On Jul. 13, 2010, Bavarian Nordic announced that it had delivered 1 million doses of its smallpox vaccine…
On Mar. 23, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that physicians temporarily suspend use of…
On Mar. 19, 2010, the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee (ACIP) recommended use of a reduced (4-dose) vaccine schedule…
On Mar. 10, 2010, National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NWGHAAD) was established as a nationwide initiative…
On Feb. 24, 2010, a 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13 [Prevnar 13, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Pfizer])…
On Feb. 19, 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it had licensed a quadrivalent meningococcal…
On Jan. 29, 2010, the Bill and Melinda Gates announced that their foundation will commit $10 billion over…
On Jan. 12, 2010, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the 7.0 magnitude…
On Dec. 3, 2009, the Thai HIV vaccine clinical trial results were published in the New England Journal…
On Nov. 16, 2009, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended a single dose of…
On Oct. 21, 2009, Merck announced that the company will not resume production of monovalent measles, mumps, and…
On Oct. 16, 2009, GlaxoSmithKline announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved Cervarix [Human papillomavirus…
On Oct. 16, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved new indication for gardasil to prevent…
On Sept. 15, 2009, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved four Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent…
On Jun. 23, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced advanced development contract for…
On Apr. 15, 2009, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of Washington (UW), along with…
On Feb. 25, 2009, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended routine hepatitis A vaccination for household…
On Feb. 12, 2009, the Vaccine Court ruled that MMR vaccine, when administered with thimerosal-containing vaccines, does not…
On Feb. 4, 2009, the presidents of the MGH, MIT and Harvard University announced the creation of the…
On Jan. 21, 2009, the Rotary International, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the British and German…
On Jan. 15, 2009, the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded Novartis a $487 million…
In 2009, Drs. Judith James and Linda Thompson at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation (OMRF) helped develop an…
On Dec. 19, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved changes in the schedule for administering anthrax…
On Dec. 4, 2008, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an expanded age indication for the tetanus…
On Jun. 15, 2008, Australia announced it had approved the first locally made vaccine to protect humans from…
On Jun. 5, 2008, the FDA approved the use of Sanofi Pasteur’s Tenivac tetanus and diphtheria toxoids adsorbed…
On May 22, 2008, the New Mexico Dept. of Health notified the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…
On Apr. 25, 2008, marked the first-ever World Malaria Day established by the United Nations to ensure that…
On Feb. 29, 2008, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it had begun distribution…
In 2008, the Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute of Florida VGTI Florida (VGTI-FL) was founded as an independent…