Climate-based model to predict West Nile virus activity
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University scientists are launching a full-scale study on the influence of climate on mosquito populations that transmit diseases such as West Nile virus (WNV) to humans. Funded by a $495,000 Global Programs grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the three-year project is a collaborative effort involving medical entomologists, climatologists...HIV, West Nile virus, SARS infections and thoracic transplantation
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, 2004 — Complications from infectious diseases, such as HIV and West Nile virus in heart and lung transplant patients, is the focus of a joint symposium at the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) 24th Annual Meeting held in San Francisco. When demand for organs continually outstrips supply, offering transplants to patients with infectious...Screening removes West Nile from bood supply
Screening of blood donations for West Nile virus by blood banks has likely prevented more than 1,000 transfusion-related infections during the second half of 2003, say researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They report their findings today at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases. ... ..."This is an amazing success story," says Susan Montgomery, a...SLU professor wins CDC grant to combat emerging infections, including West Nile
ST. LOUIS -- A Saint Louis University professor has received a $2.2 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study emerging viruses that could threaten the U.S. population....... Thomas Chambers, M.D., associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, will investigate over the next five years how "flaviviruses" a...NIAID opens innovative treatment study for West Nile virus
A clinical trial evaluating an experimental treatment for patients infected with West Nile virus (WNV) has begun enrolling volunteers at 36 sites nationwide, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health, announced today. This study is part of a larger effort by NIAID to develop new ways to prevent and treat the disease. ... ..."West N...Promising West Nile virus vaccine protects monkeys
Scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have created a promising vaccine against West Nile virus by replacing parts of a distantly related virus with proteins from the West Nile virus. The NIAID research team replaced proteins in a virus known as dengue type 4 with the corresponding West Nile virus proteins, creating a hybrid virus vaccine that protects mon...Mayo Clinic proceedings releases West Nile virus manuscript early to aid clinicians, public
ROCHESTER, Minn. -- As the peak transmission season of the West Nile virus reaches its midpoint, Mayo Clinic Proceedings has released via the Web a manuscript prior to publication, so clinicians and the public can quickly access the latest information on the disease....... "Given the recent proliferation of the West Nile virus, clinicians will likely benefit from a brief, well-organized review of...Two viruses team up in West Nile vaccine
U.S. government scientists have developed a hybrid vaccine that protects mice from West Nile virus (WNV) infection, as reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The vaccine consists of a weakened, or attenuated, combination of two viruses formed by removing key genes from dengue virus and replacing them with WNV genes. Researchers will begin testing the vaccine in monkey...Enbrel shown safe, effective in children and teenagers with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
. Enbrel® (etanercept) has been shown to be a safe and effective drug in the treatment of children and. teenagers with polyarticular juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), according to clinical trial results. reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. . . In this clinical trial, 69 children, ages 4 to 17, were injected with Enbrel® twice a week; 74. percent responded with mea.... Bone marrow transplant will be the first in the Pacific Northwest to be approved.for juvenile rheumatoid arthritis . . (PORTLAND, Ore.) -- Bone marrow transplants have proven to be effective.in the treatment of many cancers. Now Oregon Health Sciences University's.Doernbecher Children's Hospital and Kaiser Permanente have given approval for an.autologous bone marrow transplant to be per...ENBREL (Etanercept) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
. Therapeutic Breakthrough For Rheumatoid Arthritis Becomes First Biologic.Response Modifier Approved To Treat Children And Teen-Agers With JRA . .SEATTLE - ENBREL® (etanercept) was approved today by the U.S. Food and Drug.Administration (FDA) for the treatment of moderately to severely active.polyarticular-course juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) in patients who have.had an inadequate res...