccine
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The World Health Organization has invited Sanofi-Aventis SA, the world&#39;s biggest maker of flu vaccine, and 15 other companies to join government health officials in planning how to produce
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In a hearing on the national flu vaccine shortage, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health on Thursday requested that FDA, HHS and flu vaccine manufacturer Chiron by Dec. 1 produce documents detailing
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The problem of producing life-saving vaccines for children which are permissible under Islam was a key topic for health experts in talks here Tuesday ahead of an inaugural health conference for OIC nations.
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Health authorities across the country meet today to discuss stepping up measures against the bird flu, in the wake of possible signs of human-to-human transmission of the lethal virus.
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TORONTO - In the wake of yet another avian influenza death in Thailand, the World Health Organization urged countries with flu vaccine production capacity and their manufacturers to speed up work on trial vaccines against the highly deadly H5N1 virus.
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TORONTO (CP) - The chief executive of Canada&#39;s pandemic influenza vaccine manufacturer says he believes the federal government will fund development and testing of a candidate vaccine for the avian flu strain known as H5N1.
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Top health officials with the Bush administration are fanning out across the country this week to quell rising anxiety over the flu vaccine shortage, asserting that there will
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Experts met in London Tuesday to discuss how to make a cervical cancer vaccine available to women in poor countries who need it most. The two-day meeting was being attended by some 60 representatives from public health agencies, pharmaceutical companies, non-governmental organizations and philanthropic foundations to try to accelerate the developing world's access to the vaccine.
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Five million additional does of flu  vaccine have been located in Germany and Canada and U.S.  regulators will try to import them for Americans if they meet  U.S. safety standards, Health and Human Services Secretary  Tommy Thompson said on Thursday.
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WASHINGTON - The World Health Organization is about to hold a summit to prepare for what it says it the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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Nov 12, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The World Health Organization&#39;s top influenza expert warned at the end of a 2-day international meeting today that governments need to fund the development of vaccines to combat a feared flu pandemic that could kill millions
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Pregnant women, babies and toddlers would join doctors, emergency workers and soldiers at the head of the line for scarce vaccine if a super-strain of flu triggers the next pandemic, says a draft government plan to be released Tuesday.
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The World Health Organization has called an unprecedented summit next week of flu vaccine makers and nations to expand plans for dealing with the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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U.S. health officials are talking  with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of  securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when  manufacturing problems cost the country half its supply.
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OTTAWA - Canada&#39;s premiers are gathered in Ottawa preparing for an historic summit with the prime minister on the issue of health care.
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THE World Health Organisation has called an unprecedented summit of flu vaccine makers to boost plans for dealing with the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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This year's U.S. flu vaccine will be safe and will be distributed on time, Chiron Corp. President and Chief Executive Officer Howard Pien pledged on Tuesday.