GlaxoSmithKline, the drug company producing the bulk of Britain’s swine flu vaccine, said third-quarter pre-tax profit soared 23% to £1.91 billion as the firm cashed in from a boost in emerging markets and H1N1 drugs ... more
GlaxoSmithKline announced it had started to dispatch its swine flu vaccine around the world and said it has received contracts for 440 million doses of its pandemic vaccine ... more
More than 400 reports of Tamiflu side effects have been received since the start of the swine flu outbreak, according to the medicines watchdog... more
Healthy people in Britain have been killed by swine flu, as new figures reveal that up to 140,000 have been diagnosed with the virus in the past seven days... more
Pregnancy changes the immune system, so if a pregnant woman catches swine flu they are at a higher risk of developing complications such as pneumonia... more
Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline has already benefited from fears that there could be a flu pandemic. In the first three months of this year governments around the world ordered about £220 million worth of Glaxo’s flu drug Relenza ... more
Sound check: German industrial metal band Rammstein literally play with fire in their live performances - and now they are about to unleash their singeing spectacle on London. Watch out for your eyebrows
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