Is the vaccine industry ailing?
Recent shortages of vaccines, most recently the flu vaccine during the past winter, are not short-term glitches--they reflect long-term problems in the vaccine industry. A variety of social, legal and economic forces have caused pharmaceutical companies to withdraw their commitment to vaccines, accord...Politicians bury their heads in the sand while global flu threat mounts
...nted. A recent report in the BMJ showed that avian flu (called H5N1) is beginning to jump from human to h...g with an epidemic or pandemic of influenza. Avian flu is now a true threat to the world's population, Dr Higson concludes. Planning from world leaders to...Salk's legacy, current and future challenges to vaccine development topic of briefing
...e and safe vaccines for such viruses as HIV, avian flu and malaria, and for those unknown viruses that could easily sicken or kill entire populations. To commemorate the Salk polio vaccine anniversary, Pitt is holding a two-day symposium, "Remembering Polio: The History and Future of Vaccine Development....Study: obesity impairs immune response of mice, boosts chances of dying from influenza infection
...e 10 times as likely to die when infected with the flu virus. Four percent of lean mice died during the experiments, compared with 40 percent of the extra fat ones. The study, presented in San Diego Saturday (April 2) at an American Society of Nutritional Sciences scientific meeting, part of a larger exp...