News tagged with glaxosmithkline plc


Glaxo seeks OK to expand breast cancer drug use

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- GlaxoSmithKline PLC on Wednesday applied for approval in the U.S. and Europe to sell an existing breast-cancer drug as a first-line treatment.





Search results for glaxosmithkline plc


WHO approves Glaxo's swine flu shot

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline says one of its swine flu vaccines has been certified by the World Health Organization, making it available for donors to buy for developing countries.


GlaxoSmithKline taking pandemic vaccine orders

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Friday it has received orders from several countries to stockpile pandemic vaccine as soon as it gets the vaccine's key ingredient from the World Health Organization.


Jury orders Glaxo to pay $2.5M in Paxil case

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- A Philadelphia jury has ordered GlaxoSmithKline to pay $2.5 million over birth defects allegedly caused by its antidepressant drug Paxil.


Glaxo offers WHO 50 million pandemic vaccines

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline said it has offered to donate 50 million doses of a pandemic vaccine to the World Health Organization in the event of a global flu outbreak, according to a company spokesman.


Glaxo's swine flu shot may give kids fever

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The European Medicines Agency warns that young children given GlaxoSmithKline's swine flu shot may get a fever after their second dose.


Exciting discovery could 'stop cancer from killing people'

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (65) | comments 11

Metastasis is the ability of cancer cells to spread from a primary site, to form tumours at distant sites. It is a complex process in which cell motility and invasion play a fundamental role. Essential to our understanding ...


Briefs: Group presses for powerline broadband spec

Technology /

created Jan 12, 2006 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An industry group Thursday pledged to urge the continued development of universal specifications for broadband delivery over electric power lines.


EU regulators support pre-pandemic vaccine

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Feb 24, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The European Medicines Agency has recommended the approval of a vaccine designed to help people build immunity against the deadly bird flu virus.


WHO approves cervical cancer vaccine Cervarix

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 09, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The World Health Organization has approved a second cervical cancer vaccine, this one made by GlaxoSmithKline, meaning U.N. agencies and partners can now officially buy millions of doses of the vaccine for poor countries ...


Seasonal flu vaccine shipping early, demand up

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- The swine flu pandemic is spurring makers of seasonal flu vaccines to ship them to the U.S. market well ahead of schedule, and supplies are tightening as distributors and others snap up vaccine vials.



List of search results for glaxosmithkline plc