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SCOTT GOTTLIEB Though the swine flu is widespread in 46 states many Americans are still waiting to get their vaccines. The Obama administration blames the shortage on manufacturing delays at the five firms making these products. But production issues only explain part of the shortfall. Also to ...
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This fall, the swine flu, which first made
its appearance as an epidemic back in April, is...
re-emerging. As seasonal flu season kicks into gear, the swine flu is making a comeback.
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The Ultimate Guide to the Swine Flu Vaccine
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How Europe Made Better H1N1 Vaccine Choices than the USA
Next Big Future —
The Wall Street Journal describes how Europe made better choices than the USA in regards to H1N1 vaccines * Europe choose to use adjuvants An adjuvanted H1N1 vaccine being used in Europe contains 3.75 micrograms of vaccine stock. The same vaccine in the U.S., without the adjuvant, requires 15 micrograms of vaccine for equal potency. If we used adjuvants, we could have had four times the number of shots with the same raw material * Use Mammalian cells instead of chicken eggs to grow vaccine Shots can ...
Festival Of Idiots: The Columbus Dispatch For H1N1 Vaccine Fear-Mongering
Scientific Blogging —
... to prevent disease, if only because it does not appear that there will be enough vaccine to mass vaccinate. DeMio makes it sound like there are thousands of doctors and thousands of scientists and thousands of parents that question the swine flu vaccine. Rather, the "thousands" is the sum total of those groups, whose distribution we have clarified in graphic form. The Festival board agrees with DeMio on one point and one point only (perhaps in the entire universe on points). One should always carefully consider the costs and benefits of any medical intervention. For ...
Policy Decisions Slow H1N1 Vaccine Production
FuturePundit —
Policy Decisions Slow H1N1 Vaccine Production Why is H1N1 influenza vaccine coming out so slowly in the United States? Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA deputy commissioner, says a few policy decisions slow the production of vaccine. Why do adjuvants matter? An adjuvanted H1N1 vaccine being used in Europe contains 3.75 micrograms of vaccine stock. The same vaccine in the U.S., without the adjuvant, requires 15 micrograms of vaccine for equal potency. If we used adjuvants, we could have had four times the number of shots with the same raw material. Our regulators are more ...
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npr.org 10/1/2009 — The first doses of vaccine against swine flu officially known as H1N1 of 2009 will start arriving at hospitals, doctors' offices and clinics around the country this week. That's record time for a new vaccine only a little more than five months ...
The Ultimate Guide to the Swine Flu Vaccine
onlinemha.com 21 days ago — This fall, the swine flu, which first made its appearance as an epidemic back in April, is re-emerging. As seasonal flu season kicks into gear, the swine flu is making a comeback.
Firm to test swine flu vaccine
rte.ie 8/8/2009 — Pharmaceutical firm Baxter International says it has produced its first commercial batches of a human swine flu vaccine called Celvapan A/H1N1.
One dose of swine flu vaccine may be enough
latimes.com 9/11/2009 — To the surprise of many scientists, preliminary results from a clinical trial of a vaccine for pandemic H1N1 influenza in Australia suggest that one dose of vaccine might be sufficient to provide protective antibodies, a finding that could double the number of available doses and greatly reduce...
Swine Flu Information
mednews.com 4/26/2009 — Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza that regularly cause outbreaks of influenza among pigs.
Swine flu viruses do not normally infect humans, however, human infections with swine flu do occur, and cases of human-to-human spread of swine flu ...
Children, the Flu, and the Flu Vaccine
cdc.gov 10/16/2009 — The Danger of Flu to Children Flu is more dangerous than the common cold for children. Each year, seasonal flu places a large burden on the health and well-being of children and families. This year there is a new and very different flu virus spreading ...
This week in swine flu vaccines
scienceblogs.com 9/12/2009 — There's been a great deal in the news regarding the first reports on the swine flu vaccine trials, so we didn't feel the need to be the first off the mark for something you could read anywhere (and everywhere). We still don't have much to add, but ...
Pregnant Women First to Get Swine Flu Vaccine
pharmaknowledgebase.blogspot.com 8/22/2009 — If swine flu vaccine is in short supply -- nationally or in local areas -- pregnant women and people caring for or living with infants will go to the front of the line, the main U.S. vaccine advisory committee today recommended.
Next would come health care workers and first responders who ...
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