CHINA Bio-Immunity Corporation (CHHB) has announced an update regarding the nationwide recall of its rabies vaccines.
13/03/2009
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has welcomed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledge of US$10 billion over the next decade to accelerate global vaccine efforts.
08/02/2010
The Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization, which advises WHO on policies and strategies for vaccines and immunization, met in Geneva last week to discuss policies and strategies for the pandemic (H1N1) vaccine. The experts also made recommendations on the formulation of seasonal influenza vaccines for the southern hemisphere in 2010.
02/11/2009
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its information regarding how to use the CSL 2009 H1N1 monovalent vaccine. It has also issued guidance on dose spacing and administration with other vaccines.
23/11/2009
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has collated vaccination information from 16 of around 40 countries, including Australia, that are carrying out national H1N1 pandemic vaccine campaigns.
23/11/2009
RESEARCHERS at the University of Melbourne, Australia have identified a human vaccine against Bird Flu.
16/03/2009
The Australian Government has allocated a share of $108m to 15 medical research teams across the country.
10/02/2009
NSW Chief Health Officer encourages H1N1 vaccination
People are encouraged to have the Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination, states NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant.
06/11/2009
Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has been closely monitoring any side effects from the use of the Panvax vaccine since its approval for the national immunisation program.
24/11/2009
INTERVET is using BINDER CB series CO2 incubators in its labs to test its animal health vaccines.
16/03/2009
US researchers have devised a cancer vaccine that can be implanted on a finger-nail size disk and eliminate tumours in mice.
02/12/2009
PRIMA Biomed has secured $12m in funding to advance the commercialisation of the CVac ovarian cancer vaccine treatment product.
17/03/2009
The US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) has released provisional recommendations for Human Papillomavirus vaccinations.
04/12/2009
HIV-positive adults are being recruited to participate in a clinical trial of the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine. The US study will involve 240 men and women of 18 - 64 years of age.
14/12/2009
As at 31 December 2009, of the 6 million doses of Panvax distributed in Australia, there were 1289 suspected side effects reported to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) following vaccination.
01/03/2010
Menveo, a quadrivalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine from Novartis, has been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for active immunization to prevent invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroups A, C, Y and W-135 in people 11 to 55 years of age.
01/03/2010
Bayer has begun a clinical Phase I study to treat non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL) using a patient-specific vaccine derived from tobacco plants.
12/02/2010