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Apr 11, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – Saying a voluntary strategy is the best way to reduce the agricultural use of antibiotics and preserve the drugs' medical usefulness, the US Food and Drug Administration today released draft guidance designed to steer animal-drug producers, veterinarians, and farmers in that direction.
(CIDRAP News) – Stronger public health funding could stem rising spending on healthcare and not only improve the nation's health but also its economic standing, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report said yesterday.
Apr 10, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – Dutch export controls remain an obstacle to the publication of a study by Ron Fouchier, PhD, and colleagues on lab-modified, mammalian-transmissible H5N1 viruses, according to a National Public Radio (NPR) report today.
Apr 9, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – Reports of sporadic 2009 H1N1 infections and a few deaths in parts of India have sparked high-profile media coverage of the disease in the country, catching the attention of public health officials and vaccine makers, according to several media reports.
Apr 6, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – For the second week in a row, flu activity in the United States showed signs of decreasing, though it's too soon to say that the season has peaked, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an update today.
Meanwhile, flu activity in most European countries has peaked, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) said yesterday in its latest update.
(CIDRAP News) – The intravenous antiviral peramivir was used in close to 1,300 severely ill patients under an emergency authorization during the 2009 flu pandemic, but its impact and safety profile remain unclear, in part because of patchy data collection, according to reports and commentary published in Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) this week.
(CIDRAP News) – Lapses in health measures during the second season that the 2009 H1N1 flu virus circulated in England probably contributed to a heavier disease burden—marked by more deaths and hospitalizations—than during the 2009-10 pandemic, researchers reported today.
Apr 5, 2012
Apr 4, 2012
(CIDRAP News) – With the United States importing a vast river of foods and medicines from abroad, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other organizations need to increase their efforts to improve product safety monitoring in developing countries, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) said in a report released today.
(CIDRAP News) – Armed with lessons learned during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, government leaders in North America and Europe this week launched new guidance aimed at boosting preparedness for the next influenza pandemic.
(CIDRAP News) – A new laboratory study supports the long-debated view that airborne viruses play a role in spreading influenza and that N95 respirators provide the best protection against airborne viruses, with surgical masks affording much less.
