BioShield law created little incentive for new vaccines
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SAN DIEGO - When President Bush signed Project BioShield into law in July, he said he was immediately making $5.6 billion available to counter such anticipated threats as smallpox genetically engineered to render current vaccines useless.
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Scientists say the government is failing to take advantage of scientific developments in the fight to prevent a flu pandemic.
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Michigan has a new system to speed flu shots to doctors of high-risk patients and to counties, such as Wayne, woefully short of vaccine.
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The US government on Tuesday awarded Sanofi-Aventis (SASY.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) a contract worth up to $41 million through 2008 to ensure that enough eggs are available for future flu vaccine production.
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Synthetic biology can help fight emerging infections, rather than aid the design of bioweapons, says Dr Craig Venter.
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VANCOUVER - Vancouver-based ID Biomedical has decided not to sell 1.2 million flu shots to the US after all - and will keep the vaccine in Canada, at the request of the federal government.
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espite pledges two years ago to maintain a stockpile of drugs to protect Americans in the event of a bioterrorism attack, the federal government has so far set aside only 159 vials of anthrax vaccine for the civilian population enough for ...
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A government program designed to build a national stockpile of biodefense drugs after the 2001 anthrax attacks has a bad reputation among drug companies. Pharmas and the feds trade blame.
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Washington -- All of the human embryonic stem cells available to federally funded scientists under President Bush&#39;s 3-year-old research policy share a previously unrecognized trait that fosters rejection by the immune systems, diminishing their potential
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The US government has awarded VaxGen a contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine for civilian defense. The contract is valued at $877.
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Even as researchers report once again that there is no link between vaccines and the way kids develop, parents of children with autism continue to press their cases against drugmakers. A coming wave of lawsuits?
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President Bush didn't get one. Neither did most of his Cabinet. Same for Democrat John Kerry and running mate John Edwards. The presidential candidates said they passed up a flu shot because of the vaccine shortage.
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British scientists have taken tips from  Mother Nature to develop a new technology that could deliver  cheaper, life-saving vaccines without refrigeration to millions  of children in remote areas of the world.
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A once-scarce vaccine that protects  against a range of infections including meningitis is back in  supply and small children should get four doses, the U.S.  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday.
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Under the Project Bioshield program, firm will make 75 million doses of a newly developed vaccine.
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A new program to provide low-cost drugs to people with cancer and other serious illnesses has fallen far short of expectations, as just a small number of eligible patients
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The flu vaccine is not the only vaccine that Americans could find in short supply due to a lack of enough manufacturing facilities licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration.