Summary Box: Johnson & Johnson buying Crucell for $2.41 billion

Summary Box: Johnson & Johnson buying Crucell

Whooping cough in California has infected 4,000 and killed 9; infections continue to rise

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CDC: Overall toddler vaccination rates are good, but a decline in measles shots a concern

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AMA, other groups remind health providers: Pregnant women need flu shots

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Pediatricians endorses mandatory flu vaccinations for doctors, nurses, other health workers

Group backs mandatory flu vaccinations for doctors

WHO official: Faster, more vaccine production needed for next flu pandemic

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European Medicines Agency investigates if there’s a link between swine flu shot, narcolepsy

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World Health Organization opens path for international procurement of Pfizer’s Prevenar 13

WHO gives Pfizer vaccine nod for int’l procurement

3 biggest US drug chains sell flu shots months earlier; feds have advised for all but newborns

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Delaware pediatrician accused of serial pedophilia may also have given patients bad vaccines

Accused Del. doctor may have given bad vaccines

Summary Box: After 16 pct vaccine sales jump in 2009, strong growth forecasted in next 5 years

Summary Box: Vaccines sales seen keeping momentum

Report: Vaccine sales jumped 16 percent in 2009, will keep growing fast, led by kids’ shots

Vaccine sales up 16 pct in 2009, still growing

US doctors told to avoid 1 flu shot brand for kids because of fever, convulsions in Australia

Docs told to avoid 1 flu shot brand for small kids

Danish company delivers 1 million doses of next-generation smallpox vaccine to US stockpile

Next-generation smallpox vaccine being stockpiled

AP IMPACT: 40 million doses of expired swine flu vaccine to be burned; $260 million lost

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Foreign visitor to Wal-Mart meeting hospitalized; Ark Health Department investigating

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European authorities say GSK’s Rotarix vaccine is safe despite presence of pig virus

European authorities say Rotarix is safe

LONDON — The European Medicines Agency said the unexpected presence of a pig virus in GlaxoSmithKline’s Rotarix vaccine poses no threat and should continue to be used, the drugmaker said Friday.

Albuquerque woman alleges human papillomavirus vaccine Gardasil injured teenage daughter

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Tajikistan to start polio vaccination campaign to combat outbreak

Tajikistan to start polio vaccination campaign

CDC: Record number of Americans got seasonal flu shots; fear of swine flu contributed

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AIDS vaccine researcher in South Africa for conference says recent strides give new hope

AIDS vaccine researcher hopeful

JOHANNESBURG — A leader in the search for a vaccine against HIV, which causes AIDS, said Friday that recent advances have given scientists new reason for hope.

Merck, expanding vaccine line, reaches deal for US distribution of tetanus, diphtheria shot

Merck inks deal on tetanus, diphtheria vaccine

Experts say autism bowel disease posited by flawed study that caused heath scare may not exist

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CDC surveys find swine flu vaccination rates highest in New England, lowest in the South

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CDC renews push for swine flu vaccinations; cites increase in hospital cases in Georgia

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Cuba to vaccinate more than 1.1 million against swine flu, reversing previous stance

Cuba to vaccinate more than 1.1M against swine flu

FDA says don’t use Glaxo diarrhea vaccine, citing no safety risk but puzzling contamination

FDA suspends Glaxo rotavirus vaccine as precaution

Swine flu vaccine mostly went to at-risk people, US says; but records are incomplete

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Vaccine group seeks $4.3 billion from donors to ramp up immunization campaign for world’s poor

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China probes vaccines after news report of deaths, illnesses in northern province

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Special court rejects claims that vaccines with mercury preservative caused autism

Court says thimerosal did not cause autism

1 in 4 parents believes unproven vaccine-autism link, but most do what doctor says is best

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Influential federal panel recommends annual flu shots for virtually all Americans

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Novavax presents swine flu vaccine data at WHO conference, larger study in progress

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With swine flu vaccine now abundant, health departments get creative to lure people in

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Summary Box: Merck studies find Gardasil vaccine blocks HPV virus in women over 26, gay men

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Merck: Studies show Gardasil vaccine protects older women, gay men from genital cancers, warts

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Report: About 40 percent of cancers can be prevented with lifestyle changes, vaccines

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British medical journal retracts flawed 1998 study that linked measles vaccine to autism

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The Lancet medical journal retracts flawed autism study originally published in 1998

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Gates: Foundation will give $10 billion to research, deliver vaccines for world’s poor

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Gates says foundation will give $10 billion to research, deliver vaccines for world’s poor

Bill Gates makes $10 billion vaccines pledge

Drugmaker Pfizer to focus on 6 research priorities, dump 100 compounds, as it integrates Wyeth

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CDC: About 1 in 5 Americans vaccinated against swine flu; death count now above 11,000

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Serbia to stop importing swine flu vaccines because of lack of demand

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