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Today is Friday, Dec. 5, the 340th day of 2008. There are 26 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 5, 1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution,...

Towering displays of chocolate tortes and gooey pies. Winged ice carvings so grand they could anchor a town square. Elaborate butter sculptures, radishes carved into rose bouquets, watermelons carved into sailing ships -- all set up for crowds to...

Among viral infections that have reached epidemic proportions worldwide, hepatitis C ranks high on the list of public health threats because it lacks a protective vaccine, such as the one that has helped limit infections with its microbial cousin,...

Americans spend close to $2,500 on a typical summer vacation, one of the larger expenditures a family makes in a year. The fun of a great trip, however, quickly evaporates if there is a huge credit card bill to pay when you return home. Here are ways to...

The race to prevent a bird flu pandemic is on - several experimental vaccines and a drug made from a licorice-flavored cooking spice have snagged key roles. As the perceived threat of a pandemic intensifies, pharmaceutical companies are stepping up...

135 Duryea Rd., Melville, 11747 631-843-5500 www.henryschein.com Revenue: $4.3 billion Profit: $133 million Stock: HSIC (Nasdaq) Industry: Medical and dental products distributor CEO: Stanley Bergman Employees: 11,000; local, 1,000 In the end, it...

If bird flu erupts into a pandemic, the world will need a lot of vaccine in a hurry. That would be virtually impossible with the current flu-vaccine manufacturing method, which is little changed since the 1940s. Several companies have bird flu vaccines...

WHETHER he's strolling along a quay in Paris or mountain biking through rural China, Thomas Donahue likes seeing the world — and he wants to see more of it every year. What Donahue doesn't like, however, is the trail of credit card bills that can...

The company whose contaminated plant touched off last year's flu vaccine shortage said yesterday that it won't be able to make all the doses promised for the 2005-2006 influenza season, raising the possibility of another vaccine shortage this fall....

Though flu season is not over, a report by one Wall Street analyst suggests sales of FluMist, the nasal spray flu vaccine made by Gaithersburg-based MedImmune Inc., will again be dismal this year. Survey results released this week by the New York...

The University of Maryland School of Medicine and two other institutions next week will begin human tests of a vaccine designed to combat avian influenza - widely feared for its potential to cause the next global pandemic . The vaccine is designed to...

While the government has blamed only one company for unsafe production practices in the current flu vaccine crisis, federal records show health officials knew for years that vaccine makers were having problems meeting federal health standards. Since 2000,...