Two Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston are working on a cocaine vaccine they hope will become the first-ever medication to treat people hooked on the drug. “For people who have a desire to stop using, the vaccine should be very useful,” said Dr. Tom Kosten, a psychiatry professor who is being assisted in [...]
Merck & Co., Inc. said it voluntarily recalled 13 lots of its Hib vaccine given to ankle-biters to prevent meningitis and pneumonia as quality control found production equipment may not have been properly sterilised.
Merck recalled 11 lots of Pedvaxhib [Haemophilus b Conjugate Vaccine (Meningococcal Protein Conjugate)], and two lots of its combination Haemophilus influenzae type [...]
AIDS vaccine researchers are worried about the future of their field after learning an experimental HIV vaccine not only does not work, but just might make recipients more susceptible to infection with the AIDS virus!
They are worried about their volunteers and the future of AIDS vaccines in general. And they are worried because they cannot [...]
Merck, the manufacturer of the quadrivalent HPV vaccine Gardasil, already being administered in many countries to girls as young as 12 to help prevent cervical cancer, has announced findings of a trial that shows it is also effective for women as old as 45.
The drugmaker announced details of an investigational study where Gardasil reduced the [...]
An emerging “superbug” that causes ear infections in children and is resistant to multiple antibiotics can only be treated with an adult medication, researchers report.
Two Rochester, N.Y., pediatricians report finding a multiple antibiotic-resistant strain of Streptococcus pneumoniae that caused ear infections in nine children in their practice over three years. The only antibiotic that was [...]
