Canadian Pharmacy Blog

An experimental vaccine has been found to be 100% effective in preventing the mortality associated with the human papilloma virus (HPV), now considered to be the cause of all cases of cervical cancer. It is expected that the vaccine will be marketed within five years. Cervical cancer affects almost 450,000 women throughout the world each [...]

Refrigerated FluMist live intranasal influenza virus vaccine (Medlmmune) has been approved. The vaccine is used to prevent influenza in healthy children and adolescents 5 to 17 years of age and in healthy adults 18 to 49 years of age. The new formulation, called CAIV-T (cold-adapted influenza vaccine-trivalent), can be stored in a refrigerator rather than [...]