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It is not often that companies cheer the news that a competitor has beaten them to market with a hot new product. But something like that happened last week when the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had approved commercial production of a new vaccine against hepatitis B, a...
When the first international conference on AIDS met in Atlanta 14 months ago, an air of optimism prevailed. In a remarkably short time, scientists had not only identified the virus responsible for the disease but devised a blood test that could determine if a person had ever been infected. Would...
Whooping cough, named for the distinctive sound made by its victims as they gasp for air between bouts of violent coughing, was until the 1940s a major killer of children. Caused by a bacterial infection that increases the amount of mucus in the lungs, the disease sometimes results in convulsions...
Minor reactions to the vaccine, such as redness and swelling, are common. Permanent brain damage, according to one study, occurs only once in about every 300,000 inoculations, death even less frequently. Researchers suspect that these severe complications--which can include convulsions, shock, loss of muscle control and fever--are...
Regulatory agencies are primarily concerned with eliminating as many unknowns as possible from genetically engineered products, Goldberg said. "The things closest to traditional products are the most easily marketable," he said. For example, using genetic engineering to produce an animal vaccine results in the same product as that made by...