Glaxo Seeks Entry Into US Flu Vaccine Market
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc is exploring ways to sell its Fluarix flu vaccine in the United States, where supplies have run short this season after Chiron Corp lost a year&#39;s production to contamination.
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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration preliminary analysis found a level of heart-attack risk with GlaxoSmithKline Plc's  diabetes drug Avandia similar to what was reported in a study earlier this week, the agency confirmed on Friday.
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New Mexico joined Illinois Thursday in saying it wants to buy flu vaccine from a foreign plant. The states are gambling that the shortage of vaccine might persuade the Food and Drug Administration to take the unusual step of letting a state import a vaccine.
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Tony Holler thinks there&#39;s still an even chance US regulatory authorities will find a way to import his company&#39;s surplus influenza vaccine to help fill a gaping void created by the unexpected loss of half the US annual supply of flu shots.
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Aventis Pasteur, the world&#39;s largest flu vaccine manufacturer and the sole supplier of flu shots to the USA this year, will begin preparing for year-round production under a $10
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration, seeking to ease a major shortage of flu shots, is in discussions with two companies that sell flu vaccine in Canada and elsewhere, and have found a few million unsold doses.
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LONDON -- GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world's second-largest pharmaceutical company, said Monday that it expects to introduce five new cancer treatments through 2010.
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TORONTO (CP) - Officials of the US Food and Drug Administration will inspect the Ste-Foy, Que., flu vaccine production plant of ID Biomedical next week in a bid to approve the company&#39;s surplus vaccine for importation to the United States.
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The Harris County Hospital District is hoping it can snag a few thousand of the 24 million doses of flu vaccine that haven&#39;t been shipped by vaccine maker Aventis Pasteur.
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New York City joined Illinois&#39; effort on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of thousands of doses of scarce flu vaccine from Europe, though US regulatory approval of the transaction was still up in the air.
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HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today that the Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of GlaxoSmithKline influenza vaccine, Fluarix, in the United States under an Investigational New Drug application.
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In answer to this year&#39;s flu shot shortage, the Bush administration said yesterday that they intend to buy 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine from a plant in Germany.
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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration  preliminary analysis found a level of heart-attack risk with  GlaxoSmithKline Plc&#39;s  diabetes drug Avandia  similar to what was reported in a study earlier this week, the  agency confirmed on Friday.
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Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Monday that the European Union has allowed it to market Cervarix -- a vaccine used to protect against cervical cancer.
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This season's flu-shot shortage is enticing companies to enter a market that others have largely abandoned because of poor profits.- The Washington Post
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The US made a special exception on Tuesday to purchase as many as 4 million doses of flu vaccine not licensed for use in the US. The Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of GlaxoSmithKline influenza
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GlaxoSmithKline believes it has a vaccine for the deadly H5N1 bird flu that may be capable of mass production by 2007.