Sanofi Wins Contract for Flu Shot Vaccine
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The U.S. government on Tuesday awarded Sanofi-Aventis  a contract worth up to &#36;41 million through 2008 to ensure enough eggs are available for future flu vaccine production.
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MedImmune Inc. agreed to produce 3 million doses of its FluMist spray flu vaccine this season with the encouragement of federal health officials, but now it appears the company may sell only one-third that number of doses.
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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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Danish vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic  said on Monday it had won a U.S. government contract for the manufacture and delivery of 20 million doses of the company's smallpox vaccine, Imvamune.
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Tiny VaxGen Inc. hit a home run Thursday when it won an $877 million contract to supply the US government with an anthrax vaccine for civilian defense.
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US health officials, taking another step to ease the season&#39;s flu shot shortage, approved the importation of up to 4 million flu shot doses from Europe on Tuesday for patients willing to sign a consent form.
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The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that flu vaccine maker Aventis Pasteur will be able to deliver 2.8 million more vaccine
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The U.S. Health and Human Services  Department said on Tuesday it had ordered 2 million doses of  avian influenza vaccine from Aventis Pasteur Inc.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - Data for Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine support its safety and effectiveness for use in the event of a widespread outbreak, a U.S. advisory panel said on Tuesday.
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PARIS Sanofi-SynthÃ©labo, which this month completed its $63 billion purchase of a rival drug manufacturer, Aventis, reported Tuesday a 21 percent jump in first-half profit on higher demand for the blood thinner Plavix and the cancer treatment Eloxatin.
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ID Biomedical Corp. signed long-term agreements with three of the largest US flu vaccine wholesalers, causing the firmâs shares to climb 9.2 percent.
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U.S. health officials on Tuesday  approved the importation of up to 4 million doses of influenza  vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline GSK.L GSK.N, bringing the  U.S. total to 65 million vaccines for this flu season.
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WASHINGTON - The government is purchasing additional doses of flu vaccine from a foreign manufacturer to help relieve the US shortage.
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A first-generation experimental bird flu vaccine for use in humans from GlaxoSmithKline Plc has won outline support from European regulators.
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Indonesia signs an agreement with a US firm over a human bird flu vaccine in a move that stirs controversy.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Newly merged French pharmaceutical Sanofi-Aventis (SNY) (FR:012057) on Tuesday said it can confirm the accretive impact of the merger on 2004 proforma net income after Sanofi-Synthelabo posted a 20.
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VaxGen (VXGN:OTC - news - research) said Thursday that it had received a US government contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine for civilians.