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C.H. Unnikrishnan 11:31 PM | October 28,2009
Aventis Pharma, an India-listed unit of French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis SA, is locked in a tussle over the vaccine with Novartis Healthcare Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of Switzerland’s Novartis AG
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Reuters 11:45 AM | October 24,2009
Sanofi said it has shipped 12 million of the 16.1 million vaccine doses the US government had received as of Friday
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AFP 12:45 PM | October 22,2009
The drugmaker raised its full-year sales forecast, as its new swine flu pandemic vaccines alone are expected to rake in up to 700 million dollar worth of revenues in the fourth quarter
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Saabira Chaudhuri 09:53 PM | October 21,2009
Of the 76 grants awarded to public health researchers globally, three went to Indian research teams
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Ben Hirschler / Reuters 03:06 PM | October 06,2009
149 million doses ordered since August, total now 440 million; implies booked orders to date worth around $3.5 billion; discussions continue with governments for further supplies
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Reuters 05:03 PM | September 29,2009
GlaxoSmithKline won support for its cervical cancer vaccine from an advisory panel to Japan’s Health Ministry, putting it on track to be the first to offer such a vaccine in the world’s second-biggest drug market
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10:18 PM | September 27,2009
Discovering an affordable HIV vaccine has a long and expensive way to go despite the recent trials in Thailand giving a rare chance of hope
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Mike Stobbe / AP 11:45 PM | September 18,2009
The nasal spray, called FluMist, is not recommended for some of the people most in danger of severe swine flu complications
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Lauran Neergaard / AP 12:02 PM | September 16,2009
The vaccine is made by Australia’s CSL Ltd, Switzerland’s Novartis, Sanofi-Pasteur of France, and US-based Medimmune
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Reuters 11:16 PM | September 11,2009
Trials also showed very few side-effects and all so far were minor
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Seema Singh 12:53 AM | August 21,2009
Research suggests the best way to contain the virus is by vaccinating schoolkids; model may not be relevant in India
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Maria Cheng / AP 05:49 PM | August 17,2009
The game begins with images of bedridden patients and graveyards; as the head of the fictitious World Pandemic Control, players pick a flu strain, and then monitor that strain’s spread around the world
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AP 04:00 PM | July 09,2009
UN agencies and partners can now officially buy millions of doses of the vaccine for poor countries worldwide
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AP 11:45 AM | June 12,2009
The firm has said that more than 30 governments have requested vaccine supplies, including the US department of health and human service, which placed a $289 million order in May
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Reuters 05:12 PM | June 10,2009
Sanofi-Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Solvay said their vaccine teams had obtained the new influenza A (H1N1) seed virus within the past fortnight, enabling them to begin the production process
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