BEIJING (Reuters) - China has promised severe punishment for officials caught concealing deaths from H1N1 swine flu after a medical expert said suspect ...
FDA panel says next-generation anti-bacterial vaccine from Pfizer works for children Federal health experts said Wednesday an updated version of Pfizer's best-selling anti-infection ...
GENEVA (Reuters) - A vaccine aid group said on Friday it was seeking $4 billion to protect as many as 130 million of the world's poorest children against diarrhea and pneumonia. Children in developed countries are routinely immunized against the bacteria causing ...
Drugmaker Merck posts slight rise in 3Q sales, but big profit jump due to animal health sale Drugmaker Merck & Co. on Thursday posted a bigger profit in the third quarter due to slightly higher sales and a huge gain from selling ...
As the swine flu outbreak strikes the U.S. early and hard, health officials note a worrisome number of child deaths and warn that supplies of vaccine will remain scarce for at least the next couple of weeks. Delays in producing the vaccine ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Drinking green tea continues to show health benefits, particularly among women, hints a new study from Japan. Drinking five or more cups a day cut the risk by "47 percent in Japanese women," but not Japanese men, ...
Many people who have died from swine flu in the United States were also infected with other bacteria, including one which can cause pneumonia or meningitis, US health officials said Wednesday. Scientists who analyzed the cases of 77 patients who had the ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Many people who have died of H1N1 swine flu in the United States have also had bacterial infections, health officials reported on Wednesday. A study of 77 patients who died of the new pandemic H1N1 virus showed 29 percent ...
Wyeth says European Union committee gives positive opinion on Prevenar 13 vaccine Wyeth said Friday European Union regulators are recommending approval for a new version of its children's pneumococcal vaccine, Prevenar 13. The Madison, N.J., company said the Committee for Medicinal Products ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than a million children die every year from two pneumonia-causing diseases easily prevented with vaccines, researchers reported on Thursday. Each year 1.2 million children under age 5 die from Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae B or Hib, they ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Childhood deaths have declined across the world, data released on Thursday showed, but mortality is increasingly concentrated in poor countries. A study by the United Nation's children's fund (UNICEF) showed that thanks to better prevention methods for malaria and ...
Japan has confirmed two more swine flu-related deaths, bringing the number of fatalities linked to the virus in the country to five. Health officials say a 74-year-old women with swine flu and other illnesses died Thursday of acute pneumonia in the central ...
