The FDA has approved the first “egg free” flu vaccine, cultured out of mammalian cells, instead of fertilized chicken eggs (FDA site)
|
November 30, 2012 |
0 
About the Author: Danielle Scheurer
Dr. Scheurer is a clinical hospitalist and the Medical Director of Quality and Safety at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina, and is Assistant Professor of Medicine. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, completed her residency at Duke University, and completed her Masters in Clinical Research at the Medical University of South Carolina. She also serves as the Web Editor and Physician Advisor for the Society of Hospital Medicine.
Categories
Related Posts
November 8, 2019 |
0Do you have a stack of journals piling up on your desk, beside your bed or in your email inbox? In 1950, medical knowledge was estimated to double every 50 years, but now the doubling time is every few months. At this rate, it is impossible to keep up with the literature, but a group […]
May 28, 2019 |
0This past year, I reviewed a lot of journal articles to prepare for the Updates in Hospital Medicine talk with Dr. Carrie Herzke at Hospital Medicine 2019. But for the last six weeks or so, I simply monitored the headlines to ensure there wasn’t a blockbuster finding that we would have to integrate last minute […]
October 8, 2015 |
0by Deepak Asudani, MD, MPH, FHM Whether it is the prompt and expeditious international collaboration to develop an Ebola vaccine, or tardy but promising development of the first anti parasitic malarial vaccine or the fascinating technology utilizing synthetic DNA for vaccine development against MERS, these developments promise to highlight significant strides in vaccine development for […]
Leave A Comment