Study Injects New Interest In How Vaccines Work
...-- A popular theory about how a major component of vaccines works within the body has been shot down by a Purd...ster than presumed. "Aluminum hydroxide is used in vaccines to increase the body's production of antibodies, though no one knows how it works," says Hem, profes...Targon And Duke Cancer Center Sign $3.75 Million Agreement To Produce Advanced Anti-Cancer Drugs
...sis of cancer and for developing innovative cancer vaccines and drugs. More than 6,000 cancer patients are admitted to Duke each year, and cancer patients make more than 100,000 visits to outpatient clinics each year. The center is one of six in the U.S. designated by the National Cancer Institute as a Specia...Crystal Structure Of gp120 Reveals HIV In Action
...crystal structure may revitalize efforts to create vaccines based onthe immune system recognizing a portion of gp120. One such trial ended in 1996,with patients receiving a gp120-based vaccine faring no better than those whoreceived placebo. A phase III trial of another variation on the gp120 vaccinetheme rec...Lupus Foundation Of America Awards Summer Internship To Student Working At Wistar Institute
...improving world health through theirdevelopment of vaccines for diseases that include rabies, German measles,infantile gastroenteritis (rotavirus), and cytomegalovirus; discovery ofmolecules like interleukin-12, which are helping the immune system fightbacteria, parasites, viruses and cancer; and location of ...DNA-Based Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise To Successfully Treat Melanoma In Mice
...ells, but they have used this knowledge to develop vaccines that mayhelp to prevent cancer recurrence. Now, s...ins with their normal cellcounterparts. "These DNA vaccines are unique because they can trigger immunity where othertypes of vaccines can fail to stimulate an i...New Vaccine Being Tested In Prostate Cancer Patients
...of the peer-reviewed journal on November 25. Using vaccines to stimulate an immune response against cancer typically focuseson proteins, which are relatively easy to make but often arelodged within cellsandnot easily accessible to antibodies. Most of the good targets, or antigens, onacancer cell's surface ar...New drugs, diagnostic tests, software needed to prepare US cities for chemical, biological attacks
...used by a terroristattack, including new drugs and vaccines to combat anthrax and smallpox, fasterand easier-t...ed to develop, manufacture, and stockpile improved vaccines for anthraxand smallpox, the committee recommended. And an aggressive program should bedeveloped to......tosis.Cytokines, such as IL-2 and interferon-a and vaccines are potent stimulators ofT-cells and NK-cells, yet...be used broadly toimprove cytokine therapy, cancer vaccines and other stimulators of the immunesystem," stated Larry Stambaugh, chairman and chief executive off......gthe ability of current and new infectious disease vaccines to produce effectiveimmune responses. Similarly, the ability of ISS-DNA to modulate the immuneresponse should enable the development of more effective therapies for chronicinfectious diseases and cancer. Dynavax's technology also provides opportuniti......s. The pilot weighs the economic value ofcombining vaccines to reduce the number of injections or clinical vis...tem:purchasing vaccines. The pilot study looked at vaccines for five potentiallyserious children's diseases: Hepatitis B, Haemophilus Influenza Type b,diphtheri...Interleukin-2 Boosts Cancer Vaccine Effectiveness In Mice
...ile other researchers are experimenting with tumor vaccines made from singletumor peptides mixed with dendriti...and Martin Giedlin,associate research director for vaccines and gene therapy research at ChironTechnologies. The research was supported by the National Cancer I...Flu Shots Keep Health Workers On The Job
...ere women, and 18 percent were nurses. All vaccines and placebos were administered in October and November of1992, 1993, and 1994. Each week during the flu season, a study nurse called allparticipants on the telephone, inquired about illnesses during the previousweek, and recorded specific symptoms of...T-Cell Memory Finding May Provide Key To Cancer, AIDS Vaccines
...This finding suggests that the typical approach to vaccines for treatment ofcancer or AIDS is not often likely...s particularly encouraging for those interested in vaccines astherapy for HIV infected patients, who lose their T-helper cells. Ordinarily,chemical signals from...Experts Meet In Canada To Discuss Vaccine Progress
... Children in the Americas also are receiving new vaccines in their routineimmunizations. Today 80 percent of the countries vaccinate against rubella andmumps; yellow fever inoculations are given in all but one of the countries wherethat disease is endemic; and countries are inoculating for hepatitis B and,i...IOM Report Offers New Look At U.S. Vaccine Priorities
...accines, including, for the first time,therapeutic vaccines against chronic diseases. Based on this analysis, the report divides 26 candidate vaccines into fourgroups, from most to least favorable for development (see page 4). But the IOMreport stres...New Vaccine Provides Protection From HIV In Monkeys
...contained. The Making Of A Vaccine Among the AIDS vaccines that have previously been tested in macaque models...nitapproaches. "It was important to test whether vaccines that were providingsome success when used individually could have synergy and elicit a strongerrespo......ral nervous systemdrugs, anti-inflammatory agents, vaccines and generic pharmaceuticals. American Home Products owns a majority interest in Immunex. AHP is oneof the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical and health care productscompanies. It is a leader in the discovery, development, manufac...ENBREL (Etanercept) Receives FDA Approval For Treatment Of Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis
...ral nervoussystem drugs, anti-inflammatory agents, vaccines and generic pharmaceuticals. American Home Products owns a majority interest in Immunex. AHP is oneof the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical and health care productscompanies. It is a leader in the discovery, development, manufac...Success of plasma centers could hurt Red Cross, study finds
...duce a wide range of medical products,ranging from vaccines to products needed for the manufacturing of clottingagents such as Factor VIII, used for the treatment of hemophilia. And becauseplasma doesn't contain red blood cells, patients can receive a transfusionregardless of their blood type. There a...National Cancer Institute awards Wistar Institute $6.6 million for melanoma research
... The second is to devise new treatments, including vaccines andangiogenesis inhibitors. During the course of this five-year grant, the Wistarscientists expect to begin clinical trials on new treatments for metastaticmelanoma. Every ten years, the incidence of melanoma doubles. This year, it is expectedthat ...