Salk's legacy, current and future challenges to vaccine development topic of briefing
... Child Health and Human Development; has pioneered vaccines for diseases that are prevalent in infants and chi...iscuss current and future challenges to developing vaccines for such viruses as HIV and avian flu. WHEN: 12 p.m., Monday, April 11 WHERE: Room 701, Unive...Combination vaccine produces lower immune response than vaccines administered separately
...bination vaccine developed to reduce the number of vaccines infants receive appears to provide less immunity than the vaccines administered individually, according to a study in the April 13 issue of JAMA. The development of im...Will cancer vaccine get to all women?
...es. This could be prevented by soon-to-be-approved vaccines against the virus that causes most cases of cervic...cancer- but there are signs that opposition to the vaccines might lead to many preventable deaths. The trouble is that the human papilloma virus (HPV) is sexual...NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine
...Graham, "In our experience in clinical trials, DNA vaccines generally cause few side effects, making them a pr...gh no DNA vaccine has yet been licensed, other DNA vaccines developed by the VRC against HIV/AIDS, Ebola and SARS also are being tested in ongoing trials at NIH...American Society of Travel Agents urges healthy travel for consumers
... chronic liver disease and liver cancer. There are vaccines for hepatitis A and hepatitis B. Both forms of vaccine-preventable hepatitis can be prevented by a single vaccine called Twinrix [Hepatitis A (Inactivated) & Hepatitis B (Recombinant) Vaccine], manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline. Twinrix is administer...Monoclonal antibody cures West Nile virus-infected mice
...logy and immunology. "Currently there are no safe vaccines for dengue infections." Important insights from the production and selection of the new antibody include a close fix on where the antibody binds to West Nile virus. Antibodies typically work by attaching to a piece of a foreign cell or substance, wh...New insights into HIV immunity suggest alternative approach to vaccines
...loping HIV vaccines. The findings suggest some HIV vaccines may have failed because they induce a class of ant... attacks against self. The Duke study suggests HIV vaccines may have failed in part because certain proteins on HIV's protective outer coat trigger only short-l...Parents who don't vaccinate their children may believe vaccines cause harm
CHICAGO Concern that vaccines might cause harm was the most common reason given ...tions and to explore differences in perceptions of vaccines and vaccine information sources between parents of exempt and fully vaccinated children. The surveys...Politicians bury their heads in the sand while global flu threat mounts
...ds. Governments must fund the rapid development of vaccines against H5N1, and build up sufficient stocks of anti-viral drugs such as zanamivir or olsetamivir, the best treatment for anyone infected, says Dr Higson. Pharmaceutical companies should also expand the manufacture and supply of relevant drugs, he ar...Immune system lab model overcomes ethical limits on human hematopoietic stem cells studies
... also facilitate the testing of experimental human vaccines and help us understand the mechanisms underlying human autoimmune diseases." Previous models of the human immune system were limited by relatively low levels of success in engraftment of HSCs and the failure of the engrafted cells to produce fully fu...NIAID awards first $27 million using new bioshield authorities
...illion to fund development of new therapeutics and vaccines against some of the most deadly agents of bioterrorism including anthrax, botulinum toxin, Ebola virus, pneumonic plague, smallpox and tularemia. These awards are the first made by NIAID using authorities provided by Project Bioshield, which was sig...Is the vaccine industry ailing?
...andoned vaccines, and urges legislators to protect vaccines as a vital instrument of public health. The number of companies making vaccines has declined from 26 in 1967, to 17 in 1980, to just five in 2004. Although some of these changes re...Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century
...e, type b (in children less than 5 years old), new vaccines in the past 10 years for varicella (chickenpox), h...ant improvements, the authors report. Since 2000, vaccines against nine of the twelve vaccine-preventable diseases of childhood have been in short supply. As ...Study: Americans willing to pay more for greater vaccine coverage
...vers the latest innovations in adult and childhood vaccines for certain types of cancer or even influenza and ...or coverage of all recommended childhood and adult vaccines in employer-sponsored health plans, are published in the May/June 2005 issue of Health Affairs. Sinc...Sabin Gold Medal awarded to vaccine developer Dr. Albert Z. Kapikian
...ance and leadership, notably in the development of vaccines against rotavirus, have been remarkable." "Albert...ian's contribution to mankind through the field of vaccines is truly extraordinary," says H.R. Shepherd, D.Sc., chairman of the Sabin Vaccine Institute. "It tak...Active vaccine prevents mice from developing prion disease
...chiatry, and the lead author of the study. The vaccines that provide active immunization are made, in part...estroy them any time they appear in the body. Most vaccines in use today provide such active immunization. The prion vaccine developed at NYU would most l...Pilot studies to look at how mind drives or prevents disease
...havioral training can increase the response to flu vaccines in elderly patients. About 90 percent of those who die from influenza are aged 65 and older, despite the availability of vaccines. Part of the problem is that fewer seniors respond to vaccine the older they get. Researchers will attempt to bolster th...Trumpeting vaccination may only entrench opposition
...ngly held beliefs about the safety and benefits of vaccines and any attempts to try to change their minds may ...cipants completed surveys about their attitudes to vaccines before and after the presentations. "Before" surveys confirmed the researchers' initial hypothesis ...Experimental therapies and vaccines for Ebola and Marburg viruses focus of Academy meeting
...ases and to accelerate progress towards protective vaccines and novel therapeutic strategies. To present news on the latest developments in our understanding of the molecular biology, epidemiology and approaches to vaccine development for these acute hemorrhagic viruses, the New York Academy of Sciences' E...New NIAID grants strengthen national biodefense and emerging infectious diseases research network
...arch that will lead to next-generation treatments, vaccines and diagnostic tools for diseases such as anthrax, plague, smallpox, tularemia, botulism and West Nile fever. University of California, Irvine, principal investigator Alan G. Barbour, M.D., will head a consortium whose members include four additional...