Topic: Food and Drug Administration

Thimerosal is one of the most controversial additives found in modern vaccines. Other than flu vaccines, Thimerosal is not used for any vaccine given to children under the age of six in the United States since 2001. The Food and Drug Administration ...
The FDA approved the H1N1 flu vaccine, which will be sold within the next few weeks. The US stopped updating the numbers simply because there is not much to count. Every year between 36 and 40 thousand of people die from flu ...
This week I am traveling attending a quarterly commission meeting for law enforcement to review training standards, examinations, and overall effectiveness of various programs. To provide some real life application many servers, cooks, and custodians that work at local restaurants do not ...

Vaccine myths

There has been a lot of conversation of late about the swine flue vaccine, or the H1N1 vaccine, and whether or not it is safe. According to the FDA there is no vaccine that is completely safe, they all pose a certain ...

Swine (Mexican pig) flu

"In days of influenza (epidemic) it is imprortant if You are searching internet to know how 'pig influenza' is translated in various languages, so here is a small list of translations of "pig influenza" so You can continue Your local google searching ...
The flu vaccines approved for the 2010-11 season protect against three strains of influenza, including the 2009 H1N1 pandemic swine flu strain, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Friday.. Because the 2009 H1N1 virus emerged after production had started on last ...

A.M. Vitals: Avandia Panel Member a Paid Speaker for GSK

Three members of the FDA advisory committee that last week considered Avandia voted to keep the drug on the market with no further restrictions - and one of them is a paid speaker for the diabetes drug's manufacturer, GlaxoSmithKline, the WSJ reports. ...

Health Highlights: July 1, 2010

If that's the case, it means that more than 43 percent of the total supply of swine flu vaccine for the U.S. public will have gone to waste . The U.S. obtained about 162 million doses of swine flu vaccine for the ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a new test that uses molecular biology techniques to diagnose 2009 H1N1 influenza virus infection in humans.. The new test replaces a former test developed with limited H1N1 specimens and authorized by the FDA ...
FDA clears H1N1 test from Focus Diagnostics under traditional approval systemThe Food and Drug Administration says it has approved the first diagnostic test for 2009 swine flu under its traditional approval system.The FDA previously cleared several tests on a limited basis for ...
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