WHO Sets Flu Vaccine Summit Meeting
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With increasing signs that bird flu is becoming established in Asia and a shortage of flu vaccine in America, health officials from several nations and more than a dozen
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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 government holds a summit in an attempt to take action over the number of deaths on building sites.
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The world is at an unprecedented time in the history of influenza with the threat posed by the current widespread outbreak of the H5N1 avian strain in Asia, a conference on global infectious diseases was told today.
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Indonesia will resume sharing bird flu  samples with the World Health Organization (WHO), but under a  new mechanism aimed at ensuring developing nations get access  to vaccines, the health minister and the WHO said on Friday.
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TORONTO (CP) - The World Health Organization, key countries and major flu vaccine makers agreed Friday there is an urgent need to push forward with production and licensing of trial batches of pandemic influenza vaccine.
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UNITED NATIONS - The head of the Senate's Environment Committee called on the White House Friday to hold a summit grouping the 12 largest greenhouse-gas emitting nations.Sen.
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Indonesia agreed to resume sharing its bird flu virus with the World Health Organization Friday under condition that developing countries will have equal access to an affordable vaccine, officials from both sides said.
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U.S. and British drug regulators met  Thursday to discuss the closing of a flu-vaccine plant in  northern England that has triggered an international vaccine  shortage -- but there was no immediate resolution of the  crisis.
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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.
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About 60 experts meeting at the Geneva-based World Health Organization have agreed on a strategy to try to prevent and contain a global influenza outbreak that they say could kill millions of people.
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Delegates from the world's top polluting nations are meeting in Washington to discuss tackling climate change.
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Federal health officials could import up to 5.2 million additional flu vaccine doses from Canada and Germany to help mitigate an unexpected national flu vaccine supply shortage if manufacturing facilities in those countries pass FDA inspections, HHS
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The US shortage of flu vaccine has been so troublesome to health officials that the World Health Organization has called a summit to help prevent it from happening again.
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The World Health Organization has called an unprecedented summit of flu vaccine makers and nations next week to expand plans for dealing with the growing threat of a flu pandemic.
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A panel of experts will meet on Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should approve Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine, which could become the first such product cleared for the U.S. market.
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TORONTO (CP) - US health authorities seeking desperately to overcome a massive shortage of flu vaccine in that country are in discussions with Canada&#39;s major influenza vaccine producer, the company confirmed Tuesday.