Vaccinating children protects adults as well
ATLANTA -- March 2, 2004 --Since the approval of a vaccine against pneumococcal bacteria for young children i..."We were pretty confident when we recommended this vaccine for children it would help them," says Cynthia Whitney, a researcher on both studies. "What was a p...Vaccine nips breast cancer in the bud
...ues from the University of Turin, Italy, evaluated vaccine strategies for treating neoplastic lesions. The authors designed a combined approach consisting of a primary vaccination with plasmids encoding portions of the oncogenic protein rp185neu and a booster vaccination one week later with cells expressing ...Targeted antiviral prophylaxis of flu case contacts could successfully contain pandemic influenza
...of people during the 20th century, supplies of flu vaccine might not be available quickly enough to contain t... suspected cases of flu until adequate supplies of vaccine could be manufactured and distributed. The results of the research by Emory professors of biostatist...Int'l Assoc for Dental Research holds 83rd General Session
...l-being?that researchers are making the case for a vaccine against dental caries?...and that our genetic profile (not clinical appearance) may help determine how a tumor is treated? These are but a few of the thousands of pieces of information which will be presented when the International Association for D...Texas nonprofit corporation launches vaccine information service
...rganizations. NNii reviews the latest research on vaccine safety and provides comprehensive summaries of hot topics in immunization for the lay audience in the U.S. Until recently, NNii operated from the offices of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (one of its affiliate organizations) in Alexandria...Scientists find HIV-blocking protein in monkeys
...e discovery could also shorten the path to an AIDS vaccine by making improved animal models of HIV disease po...sceptible to the human version of AIDS, results of vaccine trials conducted on them are not directly applicable to humans. Now with a better understanding of w...Vaccine shows promise for kidney cancer
...ss issue of THE LANCET suggest that a tumour-based vaccine could reduce disease recurrence and increase survi...randomised to receive autologous renal tumour cell vaccine (six injections in the upper arm at 4-week intervals after surgery; the vaccine group) or no additio...Vaccine development against influenza A (h5n1) virus 'should be made a priority'
...uthors draw our attention to the need to develop a vaccine against the virus. In a Commentary (p 582), Maria Zambon (Health Protection Agency, UK) states that influenza A transmission from animals to humans remains a rare event, but one which history teaches us we must take seriously to avoid a further pa...Protein helps immune system mount 'instant strike' against deadly flu viruses
...ike the avian flu. The researchers believe that a vaccine made with a live but weakened strain of flu virus such as the inhaled flu vaccine introduced last year may activate this part of the immune system and offer the best defense against...Report finds inactivated influenza virus vaccines effective in children
...ts of multiple studies on the effects of influenza vaccine on children, indicates that "killed" influenza vaccine is a safe and effective method to reduce the rate of influenza in children as young as 6 months old....Effectiveness of chickenpox vaccine decreases after one year
CHICAGO The effectiveness of the chickenpox vaccine decreases significantly in the first year after vaccination, and also appears lower if the vaccine is administered to children younger than 15 months of age, according to a study in the February 18 i...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February 2004 (second issue)
...ildren were positive for influenza, with 24 in the vaccine group and 18 in the placebo group--a 33 percent difference. The authors said that the influenza-related asthma exacerbations they detected were all of similar severity. They study's young participants were recruited through family physicians in the...Targeting cell fusion as possible way to repair organs, deliver cancer vaccines
...ent cancer from progressing or developing. Current vaccine approaches involve taking dendritic cells from cancer patients, feeding the dendritic cells tumor antigens, and then reintroducing the dendritic cells into the patient's body and relying on the body's natural process of "instruction" to help the body...Clinical trial of new TB vaccine begins
... clinical trial of a live recombinant tuberculosis vaccine in the U.S. Six volunteers were inoculated today with the new vaccine at the Center for Vaccine Development, St. Louis University, Missouri, under the direction of Dr. Da...How well do scientists communicate with the public about vaccine safety?
...internationally prominent expert on immunology and vaccine safety. WHAT: Dr. Offit will address "Science,...idence bearing on specific parental concerns about vaccine safety. That evidence shows that vaccines do not weaken the infant immune system, do not cause aller...New flu vaccine provides insight into immunity development
...s season's launch of FluMist, the first intranasal vaccine against influenza, U.S. health consumers could pot...e hurdles encountered in the development of a live vaccine and the lessons that might apply to development of other important vaccines at a Feb. 13 presentatio...Preventive Medicine 2004 to feature research findings on disease prevention and health promotion
...'s health, childhood obesity, smoke-free policies, vaccine safety, cancer screening, adolescent preventive services, smallpox immunization, travel medicine, asthma prevention, disease management, and many, many more important issues. Selected highlights of the meeting include: Dan Crippen, PhD, former Dir...Jefferson researchers find immune response, dosing keys to vaccine's success against melanoma
...his own cancer cells and the schedule by which the vaccine is given are two key factors in the success of a custom-made vaccine created from the cancer cells of patients with malignant melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer......'s health, childhood obesity, smoke-free policies, vaccine safety, cancer screening, adolescent preventive services, smallpox immunization, travel medicine, asthma prevention, disease management, and many, many more important issues. Selected highlights of the meeting include a plenary session featuring Dan ......ffectiveness of a telomerase peptide as a possible vaccine against breast cancer. The study will measure pot...al study to use a telomerase peptide as a possible vaccine against breast cancer," said lead researcher Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil, an assistant professor a...