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Idera Pharmaceuticals said early Wednesday that Novartis AG plans to terminate the companies' collaboration agreement on Feb. 21, 2010. The pact focused on the development of potential treatments for asthma and allergies. As a result of the termination, Idera will...

ET The Associated Press The World Health Organization has ruled out swine flu vaccine as a reason for the death of 41 people who had received the flu shot. WHO vaccines chief Marie-Paule Kieny said Thursday that investigations are continuing...

Novartis AG, the Basel health-care giant, on Tuesday reported progress from clinical trials of its influenza A (H1N1) vaccine. In clinical trials, a single dose of the vaccine, which is half the currently approved U.S. dose, "fulfilled immune-response criteria associated...

EU experts say some countries 'ambushe' by H1N1 Some countries have been "ambushed" by sudden severe outbreaks of disease and death from the H1N1 flu pandemic, and have gone over the top in their response, a European flu specialist said...

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The research – requested by regulators and keenly awaited by governments tackling the current H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic – should ease international concern about the provision of both vaccines and help accelerate vaccination programmes. It comes at a time when...

This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only...Novartis AG said Wednesday it plans to buy a majority stake in privately held Chinese vaccines maker Zhejiang Tianyuan for around $125 million, as the Swiss drug maker seeks to boost its...

As the number of people with swine flu rises fast, the authorities have been defending their immunisation plan which began this week for at-risk groups. Up to 27 per cent of the general public are expected to get vaccinated. The...

Mechanics Barbara Rothen-Rutishauser and Peter Gehr from the University of Bern and Michael Riediker from the Institute for Work and Health, Lausanne, worked with a team of researchers to study such effects. "Brake wear contributes up to 20 percent of...

U.N. vaccine stockpile for yellow fever, the WHO statement said. France's Sanofi-Aventis, Brazil's Biomanguinhos and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar are the three suppliers of yellow fever vaccine pre-qualified by the WHO for U.N.-wide use. Yellow fever infects 206,000 people...