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The newest vaccine, called FluLaval, and distributed by GlaxoSmith Kline, is similar to the four other shots currently available (Fluzone, from Sanofi Pasteur and Connaught Laboratories; Fluvirin, from Novartis and Evans; FluMist , from MedImmune; and Fluarix, also from GlaxoSmith Kline). Like them, it is made by incubating strains of the...
Just in time for the flu season, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new flu vaccine on Thursday, bringing the total number of flu shots manufactured in the U.S. to five. With the addition of the latest vaccine, the Department of Health and Human Services expects to have an...
To the editors: I thought your article on the recent approval of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was well researched and reported (“A Welcome Pharmaceutical,” editorial, Sept. 26). Women’s healthcare issues have received far less funding and attention than men?...
This year's polio outbreak has been concentrated in India's largest state, Uttar Pradesh, home to over 170 million people. It is here, say health workers, that a few ultraconservative Muslim clerics have spread a myth that the polio vaccine is part of an underhanded campaign to sterilize Muslim...
Some countries are taking the renewed threat of polio very seriously. Last year, Saudi Arabia announced that all travelers from countries with polio, under the age of 15, would have to show valid proofs of vaccination before they got a visa to enter the country. India's health minister, Anbumani...