Nearly a decade on from the 2009 influenza pandemic, scientists are still trying to solve what is proving to be an intractable medical mystery: Did some of the vaccines used to protect against the new ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Mounting evidence of a link between GlaxoSmithKline's Pandemrix flu shot and a spike in narcolepsy cases among children in Europe is putting one of the vaccine's key ingredients, ...

A Chinese nurse inoculates a man with the swine flu vaccine at a hospital in Hefei, east China's Anhui province on November 10, 2009. China's health authority stepped up a mass vaccination campaign ...

Since August 2010, following widespread use of vaccines against influenza (H1N1) 2009, cases of narcolepsy, especially in children and adolescents, have been reported from at least 12 countries.

STANFORD, Calif. — In genetically susceptible people, narcolepsy can sometimes be triggered by a similarity between a region of a protein called hypocretin and a portion of a protein from the pandemic ...

HELSINKI, Dec 22 (Reuters) - A Helsinki court ordered on Thursday payment of indemnities to a new group of Finnish patients who were found to have caught the sleep disorder narcolepsy as a side effect ...

The WHO said that such sleep disorders, mainly in youngsters, had not been seen with vaccines in the past, and were more frequent in Sweden, Finland and Iceland than in other countries. However, the ...

A vial of pandremix, the A(H1N1) vaccine on a desk at the Sisli Etfal Hospital in Istanbul on November 2, 2009. Turkey began vaccinating medical workers today as the death toll from the A(H1N1) virus ...

A new study has uncovered evidence that most cases of narcolepsy are caused by a misguided immune system attack -- something that has been long suspected but unproven. Experts said the finding, ...

Narcolepsy may be confused as just being tired, yet to individuals who live with the disorder, it can impact practicall ...