Health and Human Services stockpiles 20 million bird flu Vaccines

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to stock vaccines and anti-viral drugs for 20 million people has come under strong criticism for the past some days by Infectious Diseases // Society of America and other critics who say that the stocks are not enough and HHS should stock at least...

Pitt receives $13.4 million NIH grant to create virtual models for epidemics

...ening avian influenza pandemic. These models were influential in forming the World Health Organization's decision about the size of antiviral medicine stockpiles needed to quash a possible avian flu outbreak, and in shaping U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' policies about the impact of "social dista...

EcoloBlue is a New source of Water and a New Green Industry

...rinking water and sewage becomes more difficult with aging and crumbling infrastructures. EcoloBlue (AWG)'s do not deplete the sea or produce unusable stockpiles of salt. Environmental pollution is controlled by the low energy consumption with this method of water production. Water independence is easy and...

GlaxoSmithKline Update: Influenza A (H1N1)

... 2003. Relenza has typically been used to diversify and add to government stockpiles of Tamiflu (oseltamivir). Since 2003, Relenza has been supplied to...he company continues to maintain a close dialogue with governments to build stockpiles of Relenza . Going forward, all new orders will be met through an allocati...

Using a small stockpile of a secondary antiviral drug in a flu pandemic

... In a global influenza pandemic, small stockpiles of a secondary flu medication if used early in local outbreaks could exte... publication in PLoS Medicine . Many countries are investing in large stockpiles of a single drug, oseltamivir (Tamiflu). But influenza viruses can become r...

Kuwait Purchases 5.4 Million Doses of Emergency Nuclear Radiation Drug from Nukepills.com

... Kuwait Ministry of Health stockpiles thyroid-blocking potassium iodide for nuclear radiation emergencies MOORESVILLE, N.C., Jan. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Nukepills.com today announced the ...

New Bird Flu Vaccine Shows Promise

...evelopment, offers a vaccine stockpile and capacity planning to be used in the event a pandemic is declared. Several governments have already received stockpiles and have made advance purchases of capacity." The hunt for a good bird flu vaccine to be used in humans has gone on for some 10 years, since the H5...

NIH awards LIAI major grant to test safety of new smallpox treatment

...e smallpox virus may have fallen into the hands of terrorists or dangerous countries at some point. This concern has led to the creation of worldwide stockpiles of the smallpox vaccine over the last several years. While we do have a smallpox vaccine, there are concerns because people who are immuno-comprom...

Acambis Joins Forces With Sanofi Pasteur to Develop West Nile Virus Vaccine

...or smallpox infection was licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration in August 2007. Acambis has manufactured doses of ACAM2000 for emergency-use stockpiles held by the US Government and several other governments around the world. For safety and prescribing information, please refer to http://www.acambis....

Report highlights inadequate pandemic planning as a threat to EU security

...edications which are the first line of defence before vaccine supplies can be manufactured and distributed. The report notes the recent increase in stockpiles of antivirals by many countries. However, the issue of how to deliver antivirals to individual patients is not addressed with the majority of plans: ...

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GE Healthcare and Novavax Establish Collaboration To Develop and Market Pandemic Influenza Solution

...s virus- like particle (VLP) and manufacturing platform. Health planners around the world are looking to increase manufacturing capacity and vaccine stockpiles to counter the threat of a global avian flu pandemic: the global demand for pandemic influenza vaccine has been reported as possibly approaching 13 bi...

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Nuclear cannibals

... quantities of heat to the environment at the end of the electricity generation cycle. Pearce also suggests that we could "down-blend" nuclear weapons stockpiles to produce nuclear power plant fuel. ...

John Vercoe Conference

...king on ways the worlds small-scale farmers can enhance the breeding potential of their farm animals. As being reported in mass media, global grain stockpiles are being drawn down to their tightest levels in three decades. In just the last 12 months, the world market price for milk has more than doubled from...

Experts predict Tamiflu could halve the pandemic influenza death toll versus no intervention

...za VI, in Toronto.1 The reality is that country stockpiles of Tamiflu are limited and are targeted at treatme...ernments are now planning for sufficient antiviral stockpiles that will allow them to provide Tamiflu preventati...will be immediately available during a pandemic if stockpiles are adequate. The big question is, should we be st...

Medical experts: US unlikely to have enough vaccines to stop avian flu

...al experts who attended the Pandefense 1.0 meeting in November gave a median estimate of a less than 1 percent chance that the U.S. will have adequate stockpiles of vaccines or antiviral drugs to prevent a pandemic within the next three years. The same experts gave a median estimate of 15 percent for the probab...

LIAI scientists make major finding on potential smallpox treatment

...fear that samples of the smallpox virus may have fallen into the hands of terrorists at some point. This concern has led to the creation of worldwide stockpiles of the smallpox vaccine over the last several years. Kronenberg said that if further study continues to validate the safety and effectiveness of D...

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Bavarian Nordic Publishes its Annual Results 2008

...009, the Company will make extraordinarily large drawings on cash as a result of increased costs for scaling up production, the continuing build-up of stockpiles of vaccine, preparation of the Phase III study of PROSTVAC(TM) and increased costs of Phase II and the preparation of Phase III studies of IMVAMUNE(R)...

MedImmune Licenses Reverse Genetics Technology to Hungary's Omninvest for Use in Influenza Vaccine Development and Production

...five other influenza vaccine manufacturers." MedImmune will receive an upfront payment and has the potential to receive royalties on certain vaccine stockpiles or sales of other influenza products developed using the reverse genetics technology. Most influenza vaccine manufacturing companies and governmenta...

GlaxoSmithKline Offers New Purchasing Options to Help Employers Overcome Barriers to Pandemic Stockpiling of Relenza(R)

...s. HHS acknowledges the importance of diversifying stockpiles and recommends the stockpiling of existing antivir...rced the importance of diversifying your antiviral stockpiles in order to help protect the broadest number of em...luenza through vaccine and to develop governmental stockpiles of its antiviral Relenza. GSK has active clinical ...

Roche Introduces Program to Facilitate Corporate Pandemic Stockpiling of Tamiflu(R)

...lies would be needed. Antivirals such as Tamiflu are most effective if taken early, within 48 hours of illness onset. The WHO currently has regional stockpiles in place and administers the antiviral drugs to patients as part of its Rapid Response Protocol for human cases of H5N1 avian influenza virus. "Roch...

Bavarian Nordic Update - 2007 Annual Results, IMVAMUNE(R) Delivery Contract, Strategy Process

...y's cash resources will be extraordinarily affected by increased production costs in connection with the up scaling of production, build-up of vaccine stockpiles under the RFP-3 and increased costs for Phase II studies of IMVAMUNE(R). Thus the liquidity drain in 2008 will be around DKK 400 million. At the end o...

FDA Approves ACAM2000(TM) Vaccine for Protection Against Smallpox

...ages. Recognised internationally as the leading producer of smallpox vaccines, Acambis manufactured its smallpox vaccine, ACAM2000, for emergency-use stockpiles held by the US Government and 14 others governments around the world under a US FDA IND application. ACAM2000 is licensed for active immunization of p...

MedImmune Licenses Reverse Genetics Technology to Novartis for Use in Influenza Vaccine Development and Production

...e the influenza vaccine development process." MedImmune will receive an upfront payment and has the potential to receive royalties on certain vaccine stockpiles or sales of other influenza products developed using the reverse genetics technology. About MedImmune MedImmune strives to provide better medicines ...