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CDC Report: Only 23 percent of Flu Vaccine Showing Good Results

January 16, 2015 By June Harris

Flu Shot

This year flu vaccine failed to tackle the flu outburst in the United States.  Merely 23 percent of flu shots and vaccines fought against the infection, according to the Morbitidity and mortality Weekly Report

Generally, the work efficiency of the flu vaccine changes from one year to another. Since the past few decades vaccines used to cover nearly 50 to 60 percent of the flu strains.

This time, such a low proportion of effectiveness of flu vaccine has marked a new history. Dr. Alicia Fry, a flu vaccine expert at the Center of Disease Control and Prevention called it an “uncommon year” in terms of flu epidemic.

Earlier, the federal health agency had announced that flu vaccine would not be that much beneficial.  The health officials informed that a new flu virus known as H3N2 would probably infect a large number of people. The virus H3N2 emerged after a short time period of the creation of these flu drugs. Therefore, the majority of the available flu vaccines were not designed to remove the mutated strain.

Eventually, all the predictions of CDC turned out true. This winter season, H3N2 were responsible for two third of the illness in the United States.  The strain sent thousands of people to the hospitals. Children and people above 65 were the main target of the infection.

As per the reports of health agencies, around 2,231 people were hospitalized. The figures only include the data of five major states such as Texas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Washington

Additionally, CDC says it does not mean that flu shots are completely useless.  It is a misconception that January and February are the only month in which flu attacks. The flu infection can also affect people after the winter season.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: CDC, effectiveness, Flu vaccine, health care, performance

Ovarian Cancer Drug Failed the Third Test- Amgen Admits

November 5, 2014 By Cliff Jenkins Scott

Amgen experiment failed

Amgen Inc. announced that an experiment for ovarian cancer drug failed to demonstrate impressive results.

Trebananib expected to be utilized with Paclitaxel for the treatment of ovarian cancer.  Sadly, the drug failed to fulfill the expectations of doctors.

It merely increased a month in the lifespan of the ovarian patients. Generally, ovarian patient survive till 18.3 months, however the new drug mounted up the ratio to only 19.3 months.

The chief purpose of this experiment is to assess the safety and effectiveness of the drug. Moreover, the patients who participated in this trail complained numerous other problems such as edema, nausea, hair loss and alopecia.

Sean E.Harper, the vice president of Research and Development at Amgen informed that the company had really high hopes with trebananib.

Moreover, Harper notified that it was the second stage of the three phases of the trail. Although the experiment failed but still the firm intends to carry on the trial.

In the first stage test the drug demonstrated significant results. It decreased the development of the disease and boosted up the survival of the patients.

Furthermore, the company stated that shortly it would present the data for publication in a medical journal.

The data demonstrates that nearly 14,000 women die with ovarian cancer every year in the United States.  Unfortunately, majority of the patients are diagnosed at the last stage of the disease.

Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Amgen, effectiveness, lifespan, Ovarian cancer, patient, Research and Development department, safety, side effects, Trebananib

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