by Research Team | Apr 18, 2015 | Health News
The company alerted U.S. customers Tuesday that the vaccine can lose potency over time and fail to adequately protect against some strains of the flu. The Flulaval Quadrivalent Thimerosal-free vaccine in prefilled syringes is designed to protect against four strains...
by Research Team | Apr 18, 2015 | Health News
California health authorities declared an end Friday to a large measles outbreak in the U.S. that started at Disneyland and triggered a broader debate about vaccinations. Disease detectives for months raced to contain the highly contagious disease, which surfaced at...
by Research Team | Apr 18, 2015 | Health News
A study suggested people with a body mass index of 30 or more fall into six categories: heavy drinking males; young healthy females; the affluent and healthy elderly; the physically sick but happy elderly; the unhappy and anxious middle-aged; and those with the...
by Research Team | Apr 18, 2015 | Health News
A measles outbreak that affected more than 130 Californians since December is over, the California Department of Public Health declared Friday. It has been 42 days since the last known case of B3 strain of measles, the equivalent of two successive incubation periods,...
by Research Team | Apr 18, 2015 | Health News
Five commercial turkey farms in South Dakota have now been infected with a bird flu strain that’s led to the deaths of more than 250,000 turkeys in the state and over 2.4 million birds in the Midwest. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant...
