Invasive pneumonia and antibiotic resistance decreased after childhood vaccine introduced
...nd sepsis, was dramatically reversed following the licensing and use of a new conjugate vaccine for young children in February 2000, according to research conducted at Emory University, the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Georgia Division of Publ...NIAID begins enrolling volunteers for novel HIV vaccine study
...pected to provide enough data to support immediate licensing of the vaccine for public use, says Margaret (Peggy) Johnston, Ph.D., who oversees HIV vaccine research at NIAID's Division of AIDS. The Merck vaccine contains a weakened adenovirus that serves as a carrier for three subtype B HIV genes. Subtype B i...RelayHealth selected by Columbia University to link doctors and patients online
...mmunication services, today announced a three-year licensing agreement with CPPN the physician/provider managed care organization of Columbia University Medical Center in Manhattan. Starting in January, the more than 1,100 CPPN physicians and other health care providers will have the opportunity to partake in ...Treating individuals: How generalisable are trial data?
...ernal validity of RCTs submitted to pharmaceutical licensing authorities. Increased consideration of external validity in the CONSORT guidelines on the reporting of RCTs, and the Cochrane Collaboration guidelines on systematic reviews, and agreement on a checklist. The International Committee of Medical Jour...HydroGlobe acquired by Graver Technologies
... Technology Initiatives, negotiated the technology licensing agreement on Stevens' behalf. "This acquistion and our agreement with Graver to license Stevens' water-filtration technologies through their HydroGlobe unit is a major affirmation of Stevens' vision of Technogenesis," said Wisniewski. "It is proof t...Novel p53 gene-based therapy boosts immune system and reduces tumor size
...ent of cancer and other diseases. Introgen holds a licensing agreement with M. D. Anderson to commercialize products based on licensed technologies, and has the option to license future technologies under sponsored research agreements. The University of Texas System Board of Regents owns stock in Introgen. The...JAMA editors call for major restructuring of postmarketing surveillance system
...e agency that was responsible for approval of drug licensing and labeling would also be committed to actively seek evidence to prove itself wrong (i.e., that the decision to approve the product was subsequently shown to be incorrect.) One option worth strong consideration, as others have suggested, is to esta...HPV vaccine shown to 'substantially' reduce cervical cancer
...e III trial of the vaccine the last step prior to licensing the drug for general use is now underway at Norris Cotton Cancer Center and other sites, Harper said. "We hope these results will encourage women to sign up for this trial." She noted that Norris Cotton Cancer Center is the only Northeastern site ...Vioxx should have been withdrawn 4 years ago
... Horton states in an accompanying commentary: "The licensing of Vioxx and its continued use in the face of unambiguous evidence of harm have been public-health catastrophes. This controversy will not end with the drug's withdrawal. Merck's likely litigation bill is put at between US $10 and $15 billion. The co...IDSA recommends ways to strengthen HHS's pandemic influenza plan
...legislation to spur the research, development, and licensing of new vaccines and antivirals. Specific strategies worth exploring include market incentives, risk reduction, liability protections, compensation for injury, intellectual property rights, tax credits for research, and a guaranteed federal purchase p...Pediatricians need more training on environmental health
...ntified places in the educational systems, such as licensing exams and field work for nurses, where environmental health could be incorporated. The group also recommended that government organizations should focus on advancing children's environmental health issues. The study reviewed ongoing evaluations of me...Promising results for malaria vaccine trial
...m the preclinical testing of candidate vaccines to licensing and public availability. The current unprecedented...manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKlineBio, might succeed in licensing this vaccine by 2010. In any case, the road toward a safe and efficient malaria vaccine being availa...Vioxx: An unequal partnership between safety and efficacy
... editorial, which comments that more vigilant drug licensing is vital to prevent the endangering of patients' h...he safety and efficacy thresholds required for the licensing of a new pharmaceutical product. Clearly, this is an immensely complicated equation involving, among...Drug companies are top health care lobbyists
...re, including compensation for goods and services, licensing and oversight, and research priorities. The investigators found that a total of 1192 organizations were involved in health care lobbying. Individual organizations with the highest lobbying expenditures included the American Medical Association ($17...Center for Health Law and Policy presents symposium on developing innovative therapies
...ess of developing new technologies and instead are licensing drugs that are already on the market, in part because of complex federal regulations. These stories underscore the tension between two equally important goals: protecting the rights and health of citizens and creating a favorable environment for the ...Risks of HRT could have been revealed much earlier
...ls. If trials done by pharmaceutical companies for licensing purposes had to include adequate data on harms and ineffectiveness, we could learn much more quickly what we need to know about new drugs, say the authors. Regulators should require drug manufacturers to record adverse events and make the results pub...AGA launches Obesity and Nutrition Education Initiative
...ibution partners via co-branding, re-branding, and licensing arrangements. For more information visit http://www.healthology.com ....Handbook aims to help developing countries health research grow into industries
...luating intellectual property; a discussion of the licensing process and of how to use licensing to achieve public goals; spinouts and start-ups; licensing follow-up; and education and training nee...Hope for South Africa - at last
... antiretrovirals locally and cheaply via voluntary licensing agreements from larger, global drug companies; the signing of an agreement between South African government and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to provide a grant of US$41 million over 2 years for treatment and prevention of H...OneWorld Health licenses compounds from Yale, U of Washington to treat major parasitic diseases
...0,000 people in the U.S. are infected as well. The licensing agreement also creates a dual market opportunity in which the universities could seek a pharmaceutical partner to develop the same compounds for fungal infections in industrialized countries. OneWorld Health will conduct appropriate pre-clinical test...