WHO says study finds standard TB vaccine could kill babies with HIV

October 5th, 2009 Vaccine-like shots help fight cocaine addictionCHICAGO — Vaccine-like shots to keep cocaine abusers from getting high also helped them fight their addiction in the first successful rigorous study of this approach to treating illicit drug use. The shots didn't work perfectly, but the researchers say their limited success is promising enough to suggest the intriguing vaccine approach could be widely used to treat addiction within several years.

September 30th, 2009 Appeals court upholds dismissal of vaccine suitWASHINGTON — A federal appeals court has ruled that members of the military can be required to be vaccinated against anthrax. The U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld a lower court's decision dismissing a case brought by eight service members who challenged the Food and Drug Administration's determination that the vaccine was effective.

September 10th, 2009 Vical's swine flu vaccine works in mice, rabbitsSAN DIEGO — Biotechnology company Vical Inc. said Thursday its developing swine flu vaccine prompted "robust" immune responses in 100 percent of animals infected with distinct strains of the virus.

September 4th, 2009 LONDON - Phillip Garrido, the "American Fritzl", who held a girl captive for 18 years and fathered two children with her, may have had other children with Jaycee Lee Dugard - and killed them if they were boys, cops have said. A senior detective probing her kidnap, rape and imprisonment in California said: "It doesn't make sense that a healthy young girl not on birth control only conceived twice in that time.

August 31st, 2009 A look at states' legislation on an HPV vaccineA look at legislation passed or introduced by states and the District of Columbia since 2007 regarding the HPV vaccine. Several other states provided money for girls to receive the vaccine, either through legislation or the budgeting process.

August 18th, 2009 LONDON - A North African woman is due to deliver a record-breaking 12 babies this month, it has emerged. The Tunisian woman, in her 30s, turned to fertility treatment after suffering two miscarriages.

August 10th, 2009 8 cities in US line up for swine flu vaccine testST. LOUIS — Hundreds of Americans in eight cities are lining up for experimental swine flu shots in a race to get a vaccine out in case the new flu virus regains strength this fall and winter.

August 4th, 2009 Glaxo: 9 more countries order swine flu vaccineLONDON — Drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline says that nine additional countries have ordered 96 million doses of swine flu vaccine since last month. That is in addition to the 195 million vaccine doses and products previously ordered by countries including Britain and the U.S., for a total of 291 million doses.

July 21st, 2009 WASHINGTON - Babies can follow dogspeak, with little or no exposure to dogs, says a new study. Infants just six months old can match the sounds of an angry snarl and a friendly yap to photos of dogs displaying threatening and welcoming body language.

July 14th, 2009 SYDNEY - Taller men are able to earn more than their shorter counterparts simply because they are perceived as being more intelligent and powerful, according to a new study. The study 'Does size matter' used newly available data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to estimate the relationship between hourly wages and two aspects of body size: height and body mass index (BMI).

June 30th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Guilt-ridden working mothers can chill - a new study claims, while breastfed babies are held more and read to more, they sleep 40 minutes a day less and cry five minutes a day more than bottle-fed babies. The Australian Institute of Family Studies research revealed that full-time working mums spend on average 83 minutes less per day with their baby than stay-at-home mums, but the baby's father and grandparents make up for the lost mother time, reports The Daily Telegraph.

June 17th, 2009 Sanof-Aventis to give pandemic flu vaccine to WHOTRENTON, N.J. — The drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis says it will donate millions of doses of swine flu vaccine to the World Health Organization for poor countries.

June 12th, 2009 Novartis produces first batch of swine flu vaccineBASEL, Switzerland — Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis AG said Friday it has produced a first batch of experimental swine flu vaccine, a day after the World Health Organization declared the disease a pandemic. The vaccine hasn't yet been tested and cannot be used in humans yet.

May 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A British woman has given birth to six babies within the space of five minutes. The babies were conceived naturally and weighed between 1lb 7oz and 2lb 2oz.

May 9th, 2009 LONDON - In a bid to battle the declining birth rate, Japanese government officials are encouraging couples to procreate, insisting it is fun to have babies. According to an official report issued, the number of people under 15 years were estimated to have fallen for the 28th consecutive year to 17.14 million, making only 13.4 per cent of the total population.