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The number of rubella patients reported by the country's medical institutions from Jan. 1 to Aug. 19 totaled 184, nearly double the 93 for the whole of last year, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Tuesday. Patients in Tokyo and three neighboring prefectures — ...
China to prosecute suspects at scandal-hit vaccine maker, confiscate illegal income
Chinese authorities will prosecute all suspects in a safety scandal at vaccine maker Changsheng Biotechnology and confiscate its illegal earnings, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. The company was accused in July of falsifying data for a rabies vaccine and manufacturing an ineffective vaccine for ...
Viral content: vaccine scandal tests Beijing's grip on information control
A Chinese vaccine scandal has laid bare a new challenge Beijing faces in its long battle for information control: blogs and online articles by independent writers capable of unleashing a storm of public fury. Outrage over safety lapses by Changchun Changsheng Life Sciences Ltd. in ...
China vaccine scandal ripples through domestic market, threatens push for larger global role
A vaccine scandal in China, which has hit a nerve in the country and prompted quick reactions from leaders in Beijing, is sending ripples across the wider domestic drug market while threatening to dent Chinese ambitions to play a larger global role. Shares in Chinese ...
Citizens are being needlessly left exposed to infectious diseases.
Health workers in Democratic Republic of Congo will begin a vaccination campaign on Monday aimed at containing an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, a spokeswoman for the health ministry said. Jessica Ilunga said 4,000 doses of vaccine were shipped on Saturday to Mbandaka, which ...
Suit opens in Tokyo court over cervical cancer vaccine side effects
Twenty-eight girls and women suffering what they say are side effects from cervical cancer vaccines that were recommended by the government demanded compensation from the state and drugmakers Monday as their trial opened at the Tokyo District Court. The plaintiffs, ranging in age from 15 ...
Human challenge: Vaccine volunteers clear dengue hurdle, target Zika next
Forget mosquito bites. Volunteers let researchers in the U.S. inject them with the dengue virus in the name of science — and an experimental vaccine protected them. Next up, scientists plan to use this same strategy against dengue's cousin, the Zika virus. It's called a ...
Drugmaker Kaketsuken raided over decades of alleged faked records, illegal additives
It comes to light that the contractor of a leaning condominium ordered the use of 14-meter piles, knowing that 18-meter piles were likely needed.
Vaccine to prevent high blood pressure shows promise in mice: Osaka University team
A vaccine to prevent high blood pressure was found to be effective in a new mouse study, with effects lasting about six months, according to a team of researchers at Osaka University. The study, led by Hiroshi Koriyama, was carried Wednesday in the online edition ...
Liberia begins clinical trial for Ebola vaccines as outbreak ebbs
Liberia began a trial of experimental Ebola vaccines on Monday, involving thousands of volunteers as part of an effort to slow the spread of the deadly fever and prevent future outbreaks. The epidemic has killed more than 8,900 people in West Africa since it began ...
WHO: Ebola vaccine trials possible in West Africa in January
Tens of thousands of doses of experimental Ebola vaccines could be available for "real-world" testing in West Africa as soon as January as long as they are deemed safe, a top World Health Organization official said Tuesday. Dr. Marie Paule Kieny, an assistant director general ...
