Flu in Medical Technology

Hand Washing with 4% CHG Antiseptic Kills Flu Viruses

Study shows 4% CHG antiseptic is effective against a strain of H1N1 Swine Flu NORCROSS, Ga., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Hand washing with a 4% chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) antiseptic hand washing product is one effective way to stop the spread of the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus. Hibiclens Antise...

Swine Flu (H1N1) Infectivity to Increase Markedly and Lethality to Remain Low According to Latest Replikin* Peptide Genomic Data

BOSTON, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Amid all the speculation over what course the Swine Flu epidemic will take, Boston-based biotech firm Replikins Ltd. ( www.replikins.com ) last week analyzed the most recent peptide genomic sequence data available and determined that the infectivity of the H1N1 vir...

Quest Diagnostics Introduces First Commercial Laboratory Test for Identifying the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus

Real-time PCR test validated using clinical specimens confirmed positive for Influenza A H1N1 Swine-origin flu virus MADISON, N.J., May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (NYSE: DGX ), the world's leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and service...

New Study Shows Probiotic Strain Effective in Boosting Immune Response to Flu Virus

Bacillus coagulans boosts a key immune marker in healthy people CLEVELAND, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- A new study in the current issue of Postgraduate Medicine suggests that a specific strain of probiotics , Bacillus coagulans GBI-30, PTA-6086, increases the body's immune response to the flu ...

American Lung Association Offers Simple Tips to Protect Public Health and Minimize H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) and Seasonal Flu Transmission

WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the confirmed number of H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) cases grows in the United States, public concern understandably grows. The American Lung Association wishes to ease public concern by offering proven advice on how to prevent the spread of contagious respi...

Insurance Industry Teleconference on Swine Flu Pandemic Set for May 13

BERWYN, Pa., May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Just hours after the World Health Organization warned that a Swine Flu or A/H1N1 pandemic is imminent, a prominent insurance law firm announced it will host a teleconference for insurance executives working to address this urgent global risk. "As we've seen ...

Arrayit to Mass Produce Rapid H1N1 Swine Flu Test Chip

SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Arrayit Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: ARYC), a leading manufacturer of products and services for disease prevention, treatment and cure, announced today that it is developing a microarray-based diagnostic test to detect the H1N1 swine...

USAID Provides $5M in Emergency Support as Swine Flu Spreads

WASHINGTON, April 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As concerns over the spread of swine flu grow, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced today that it is providing an additional $5 million to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) ...

One Call Now Offers Notification Service at NO CHARGE for Governments, Schools, Businesses, Religious Organizations and Others in Response to Swine Flu Outbreak

TROY, Ohio, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to outbreaks of swine flu across North America, One Call Now, America's leading emergency notification service, has issued professionally-written influenza notification scripts for use by its 35,000 clients to inform and protect the millions of fami...

The Villa Group Informs on Mexico Travel Plans in Wake of Swine Flu Outbreak

SAN DIEGO, April 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The Villa Group is closely monitoring the recent swine flu outbreak in Mexico and has taken all appropriate steps to ensure the safety and health of all resort guests and employees. None of the Villa Group resort properties (located in Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Val...

Video: Novartis Vaccines and PTA Battle Flu: Public Health Vaccination Initiative Urges Families 'Let's Fight Flu Together!'

- Partnership aims to provide convenient access to vaccination - helping keep kids and teachers in school and parents at work - "Let's Fight Flu Together!" initiative supports CDC's new vaccination recommendations which include children six months to 18 years old(1) - Campaign goal is to i...

The New England Journal of Medicine Publishes Study Investigating the Safety and Efficacy of Baxter's Cell-Based Pandemic, Avian Flu Vaccine

First scientific, peer-reviewed publication showing the candidate vaccine induced neutralizing antibodies against widely divergent H5N1 virus DEERFIELD, Ill., June 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX ) announced publication in the June 12, 2008 issue of The New E...

Starting Flu Vaccination in August Could Help Protect Nearly 11 Million More Children During Scheduled Doctors' Visits

HONOLULU, May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Research presented at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) shows that by starting flu vaccinations in August -- ahead of the start of the typical flu vaccination season -- healthcare providers could reach an additional 10.7 million childr...

PA Department of Health Reports Rise in Flu Activity; Reminds Public of Need for Flu Shot

HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following a sharp rise in reported flu cases, state Health Secretary Dr. Calvin B. Johnson today reminded Pennsylvanians of the steps they can take to avoid contracting or spreading respiratory influenza. The number of flu cases in Pennsy...

Kmart Lowers Flu Shot Price to $10

Customers can still protect themselves this season HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill., Jan. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Kmart Pharmacy today announced a reduction of its flu shot price to $10. "People need to remember that flu season is in full swing, and it can strike at any time, so we are ...

Concentra Medical Centers Gears Up for Flu Season to Keep Area Workforce Healthy

Midwest Hit with Flu Bug CHICAGO, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Concentra Medical Centers, the nation's leader in occupational health care serving employers and employees with 15 centers in the Chicago area, has geared up for the flu season with thousands of flu vaccines to s...

Health Experts and Families Encourage Annual Childhood Flu Vaccination to Reduce Flu-Related Illnesses and Deaths in Children

Families Fighting Flu and CDC Partner to Declare November 27 "National Children's Flu Vaccination Day" More Than 20,000 Children Under Age Five Are Hospitalized Each Year Due to the Flu ATLANTA, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Families Fighting Flu, Inc. (FFF), together with the U.S...

State, Federal Officials Remind Health Care Workers, Other at-Risk Individuals to Get Annual Flu Shot

HARRISBURG, Pa., Nov. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fewer than half of health care workers get an annual flu shot, prompting a reminder today from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control of the need for at-risk individuals to be vaccinated against infl...

This Thanksgiving Give the Gift of Good Health - Remind Family and Friends to Get a Flu Shot.

COLUMBIA, Md., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- With Thanksgiving quickly approaching, Maxim Health Systems is reminding people to get their annual flu vaccination if they have not done so already. Maxim encourages people to visit its Web site http://www.FindaFluShot.com to find a convenient location ...

Despite Serious Health Risks, One in Three Adults with Heart Disease Does Not Believe They Need a Flu Shot This Year

DALLAS, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Death resulting from influenza, often referred to as "the flu," is more common among individuals with heart disease than among patients with any other chronic medical condition. However, according to a new nationwide survey of heart disease patients co...

Concentra Offers Flu Vaccines to Keep America Working

ADDISON, Texas, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Concentra, the largest occupational health care provider with 320 centers across the nation, has launched a campaign to educate America's workforce about the flu, how it is spread, and how to protect against it. The company expects to vaccinate nearly 30...

CVS/pharmacy Offers Flu Vaccinations in Over 4,000 Stores

Annual Vaccination Program Begins October 1, 2007 WOONSOCKET, R.I., Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CVS/pharmacy today announced that it will help keep America healthy this winter by offering flu vaccinations in over 4,000 of its stores across the country. The flu shot clinics wi...

GlaxoSmithKline Receives New HHS Order for H5N1 Bulk Antigen. First North American Clinical Trials with GSK's Candidate Pre-pandemic Flu Vaccine to Start.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE: GSK), one of the world's largest vaccine manufacturers, today announced that HHS has placed another order to purchase bulk H5N1 antigen for the US national stockpile of pre-pandemic vaccines. The company also announced the s...

Carrington Subsidiary DelSite Initiates Critical Toxicology Studies of Its Nasal Powder Bird Flu Vaccine

- Reaching Critical Development Milestone - Novel, Nasal Powder Vaccine Delivery Technology IRVING, Texas, Aug. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Carrington Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq: CARN ) today announced its subsidiary DelSite Biotechnologies, Inc. has initiated the an...

Doctors Urge Precaution to Shield Against Swine Flu

BLAUVELT, N.Y., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- As world health authorities debate how to stop the new strain of potentially deadly swine flu spreading quickly across the globe, medical options are limited. The current strain is a mutant of H1N1, containing a unique combination of pig, bird and huma...

Survey Shows Parents' Best Intentions Out of Step with Expert Recommendations in Protecting Kids from Flu

Flu Vaccination Awareness Campaign Addresses Knowledge Gap, Educates Americans that Electing a President is Not the Only Important Choice to Make this Fall GAITHERSBURG, Md., Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- A new survey of parents of eight-to-17-year olds shows that vac...

Nationwide Survey Reports that Mothers View Cleaning Homes and Toys as Essential to Preventing Colds & Flu

Alliance for Consumer Education Survey Shows Dramatic Increase In Awareness That Proper Cleaning Is Crucial To Preventing The Spread Of Germs WASHINGTON, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A newly released national survey of mothers found that keeping their homes clean was the best means of protecting th...

Rapid Response was Crucial to Containing the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Historical Analyses Help Plan for Future Pandemics BETHESDA, Md., April 2, 2007--One of the persistent riddles of the deadly 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic is why it struck different cities with varying severity. Why were some municipalities such as St. Louis spared the fate of the hard-hit ci...

Novavax Reports Positive Pre-Clinical Study Results from Live Virus Challenge to Pandemic Flu Vaccine

Ferret Study to be Part of Data Package Required to Begin Clinical Trials ROCKVILLE, Md., May 03, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Novavax Inc. said today that it has received positive study results from a live virus challenge to ferrets inoculated with its pandemic influenza vaccine, paving the way...

ANX-201 Drug Combination Demonstrates Synergistic Activity Against Human and Bird Flu Viruses

ADVENTRX Presents Results at International Conference on Antiviral Research SAN DIEGO, May 03, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals, Inc. , a biopharmaceutical research and development company focused on commercializing proprietary product candidates for the treatment of cancer ...

NanoViricides Drugs Found To Be Highly Effective Against Most Recent Strain of the H5N1 Avian Flu Virus

WEST HAVEN, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2007 - NanoViricides, Inc. (Pink Sheets: NNVC) presented results of recent animal studies against rabies and BSL3 in vitro studies against a Clade 2 H5N1 (avian influenza) virus at the 23rd Annual Symposium of the Pan American Society for Clinical Virology...

CEL-SCI'S CEL-1000 Shown to Significantly Enhance Immune Response Against Avian Flu Antigen in Animals

VIENNA, Va., May 23, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CEL-SCI CORPORATION announces that CEL-1000 increased the immune response against H5 avian influenza antigen in combination with MAS-1, a water-in-oil adjuvant delivery system. These findings were presented on May 23, 2007 by Dr. Daniel Zimmerman...

Novavax Pandemic Flu Vaccine Provided Protection Against a Lethal Challenge of Live Virus, Pre-Clinical Data Show

Study Presented at Second International Conference on Avian Influenza at France's Pasteur Institute PARIS, June 01, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Very low doses of Novavax Inc.'s pandemic influenza vaccine provided protection against a lethal challenge of live H5N1 viruses, according to pre-clini...

New Flu Vaccine From PepTcell Could Provide Immunity Against All Strains of Influenza Virus

Data Presented at Leading Influenza Conference HIGH WYCOMBE, England, June 18, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Previously undisclosed pre-clinical data showing how a new flu vaccine has the potential to protect against all strains of influenza, including pandemic and annual, was presented today by PepTcell, ...

New Flu Vaccine from PepTcell Could Provide Immunity Against All Strains of Influenza Virus

Data Presented at Leading Influenza Conference HIGH WYCOMBE, UK 18th June 2007-Previously undisclosed pre-clinical data showing how a new flu vaccine has the potential to protect against all strains of influenza, including pandemic and annual, was presented today by PepTcell, at the 2007 Options...

Rapid Flu Tests May Prove Especially Helpful This Season

On October 5, Chiron Corporation notified the CDC that none of its influenza vaccine (Fluvirin) would be available for distribution in the United States for the current influenza season. In the wake of this sudden removal of nearly half of the anticipated American vaccine supply, medical officials...

NOVAVAX Achieves Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Production Milestone

... study in the elderly population with our Seasonal flu vaccine." "The accomplishments announced t...ently in Phase II trials with a VLP based seasonal flu vaccine candidate. The Company plans to initiate a Phase II study with its Seasonal flu vaccine candidate in the elderly population during...

Scientists Discover Origin of Malaria

... new parasites from chimpanzees. The newly discovered parasites show that malaria jumped from animals to humans, much the way that HIV, SARS and swine flu originated. "This discovery shows that ancient diseases, such as malaria, can originate in the same way that modern pandemics do, namely by jum...

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Reports Positive Results of Shionogi & Co. Sponsored Phase 3 Studies of i.v. Peramivir for Influenza

...U.S. government may choose not to ship peramivir to the CDC Strategic National Stockpile; that to the extent peramivir is used as a treatment for H1N1 flu (or other strains of flu), there can be no assurance that it will prove effective; that HHS may further condition, reduce or eliminate future funding ...

MJFF's Rapid Response Innovation Awards Hit Mid-2009 With Over $1 Million Funded in High-Risk/High-Reward Approaches to Parkinson's Disease

...nza outbreak of 1918, documenting Parkinson's disease following exposure to flu virus. The researchers hypothesize that flu can induce aspects of PD including cell loss, as well as to show how viruse...