The hurricane came, and these newborns refused to wait out the storm
HOUSTON — Large swaths of South Texas ground to a halt as Harvey dumped dozens of inches of rain on everything in its path. Some schools are closed until next month. Thousands of flights were canceled. Travel was stalled for anyone without a functioning boat. But some things could not wait. Particularly, the arrival of […]Related:FDA cracks down on stem-cell clinics, including one using smallpox vaccine in cancer patientsDoes talcum powder cause ovarian cancer?Fewer antibiotic prescriptions are being filled, a new analysis finds (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FDA cracks down on stem-cell clinics, including one using smallpox vaccine in cancer patients
The Food and Drug Administration on Monday announced a crackdown on stem-cell clinics offering unproven and potentially dangerous treatments, including an operation in California that the agency said was using the smallpox vaccine on seriously ill cancer patients. U.S. marshals on Friday raided San Diego-based StemImmune and seized the vaccine, which the FDA said had […]Related:Does talcum powder cause ovarian cancer?NIH unit deletes references to climate ‘change’Tibetan Buddhism-based ‘compassion’ training for doctors targets burnout (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 28, 2017 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
FDA acts to remove unproven, potentially harmful treatment used in ‘stem cell’ centers targeting vulnerable patients
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took decisive action to prevent the use of a potentially dangerous and unproven treatment belonging to
StemImmune Inc. in San Diego, California, and administered to patients at the California Stem Cell Treatment Centers in Rancho Mirage and Beverly
Hills, California. On behalf of the FDA, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017 the U.S. Marshals Service seized five vials of Vaccinia Virus Vaccine (Live) – a
vaccine that is reserved only for people at high risk for smallpox, such as some members of the military. Each of the vials originally contained 100
doses of the vaccine, and although one...
Source: Food and Drug Administration - August 28, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
FDA acts to remove unproven, potentially harmful treatment used in ‘ stem cell ’ centers targeting vulnerable patients
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took decisive action to prevent the use of a potentially dangerous and unproven treatment belonging to
StemImmune Inc. in San Diego, California, and administered to patients at the California Stem Cell Treatment Centers in Rancho Mirage and Beverly
Hills, California. On behalf of the FDA, on Friday, Aug. 25, 2017 the U.S. Marshals Service seized five vials of Vaccinia Virus Vaccine (Live) – a
vaccine that is reserved only for people at high risk for smallpox, such as some members of the military. Each of the vials originally contained 100
doses of the vaccine, and although on...
Source: Food and Drug Administration - August 28, 2017 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Seeking the secret ingredient in the original smallpox vaccine
(Publicase Comunica ç ã o Cient í fica) Thanks to a secret vaccine ingredient as well as a net of worldwide researchers and successful vaccination campaigns, smallpox was finally eradicated in 1977. A new study entitled 'Revisiting Jenner's mysteries, the role of the Beaugency lymph in the evolutionary path of ancient smallpox vaccines' and published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, provides an in-depth investigation of the mysteries associated with the development of smallpox vaccine and is a rich and interesting account of how the vaccine lymph was spread worldwide. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - August 18, 2017 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Emergent BioSolutions to buy Sanofi ’s smallpox vaccine business for $125m
US-based Emergent BioSolutions has entered an agreement to buy the ACAM2000, smallpox vaccine business of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi for up to $125m. (Source: Pharmaceutical Technology)
Source: Pharmaceutical Technology - July 16, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
WHO (World Health Organization) Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research: Report of the Eighteenth Meeting
World Health Organization. 05/2017 This 58-page report summarizes the 18th meeting of the Advisory Committee on Variola Virus Research, held on November 2-3, 2016. The Advisory Committee reviewed the implications for its upcoming work in light of the 69th World Health Assembly ' s decision to have a substantive agenda item at the 72nd World Health Assembly in May 2019 on the destruction of smallpox virus stocks. It was also updated on continuing research projects using live variola virus for the development of diagnostic tests, animal models, smallpox vaccines, and antiviral and therapeutic agents. (PDF) (Source: Disaster ...
Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - July 10, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news
Fixing pharma's broken commercial model
Pharma is fast emerging from a golden era of high profit margins and a largely unblemished reputation that saw the industry ride the crest of a lucrative wave for many years.In recent year, the landscape has changed as leaner health budgets prompt payers to demand lower prices and greater value, empowered patients demand better care, and advances in medicines result in ageing populations with more complex and chronic diseases.Add to that tighter regulations around industry access to physicians, increased competition, a rise in generic medicines and the behaviour of a small number of companies causing scandals that have has...
Source: EyeForPharma - May 15, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katie Osbourne Source Type: news
Fixing Pharma's Broken Commercial Model
Pharma is fast emerging from a golden era of high profit margins and a largely unblemished reputation that saw the industry ride the crest of a lucrative wave for many years.In recent years, the landscape has changed as leaner health budgets prompt payers to demand lower prices and greater value, empowered patients demand better care, and advances in medicines result in ageing populations with more complex and chronic diseases.Add to that tighter regulations around industry access to physicians, increased competition, a rise in generic medicines and the behaviour of a small number of companies causing scandals that have se...
Source: EyeForPharma - May 15, 2017 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Katie Osborne Source Type: news
17th Century strain of smallpox retrieved from partial mummified remains of Lithuanian child
New genetic research suggests that smallpox, a pathogen that caused millions of deaths worldwide, may not be an ancient disease but a much more modern killer that went on to become the first human disease eradicated by vaccination. (Source: ScienceDaily Headlines)
Source: ScienceDaily Headlines - December 8, 2016 Category: Science Source Type: news
Smallpox, once thought an ancient disease, may have emerged in more recent times
(McMaster University) New genetic research from an international team including McMaster University, University of Helsinki, Vilnius University and the University of Sydney, suggests that smallpox, a pathogen that caused millions of deaths worldwide, may not be an ancient disease but a much more modern killer that went on to become the first human disease eradicated by vaccination. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - December 8, 2016 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Bavarian Nordic closes enrolment for Phase III study of smallpox vaccines
Biopharmaceutical firm Bavarian Nordic has completed enrolment for its Phase III study of smallpox vaccines, IMVAMUNE and ACAM2000. (Source: Drug Development Technology)
Source: Drug Development Technology - November 25, 2016 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Discovery's Edge: Foreseeing the future of vaccines
Since the first vaccine paved the way for the near-eradication of smallpox over 200 years ago, societies have looked to vaccines as a means to stop the spread of infectious diseases. Today the same concepts are being called upon for new disease threats including Ebola and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS),?and the continued reemergence of [...] (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - November 7, 2016 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
The Doctor's World: A Lieutenant in Eradicating Smallpox Remembers the General
How Dr. Donald A. Henderson, who died in August, turned a flailing measles program into a first in medicine. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - October 3, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D. Tags: Smallpox Vaccination and Immunization Centers for Disease Control and Prevention World Health Organization Henderson, Donald A United States Agency for International Development Source Type: news
As Of Today, The Americas Are Finally Measles-Free
By Sebastien Malo
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Americas has become the first region in the world to be free of measles, following a 22-year vaccination drive against the disease which continues to infect tens of thousands of people globally, the Pan American Health Organization said on Tuesday.
The milestone was confirmed after no cases of the highly contagious disease originating in the Americas were recorded in at least three years, the PAHO said.
“This is truly a historic deed,” said Carissa Etienne, director of the PAHO, which serves as the World Health Organization’s (WHO) regional off...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - September 27, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
