NIAID seeks applicants to lead revamped HIV/AIDS clinical trials networks
... portfolio of clinical research in HIV prevention, vaccine and treatment. "This clinical leadership solicita...lexibility in NIAID-supported HIV/AIDS prevention, vaccine and treatment research," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "The current NIAID AIDS research...Academy meeting examines the vaccine & avian influenza crisis
...scientists working to produce genetically modified vaccine strains and what are the results of vaccine evaluation in humans? For many, it has become evident that strategies to improve the effectiveness...Researchers recommend vaccinating adolescents against whooping cough
...lia. "That's incorrect." A universal adolescent vaccine would be a good start to developing pertussis immunity in at-risk populations, said Dr. Forsyth. "Adolescents are at special risk" of contracting whooping cough, he added, because, without getting booster shots, the vaccinations they received as chil...Computer assisted standing orders improve adult immunization rates
...npatient ordering rates of influenza and pneumonia vaccine dramatically (approximately 50 fold) over non-remi...vaccinations and also had not already received the vaccine in the required time frame. For patients in the first group, the computer generated a standing orde...Computerized orders effective in increasing administration of influenza and pneumococcal vaccines
...hysicians in increasing influenza and pneumococcal vaccine administration for hospitalized patients, accordin...4 percent have not received their annual influenza vaccine and 38 percent have not received their annual pneumococcal vaccine. Computerized reminder systems in...Prevalence of human papillomavirus infection differs for men and women
...d be further explored for its implications for HPV vaccine development and for understanding the risk factors of anal cancer."...Jefferson scientists reveal how some types of rabies invade the brain
...e with those of a strain used in a rabies wildlife vaccine and discovered that certain parts particularly the glycoprotein cover on the virus surface are responsible for the virus's superior ability to attack the brain. They reported their findings this month online in the Proceedings of the National Acade...Millions who suffer from nut and milk allergies could benefit from Stanford researcher's test
...ed in humans. Umetsu cautions that the vaccine is not yet ready for human testing. "We still have to do additional studies to see if the vaccine causes unforeseen problems in animals," he said. But he has great hopes for an effective food allerg...Encouraging results from vaccine trial to reduce cervical cancer
...ial in this week's issue of THE LANCET shows how a vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) infection could...mised controlled trial to assess the efficacy of a vaccine containing HPV 16 and 18 in the prevention of incident and persistent HPV infection, associated cerv...HPV vaccine shown effective at reducing cancer-causing infections
A vaccine that could reduce cervical cancer rates by 75 perc...dy of 1,113 women in North America and Brazil. The vaccine against the most common cancer-causing strains of human papillomavirus was 100 percent effective at ...HPV vaccine shown to 'substantially' reduce cervical cancer
...School has shown extremely promising results for a vaccine against the most common causes of cervical cancer....The Lancet, Harper and her fellow authors said the vaccine has the potential to greatly reduce deaths from cervical cancer, one of the leading causes of cancer...USF neuroscientists awarded $1.1 million NIH grant to improve Alzheimer's vaccine
...ove the safety and effectiveness of an Alzheimer's vaccine in a mouse model. "This approach shifts the focus...immunized with an investigational anti-Alzheimer's vaccine shown to remove beta amyloid plaques that accumulate in the brain, thereby leading to nerve damage a...Senior citizens at risk for pneumonia
The recent flu vaccine shortage has focused attention on elderly people's risk for infection. Like the flu, pneumonia can also cause serious health problems for older people. More than 900,000 cases of community-acquired pneumonia occur each year among seniors in the Unite...News tips for Tuesday, November 9, 2004
...crease in artery narrowing (stenosis). Thus IL-12 vaccine blockade may become "a promising strategy for the treatment of atherosclerosis," the scientists said. 4:30 p.m. Abstract 3775 Women's coffee drinking may reduce insulin secretion marker in blood. Regular coffee consumption is associated with ...Longterm immune memory cells cells do not develop during chronic viral infections
..." Dr. Ahmed explains. "This raises concerns about vaccine strategies that use persisting antigen, because an...ent memory T cells," Dr. Ahmed says. "Therapeutic vaccine approaches that provide antigen re-stimulation during persistent infections may not allow the abilit...A key to pregnancy-associated malaria
... placenta may provide a promising new target for a vaccine against pregnancy-associated malaria (PAM). Salanti and colleagues show that the malaria protein VAR2CSA is displayed on malaria-infected cells that bind to the placenta, as they report in the November 1 issue of The Journal of Experimental Medicine...NIH awards OHSU $4 million biodefense contract to study tuberculosis
...te. Whether TB is drug resistant doesn't matter to vaccine development, so the team will work with the less-d...itopes that researchers can access when working on vaccine development. "This database will help us speed up vaccine development," said David Lewinsohn. The th...IDSA recommends ways to strengthen HHS's pandemic influenza plan
...ify--in advance of a pandemic--priority groups for vaccine and antiviral use, as well as containment methods ...isely. Specifically, IDSA recommends strengthening vaccine and antiviral distribution networks; investing in research to advance what we know about influenza a...Animal study suggests safer immunization approach to Alzheimer's
...e problems others have encountered in developing a vaccine for this terrible disease," said Neelima Chauhan, ...thod for treating Alzheimer's," Chauhan said. "The vaccine reduces the accumulation of amyloid proteins for at least four weeks, providing a window during whic......ults of a randomized controlled trial of a malaria vaccine called ME-TRAP are published this month in PLoS M...unteers to receive either two doses of the malaria vaccine or three doses of rabies vaccine, which acted as a control. This three-dose schedule is similar to t...