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A vaccine developed some time ago to prevent HIV infections turns out to have beneficial effects on patients who already got infected as well. This is the first compound found to put a strain on the virus at a genetic level.
Details of the new study appear in the September 10 online issue of the top scientific jour... |
10 September 2012
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A type of polymer called polyethyleneimine (PEI) can apparently act as an adjuvant to antiviral vaccines, eliciting a more intense response from the immune system, and providing more protection against future infections. The finding was made by researchers at the Oxford University, in the UK.The chemical was thus far... |
27 August 2012
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According to Australian researchers, the former version of the whooping cough vaccine was better at protecting patients against the condition than the newest version. The data experts used were collected during a 3-year epidemic, and then 9 years later.
Scientists mostly focused their attention on small children. T... |
1 August 2012
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Investigators at the Arizona State University (ASU), in Tempe, say that they are currently working on developing a new class of synthetic vaccines. When completed, the new substances will be significantly safer and more effective than their counterparts today.
Using approaches characteristic to a field of research ... |
26 July 2012
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Based on highly-questionable religious grounds, some schools in the United Kingdom are denying their female students access to a cervical cancer vaccine that could one day save their lives. The situation echoes a similar stance taken by some indoctrinated schools and parents in the United States. The vaccine in quest... |
19 July 2012
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Scientists are reporting an unusual condition among chicken grown in Australia. They say that the viruses introduced in the poultry in small amounts, as part of a vaccination campaign, appear to have recombined inside the animals, leading to a severe type of infection. As the new organism starts to attack the chicke... |
14 July 2012
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Though we now have access to numerous vaccines against a wide range of diseases, there are still conditions (both infectious and chronic) that cannot be addressed via the type of immune system activation that regular vaccines trigger. Now, experts take a critical step forward in addressing this situation. Over the p... |
5 July 2012
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Making it easier for people to quit tobacco, nicotine and cigarettes could result in millions renouncing the habit within a very short time frame. A lot of people are afraid of the period of adaptation they need to undergo in order to quit smoking. A vaccine could help in this regard, experts say. A team of scientis... |
28 June 2012
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The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation recently made public its decision to invest in the health of children living in remote areas of the globe. Given the living conditions in these areas, the toddlers living here require regular vaccination so as to have an up-and-running immune system.
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30 May 2012
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Seasonal flu vaccinations may soon become a thing of the past, thanks to a study being conducted at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Canada. Experts here say that they are very close to creating a universal flu vaccine.
If it works, this would represent the first time that such a vaccine is obtained. Th... |
8 May 2012
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With a $1 million grant from the Renaissance Health Service Corporation (RHSC), experts at the Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) are nearing the end of an effort to discover a cure for Hansen's Disease, an ancient condition also known as leprosy.
This disease has been with our species longer than mos... |
8 March 2012
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After a scientific investigation that lasted more than a decade, researchers finally announce the development of a vaccine against hepatitis C. Until now, all other attempts at creating a working vaccine have failed, so the disease was classified as incurable. In an announcement made yesterday, February 20, at the ... |
21 February 2012
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A group of experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, says that its latest study on influenza's ability to mutate under pressure has revealed the phenomenon underlying it, called antigenic drift. The work could lead to the development of a final vaccine against the flu.
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20 December 2011
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In a paper published in the October 3 issue of the scientific journal Pediatrics, investigators determined that more and more parents have a tendency to delay administering recommended vaccines to their children. Some of the adults skip the procedure altogether, putting the little ones at risks.
Doctors have been... |
3 October 2011
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A group of experts at the Michigan State University (MSU) announce the development of a new vaccine against malaria, one that takes an innovative route towards destroying the parasite that produces the disease.
According to the investigators, the vaccine relies on the use of a disabled cold virus, which is augmen... |
26 September 2011
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Officials with the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) announced yesterday, September 21, that last fly season saw 130.9 million Americans get a flu shot. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urge all citizens to do the same for the upcoming flu season.
At this point, there is no... |
22 September 2011
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A study conducted on unsuspecting lab mice shows that the human papillomavirus (HPV) may play a role in allowing nonmelanoma skin cancers to develop faster than they normally would. The results are very troublesome, considering the widespread nature of HPV infections. Few people know that HPV vaccines exist, and that... |
20 July 2011
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A collaboration of American investigators say that it discovered a part of a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) protein that may hamper with the microorganism's ability to adapt and evolve. Being able to do this is one of the main advantages that the virus has in its race against human vaccine designers. The age... |
21 June 2011
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A team of experts in the United Kingdom, at the University of Leeds, announces the development of a new vaccine, that they say could be used to treat cancer. The chemical was produced by using a large DNA library, the investigators explain.Details of the research were recently published in the top journal Nature Medi... |
20 June 2011
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Every year, thousands of people in hospitals around the world get infected with opportunistic microorganisms such as the Clostridium difficile bacterium. The effects of these hospital-acquired infections even lethal, but a new vaccine against the organism may be on its way.One of the things that need to be kept in mi... |
30 May 2011
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The efficiency of vaccines aimed at destroying bacteria that cause meningitis has caused the incidence rates of this condition to drop sharply over the past decade, much to the relief of doctors and parents.Pediatricians, for example, were worried sick that a kid running a high fever was suffering from meningitis jus... |
26 May 2011
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Experts report important progress in their work to synthesize a vaccine that would help people using drugs put their addiction to methamphetamine behind them. Such a wonder drug has been sought for for years, but thus far experts only had limited success, on only a few promising leads. At this point, the work is conf... |
12 May 2011
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In the near future, cat allergies will be all but gone from the general population. Researchers are already reporting positive, encouraging results in preliminary tests, which show that the substance they are working with is harmless when injected to humans. According to a recent paper describing the advancement, the... |
5 April 2011
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An early-phase, preliminary study conducted by investigators at the University of California in Los Angeles Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center revealed that administering a personalized dendritic cell vaccine to each patient suffering from glioblastoma increases their median survival time. Glioblastoma is an incurab... |
22 March 2011
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One of the most efficient methods of preventing the spread of highly-contagious and deadly diseases through the Third World and beyond is to vaccination a large portion of the population in mass. The findings are detailed in two research paper, that appear in the January issue of the esteemed open-access journal PLoS... |
27 January 2011
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At a recent conference, investigators presented a new study, showing that very few of the women who are eligible to receive the HPV vaccine actually go on to take the shot. This happens in spite of public health campaigns, and numerous evidence to support the effectiveness of the vaccine. The issue is not with the wo... |
10 November 2010
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A new approach currently undergoing study could finally allow experts to create universal flu vaccines, which means that people may take a vaccine against the pathogen once, and then not worry about getting sick for years. At this point, people who want to stay protected need to take a dose of flu vaccines every year... |
19 October 2010
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A team of experts in the United States announces the development of a new mathematical model, that can be used to better inform national authorities about how they should stockpile vaccine. This is basically a creative version of a classic engineering technique, that is aimed at identifying the best possible ways to ... |
10 September 2010
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A team of investigators from the Purdue University has developed an innovative component for drug-delivery patches, that now ensures a much wider palette of drugs can be administered via these devices.The new type of pump holds great promise for allowing experts to use “microneedles” for delivering healin... |
1 September 2010
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Over the past couple of decades, the incidence of allergy cases in the United States and around the world has increased considerably. Due to unhealthy diets, excessive hygiene habits, stress and other factors, immune systems become weaker and have nothing to exercise their functions on. As such, they begin attacking ... |
5 June 2010
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In a new investigation, which has been aimed at determining what factors influence parents in deciding for or against administering the HPV vaccine to their daughters, it has been found that parental behavior plays the most significant role. Things such as the openness to alternative therapies, the amount of physical... |
8 February 2010
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Malaria is one of the most dangerous diseases out there today, mostly because it can spread rapidly among the general population. Additionally, there is no cure against it at this point, and its consequences on the human body are devastating. Scientists have been struggling to find a solution to this problem for many... |
19 January 2010
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With the amazing possibilities opened up by the HPV vaccine, which promises a defense against cervical cancer in women, you would think that everyone would jump at the opportunity to safeguard their children against the terrible disease. Not at all, experts say, as many people are too ignorant, or too entrenched in t... |
14 January 2010
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Many news outlets and TV stations, talk shows and radio programs around the world have discussed exhaustively about the pros and cons of getting vaccinated against the 2009 A H1N1 viral strain. The swine flu is extremely contagious and dangerous, and poses significant risks to old people and children, as they have th... |
13 January 2010
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Scientists at the Harvard University were recently able to develop a new fingernail-sized implant that they say can treat cancer tumors inside mice models, in the lab. The cancer vaccine is loaded unto this substrate, which then carries it inside the body, the team details. Their achievement is the first such device ... |
26 November 2009
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Malaria is one of the conditions that have been completely eradicated in civilized countries, mostly through governmental efforts and investments in vaccination campaigns. But the condition may be on the rise again, as globalization permits more and more people to travel around the world on a daily basis. A new study... |
20 November 2009
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Containers at the nanoscale are nothing new, as they have been demonstrated for several years, but innovative, new applications and improvements appear almost daily. In a new research, scientists at the Washington University in St. Louis (WUSL) have managed to produce a new type of nanocage that is able to open and r... |
20 November 2009
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While the World Health Organization (WHO) is painting a dire image of the new influenza outbreak, there are voices that say the situation is not nearly as bad as official announcements would have it. Regardless of where the truth lies, the main question on everybody's lips now is whether they should be getting t... |
29 October 2009
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In a statement made today, October 12, Marie-Paule Kieny, the head of Vaccine Research at the World Health Organization (WHO), announced that the United Nations agency plans to start sending H1N1 influenza vaccines to the developing world as early as next month. Most of the drugs will be donated by big pharmaceutical... |
12 October 2009
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In the largest clinical trial aimed at observing the effects of a new, combo vaccine against the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), results were only moderately successful. Two older vaccines were combined in the current studies, so that scientists could assess their efficiency when working together. But the effort ... |
25 September 2009
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Perhaps the greatest problem with treatments available today for most conditions is the fact that they address the symptoms and not the root causes of the conditions. Analyzing the interactions of proteins, which occur at very tiny scales, scientists need powerful observational tools. However, not even the most advan... |
25 August 2009
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According to a new statistical study, published in the latest issue of the respected scientific journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, it would appear that at least half of all physicians in the US state of Texas do not recommend or administer the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to young girls below... |
6 August 2009
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Bacteria are the longest living organisms on Earth, estimated to have appeared around 3 billion years ago, long before anything else inhabited the surface or the oceans. They have remarkable adaptation skills, and are in fact the only group of living things that can survive virtually anywhere, from hydrothermal vents... |
6 August 2009
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A large, international effort, bringing together scientists from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, in Melbourne, Australia, and experts from the United States, Japan and Canada, has recently announced that it completed the first genetically engineered malaria vaccine. The serum contains a weakened version of the p... |
29 July 2009
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Vaccines are at this point the best defense we have against a large number of pathogens, but sometimes their biggest flaw is that their molecular size prevents them from reaching secluded places inside the human body, where viruses and other small microorganisms can easily penetrate. But those “safe places&rdqu... |
26 June 2009
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Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a contagious disease of the respiratory system, and it affects between ten and 90 million people each year. Of these individuals, nearly 600,000 die annually, which makes the disease one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the world. Despite the fact that the disease is cov... |
26 May 2009
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Scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology have finally managed to crack the enigma surrounding the reason why some people who suffer from eczema develop severe, and sometimes fatal, reactions to the smallpox vaccine. The research, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, was conduc... |
25 May 2009
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Harvard Medical School (HMS) experts announced in the Wednesday issue of the scientific journal Nature that they'd managed to create 3-dimensional constructs in the lab, using nothing but pieces of DNA for the job. Their structures have been made in intricate shapes, and rely solely on the acid's ability to... |
21 May 2009
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Experts from the Vanderbilt University Medical Center have managed to crack one of the most difficult problems in modern-day medicine, when they published a new study in the open-access journal PLoS ONE, detailing how the vaccine commonly used to fight tuberculosis (TB) could be augmented to boost its efficiency. Tha... |
20 May 2009
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Over the past century, the influenza virus has wreaked havoc in the human population all around the world, while at the same time leaving experts unable to devise a comprehensive cure to kill it off. Because of its unique structure, the viral agent can easily mutate, and does so from one season to the next, making th... |
28 April 2009
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