Posts Tagged ‘vaccines’
Lyme disease vaccine trials show promise
STONY BROOK (US) — Clinical trials of a new vaccine for Lyme disease reveal strong immune response in 300 individuals with little adverse reaction. Continue…
Monday, May 13, 2013 15:58 - 1 Comment
Health & Medicine - May 10, 2013 13:37 - 0 Comments
Vaccinate mosquitoes to stop malaria?
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — Mosquitoes are deadly and efficient disease transmitters, but they also can be equally good at spreading a cure for diseases they transmit, such as malaria, new research suggests. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 6, 2013 15:25 - 0 Comments
Baby immune cells are born ready to fight
CORNELL (US) — Found in newborns, small populations of preprogrammed immune cells can fight specific pathogens that they have never encountered. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 18, 2013 11:58 - 0 Comments
To harness HIV, make it get ‘naked’
EMORY (US) — A new understanding of how HIV “gets dressed” in the human cells it has taken over could lead to new antiretroviral drugs, researchers say. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 15, 2013 8:22 - 1 Comment
By 2035: Keep pneumonia, diarrhea from killing kids
BOSTON U. (US) — Researchers say the goal of ending all preventable child deaths from pneumonia and diarrhea by 2035 is achievable. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 12, 2013 14:47 - 0 Comments
Immune system ‘trainer’ cells don’t quit
EMORY (US) — Follicular helper T cells, which are important for generating potent antibodies, stick around even after a viral infection is over, new research shows. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 5, 2013 13:13 - 0 Comments
New path may lead to better HIV vaccine
DUKE (US) — For the first time, researchers describe the co-evolution of antibodies and virus in a person with HIV whose immune system mounted a broad attack against the pathogen. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 5, 2013 11:21 - 0 Comments
Tweets against flu shots go ‘viral’
PENN STATE (US) — Negative tweets about H1N1 vaccinations spread more readily than positive tweets do, and if positive tweets add up, they may backfire and go negative, as well. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 3, 2013 11:46 - 0 Comments
How antibodies zap a mosquito-borne virus
PURDUE (US) — Seeing the mosquito-transmitted chikungunya virus pathogen at very high resolution while it’s bound to antibodies could lead to vaccines for the disease. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 29, 2013 8:33 - 0 Comments
Too many HIV patients also have hepatitis
MICHIGAN STATE (US) — There should be stronger safeguards in place to prevent people with HIV from getting hepatitis, too, researchers argue. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 18, 2013 10:17 - 0 Comments
Both heat and humidity predict flu globally
U. ARIZONA / COLUMBIA U. (US ) — Flu season and cold weather are usually thought to go hand-in-hand, but a new study links two types of environmental conditions to “influenza peaks:” cold-dry and humid-rainy. (more…)
Top Stories - Mar 13, 2013 8:14 - 1 Comment
Predict mutants to create universal flu vaccine
U. MELBOURNE / MONASH U. (AUS) — Researchers have found a way to predict and potentially stop the mutating cells of the influenza virus. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 7, 2013 13:53 - 0 Comments
Ouchless sugar needles deliver ‘dried’ vaccine
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON (UK) — A technique that delivers a dried live vaccine to the skin without a traditional needle could support the global fight against diseases such as HIV and malaria. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 29, 2013 16:27 - 0 Comments
Protein in skin T cells helps nix flu virus
U. MELBOURNE (AUS) — Scientists have found a new protein that protects against viral infections, including influenza. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 21, 2013 13:50 - 2 Comments
The dirty little secret for making better vaccines
U. TEXAS-AUSTIN (US) — A menu of 61 new strains of genetically engineered bacteria may mean better vaccines for diseases like flu, whooping cough, cholera, and HPV. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 11, 2013 14:30 - 0 Comments
To stop cholera in Haiti, vaccinate some—not all
U. FLORIDA (US) — Vaccinating less than half the population could shut down the two-year cholera epidemic that has claimed thousands of lives in Haiti since the 2010 earthquake. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 7, 2013 13:24 - 3 Comments
Can a new vaccine prevent colon cancer?
U. PITTSBURGH (US) — In clinical trials, a first-of-its-kind vaccine successfully prompted the immune system to respond to early indications of colon cancer in people at high risk for the disease. (more…)
Top Stories - Jan 7, 2013 10:39 - 2 Comments
People judge flu risk by cost of vaccine
TULANE (US) — Based on the price of medication, consumers make irrational inferences about their risk of getting sick. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 2, 2013 18:39 - 10 Comments
Is preservative in vaccines worth the risk?
EMORY (US) — Public health experts recommend keeping thimerosal, a commonly used preservative, in the global vaccine supply. (more…)
