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Glaxo's Vaccine for Rotavirus Receives Backing of FDA Panel  -  20 Feb 2008
Wall Street JournalMerck's vaccine has been on the US market since 2006 and federal health officials have been monitoring it for links to a rare bowel problem called

Shots for Grown-Ups  -  20 Feb 2008
Forbes,Merck's vaccine is a supercharged version of the chicken pox vaccine. In a trial of 38546 people 60 and up, sponsored by the VA and Merck, a single dose

Little hope in finding HIV vaccine, says Aids expert  -  Feb 18, 2008
CareandHealth (press release),...around Mother Nature and produce a vaccine that is effective but so far we haven't done that and the failure last year of the Merck vaccine was a jolt.

Glaxo's Rotavirus Vaccine Seeks to Clear FDA Hurdle  -  Feb 15, 2008
Wall Street JournalMerck's vaccine, RotaTeq, has been on the US market since 2006 and federal health officials have been monitoring it for links to a rare bowel problem called

Pneumonia deaths seen with Glaxo vaccine-US FDA  -  Feb 15, 2008
Guardian Unlimited,Last year, the label for Merck's vaccine was changed to include reports of Kawasaki disease, a serious but uncommon illness that causes fever and

UPDATE: FDA: Rotavirus Vaccine Effective, Appears Safe  -  Feb 15, 2008
CNNMoney.comMerck's vaccine is given in a three-dose series. The vaccine would also be subject to post-marketing safety reviews by the FDA and the Centers for Disease

Failure to find AIDS vaccine has researchers seeking new directions  -  Feb 5, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,Further evaluation of the Merck vaccine study results has yet to pinpoint why it didn't work, but researchers have uncovered a surprising clue as to why

Merck Aids Failure Signals Doom for African, US HIV Projects  -  Jan 30, 2008
BloombergThe Merck vaccine was the most advanced of several preventatives against HIV, the AIDS-causing virus infecting more than 33 million people worldwide.

House panel backs cervical cancer vaccine bill  -  Feb 7, 2008
Louisville Courier-Journal,..."Negative side effects of Gardasil, a new Merck vaccine to prevent the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, are being reported in the

CROI: AIDS vaccine: additional infection risk restricted to ...  -  Feb 5, 2008
Aidsmap,We should not be surprised the Merck vaccine failed, he said, because strictly-designed monkey studies had already shown it was not protective;

CROI: HIV Vaccine's Mysterious Failure Leads to Call for New ...  -  Feb 7, 2008
MedPage Today,But last year's collapse of the Merck vaccine has left vaccine researchers dispirited and some calling for a complete re-examination of the enterprise

HPV Causing More Oral Cancer in Men  -  Feb 1, 2008
The Associated PressMerck's vaccine, approved for girls in 2006, is a three-dose series priced at about $360. It is designed to protect against four types of HPV, including one

Scientific Obstacles to Effective HIV Vaccine Frustrate Researchers  -  Feb 6, 2008
Medscape (subscription)He said no one should be surprised that the Merck vaccine failed, given the results from monkey trials. "There were no measurable protective effects of

AIDS researchers look for new vaccine  -  Feb 6, 2008
United Press InternationalThe San Francisco Chronicle said the failure of a Merck vaccine study that left some volunteers susceptible to HIV has led to calls for a pause in new

Merck recalls on million doses of childhood vaccine to prevent ...  -  Feb 15, 2008
AOL Canada,ATLANTA - Merck & Co. is recalling about a million doses of a childhood vaccine, after testing showed a sterilization problem in a Pennsylvania factory.

Can AIDS Vaccines Put Participants At Risk?  -  Jan 27, 2008
BlackvoicesShe was concerned that some of the people who volunteered for the Merck vaccine trial might be at greater risk for HIV infection as a result of having

Sexually transmitted Cervical Cancer Virus now causes Oral Cancer ...  -  Feb 2, 2008
HealthJockey.com,The Merck vaccine is currently designed to protect against 4 types of HPV including the one related to oral cancer. Spokesperson for Merck, Kelly Dougherty

Vioxx Charges Hit Merck  -  Jan 30, 2008
TheStreet.comMerck's vaccine sales totaled $1.1 billion for the quarter, including $339 million from cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil. Last but far from least,

Search By Symbol  -  Jan 30, 2008
RTT News,Gardasil, the company's cervical cancer vaccine, recorded sales of $339 million in the quarter, while sales of Rotateq, Merck's vaccine for protection of

Merck Announces 2007 Financial Results Reflecting Revenue Growth ...  -  Jan 30, 2008
Business Wire (press release),ROTATEQ, Merck's vaccine to help protect children against rotavirus gastroenteritis, achieved worldwide sales, as recorded by Merck, of $149 million for the

Sanofi Pasteur MSD claims Gardasil vaccine has greater benefits  -  Feb 8, 2008
Healthcare Digital,Sanofi Pasteur MSD claims its Gardasil vaccine has greater benefits than GlaxoSmithKline’s struggling new cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix.

NIH HIV vaccine program criticized  -  Feb 7, 2008
Bay Area Reporter,The number of people coming around to his views has increased dramatically since last September when the Merck vaccine trial was stopped because more people

Bridget M. Kuehn  -  Jan 29, 2008
Journal of American Medical Association (subscription),Several lots of the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine made by Merck have been recalled, according to officials from the US Centers for Disease

Most vaccines are safe, effective and necessary  -  Jan 22, 2008
Asbury Park Press,By Michael Amsel • STAFF WRITER • January 22, 2008 News last month that more than a million doses of a common vaccine given to babies were being recalled

The time has come to stop medical tests on primates  -  Feb 8, 2008
Guardian Unlimited,The dramatic failure of Merck's vaccine that was shown to actually increase susceptibility to HIV is a recent example. The most crucial breakthroughs in

NIAID Director Anthony Fauci Gives Merle Sande Memorial Lecture  -  Feb 12, 2008
UCSF Today,But he also noted the failure of a Merck vaccine and of new antimicrobial treatments. Toward the end of his talk, Fauci described how HIV invades the gut

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