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8,000 low-income Americans to benefit STAMFORD, Conn., Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AmeriCares is rushing to deliver 8,000 more doses of influenza vaccine to free clinics and community health programs to stem the continuing flu epidemic. Widespread flu activity was reported last week in 42 states with seniors at the greatest risk, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While the number of flu cases is starting to decline along...
CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Beginning Wednesday at 9 a.m., MedSpring Immediate Care, a leading provider of immediate health care will offer flu vaccines free of charge while supplies last at their two Chicago-area centers located in Arlington Heights at 902 W. Dundee Road and in Naperville at 1190 S. Naper Boulevard. The Center for Disease Control continues to report elevated levels of the flu virus across the United States, and strongly recommends the flu...
QUEBEC CITY, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Medicago Inc. (TSX: MDG; OTCQX: MDCGF), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), announced today that Investissement Québec has agreed to a three year extension of the maturity date of its 2003 loan made under the BioLevier program. Originally, the maturity date of the loan in the principal amount of $15.3M,...
NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: INO) announced today that CEO Dr. J. Joseph Kim will present an overview of the company at RetailInvestorConferences.com. DATE: February 7, 2013TIME: 3:00 PM ESTLINK: www.retailinvestorconferences.com > red "register / watch event now" button This will be a live, interactive online event where investors are invited to ask the company questions in real-time - both in the presentation hall...
[ Watch the Video: Discussing New Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new vaccine considered to be the most advanced for tuberculosis (TB) among more than a dozen now in trials has failed its study. Researchers said they were disappointed by the results of the study, which showed that the vaccine offered little to no protection at all from TB. Nearly 3,000 babies in South Africa took part in the study, all of whom had already been...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Federal health officials in the US have issued a consumer warning about fraudulent products making unsubstantiated claims that they can treat, cure, or prevent the flu virus. “As the flu continues to make people sick – and even cause deaths – scammers are alive and well, promoting their fraudulent products to the unsuspecting public,” the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Friday in a statement. “These scammers...
BLUE BELL, Pa., Feb. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE MKT: INO) announced today that CEO Dr. J. Joseph Kim will present an overview of the company at the 15th Annual BIO CEO and Investor Conference taking place February 11-12 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Inovio PresentationFebruary 129:30-10:00 a.m. ESTA live and archived webcast of the presentation will be available on Inovio's homepage. About Inovio Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Inovio is...
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- While January was celebrated as Cervical Cancer Awareness Month nationwide, one Portland area doctor is using technology to provide additional access to women's health care check-ups. Women without health insurance, or who have high deductible health insurance plans, are now able to book and pay for their exams with Dr. Anita Muzik at a 56 percent discount. "Getting regular pap smears and physical exams are especially important for...
TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Facility of the Year Awards Judging Panel has named six Category Award Winners in the 2013 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA) program. The winning projects for 2013 were selected from 27 well-qualified entries and are located in Ireland, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120912/DC73253LOGO) "The FOYA program is about recognizing the pharmaceutical industry's...
CARLSBAD, Calif., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE) today announced the establishment of the Global Influenza Network, a partnership including scientists at a number of the world's leading government public health organizations, veterinary agencies and research institutes in a collaborative effort to increase the speed and efficiency of influenza monitoring and vaccine development. Members of the network are sharing tools, experience and...
Latest Vaccines Reference Libraries
Neisseria meningitidis is a heterotrophic gram-negative diplococcal bacterium best known for its role in meningitis and other forms of meningococcal disease such as meningococcemia. It is a major cause of morbidity and mortality during childhood in industrialized countries and is responsible for epidemics in Africa and in Asia. In the US there are approximately 2500 to 3500 cases of N. meningitides infections. Children under 5 are at a higher risk as well as people in the sub-Saharan...
Poliovirus, the causative agent of poliomyelitis and a member of the family of Picornaviridae, is a human enterovirus. It is composed of an RNA genome that is a single-stranded positive-sense RNA. It was first isolate in 1909 and was published in 1981. It is one of the most well characterized viruses and has become a useful model system for understanding the biology of RNA viruses. It infects human cells by binding to an immunoglobulin-like receptor on the cell surface. The three...
