News tagged with 'CDC'

Birth defects are associated with the use of nitrofurantoins and sulfonamides, two antibiotics sometimes used during pregnancy.

Eight states are recalling 546,000 pounds of ground beef after E. coli contamination was detected. One person in New Hampshire has died and two others are sickened from what is suspected to be the same contaminated meat.

When a study showed the more expensive N-95 respirator was superior over surgical masks, the CDC and Institute of Medicine quickly adopted the findings and made recommendations to hospitals. Now it's revealed the findings were based on faulty science.

Facing a lack of forthcoming information about the dangers and concerns of vaccines in general, and the swine flu vaccine specifically, a citizens' group plans a protest at the CDC this week as experts in immunization gather.

Three studies are looking at the small percentage of patients who become critically ill requiring ICU care. While the majority of cases are mild, the average age of those critically ill is remarkably young, in the mid-30s. The studies express the concern that there may not be enough ICU units available to accommodate patients who need them.

GlaxoSmithKline is bring home about $3.5 billion from its swine flu vaccines while the government protects drug makers under the assumption that vaccine production is not profitable.

A 14-year-old girl in Britain died shortly after receiving her HPV vaccine Monday. Drug maker, GlaxoSmithKline has isolated that batch of the Cervarix vaccine. Cervarix is a direct competitor to Gardasil (Merck) and is seeking U.S. approval. The Gardasil vaccine is also thought to be responsible for a number of deaths.

The mission of World Rabies Day is to raise awareness about the impact of human and animal rabies, how easy it is to prevent it.

Canadian researchers find getting a seasonal flu shot may double your chances of getting the swine flu. The results, yet unpublished, are causing a buzz in the public health community worldwide.

It is now thought to be possible one day to reduce the risk of contracting HIV with a vaccine after the largest clinical trial ever held cut the infection rate by 32 percent.

While more girls are getting the first shot of Gardasil in 2008 than a year earlier, fewer than one in five completes the three-shot series, reports the CDC.

The FDA has approved the applications from four vaccine makers, who plan to have nearly 200 million shots available by mid-October. The total cost to the U.S. government for the vaccines is more than $1 billion for some vaccines in multi-dose vials that do contain thimerosal.

If the Food and Drug Administration follows the advice of its panels, Gardasil could soon be approved for use in boys and young men.

1.8 million Americans could be hospitalized with half dying under the worst-case scenario outlined in a government report on the swine flu. The report is being issued as millions of swine flu shots are about to be delivered by drug makers, who are provided complete immunity for liability by the federal government.

If you were born in 2007, your life expectancy just went up to nearly 78 years, the highest it’s ever been, the government reports today.