The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in cooperation with departments and agencies across the Federal Government, announced two new efforts designed to improve state, local and community preparedness for an influenza pandemic, which can occur when a new strain of flu appears for which people have no immunity, and disease spreads rapidly around the world.
The best protection against pandemic influenza?a vaccine that is well-matched to the virus causing illness?is not likely to be available at the outset of a pandemic.
Hundreds of Indian activists protested in New Delhi against a challenge to the India’s patent law by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, saying the move could leave millions without access to affordable medicine.
An Australian pharmaceutical company Imugene Ltd. announced successful preliminary trials of a vaccine that protects fowl from bird flu.
A recent national survey conducted by Harris Interactive on “Pain in the Workplace,” illustrates the impact of chronic pain among employees and employers.
“In my State of the State Message, I pledged to reform our health care system to make health care affordable for each person, family, business, and for government”, said New York Governor Eliot Spitzer at the Rockefeller Institute of Government.
Frost & Sullivan has awarded the COMPAS software technology platform its 2006 North America Technology Innovation of the Year Award in the field of Cardiac Safety Analytics.
China has suspended the production and sale of an intravenously injected blood-based drug used to treat immune system deficiencies after users were feared to have contracted hepatitis C.
Award-winning physician John Abramson argues that clinical trials provide no evidence of lowering cholesterol in women and elderly.
US’ largest HIV/AIDS Healthcare provider says Pfizer?s direct-to-consumer ads for Viagra encourage recreational use and contributes to increased incidence of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) including HIV.