Fed Gov promises investigation into polio vaccine virus SV40
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TONY EASTLEY: The Federal Government has promised an inquiry into reports that the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories knowingly released batches of the polio vaccine contaminated with a virus linked to cancer.
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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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NEW YORK  - Simian virus 40 (SV40), which  contaminated polio vaccine widely distributed between 1955 and  1962, does not seem to have increased the likelihood of an  exposed person developing the blood cancer non-Hodgkin lymphoma  (NHL), according to a report from the National Cancer  Institute.
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The state is seeking help from the federal government to determine which areas of Michigan have been hit hardest by an unexpected shortage of flu vaccine.
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Description: Congress will hold hearings to determine how the nation wound up facing a shortage of influenza vaccine. About 40 million doses -- roughly half the anticipated US supply -- were impounded in Great
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Worried that tens of thousands of doses may go to waste, a federal advisory panel wants the government to ease restrictions on the nation's supply of flu vaccine.
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The US government is diverting money budgeted for vaccinating children to pay for experimental flu vaccines for adults, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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Scientists have taken a step closer to  creating a vaccine against a virus that causes the most common  form of diarrhea and vomiting in children.
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The US Food and Drug Administration said it will &quot;expeditiously&quot; consider Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich&#39;s request to buy up to 87,000 flu shots from European suppliers, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday.
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Florida will receive an additional 440,000 doses of scarce flu vaccine by next Tuesday, bringing the total doses shipped to the state to more than a million, state Health Secretary Dr.
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The US health secretary asks local officials to investigate reports of companies raising prices to exploit a flu vaccine shortage.
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Nevada County health officials will be looking for flu vaccine today from the private sector so that enough will be available for children and seniors when flu season starts next month.
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WASHINGTON - A senator suggested Tuesday that money federal health officials have sought to upgrade flu vaccine production is on the way - an effort to avoid another year like this one, when the United States lost nearly half its supply of vaccine.
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The U.S. Congress began  investigating on Wednesday whether the U.S. Food and Drug  Administration overlooked problems at a British plant that led  to the withdrawal of half the country's flu vaccine supply.
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Concerned health officials began investigating on Friday what went wrong at a British vaccine plant where half the US flu shots were made
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The federal government is using money that was intended for vaccinating children to pay for experimental flu vaccines for adults, federal health officials said yesterday.
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Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) has decided to sign legislation requiring sixth-grade girls get immunized against a virus that causes cervical cancer if their parents don't object, his aides said this morning.