WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Continuing the aggressive response to the current swine flu outbreak, the CDC said all states will receive their full allocations of antiviral medications from the national strategic stockpile by May 3.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Denouncing many common practices in the medical community, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is calling for an end to dealings that foster cozy relationships among practitioners, researchers, and drug and device companies.
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CLEVELAND (MedPage Today) — The first U.S. victim of swine flu is a Texas toddler, Richard Besser, M.D., acting director of the CDC said today.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MedPage Today) — California public health officials confirmed that what was suspected as the first swine flu-related death in the U.S. was, in fact, unrelated.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The Senate voted 65 to 31 to confirm Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary, finally approving a leader for an agency that is facing an emerging public health challenge in swine flu.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — President Barack Obama is asking Congress for an additional $1.5 billion to prepare for a possible swine flu pandemic.
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TORONTO (MedPage Today) — The number of U.S. cases of swine flu continues to grow and officials suspect that not all are a result of travel to Mexico.
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CANNES, France (MedPage Today) — If the swine flu outbreak develops into a pandemic — and that’s a big if — the earliest the public would see a vaccine against the disease would be September, a researcher said here at the conference on Influenza Vaccines for the World.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Continuing the aggressive response to the current swine flu outbreak, the CDC said all states will receive their full allocations of antiviral medications from the national strategic stockpile by May 3.
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Ferring Pharmaceuticals has announced the launch of a Phase IIIB clinical trial of degarelix for injection, a new injectable gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonist approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of hormone sensitive advanced prostate cancer.
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