immunizations

Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

...ine-preventable diseases and record high levels of immunizations among children. According to the article, however, problems with vaccine supply, cost and safety threaten to derail the vaccine successes of past decades, and the system faces additional challenges posed by the adult immunization program, the need fo...

Needle-free immunizations

...munization might initially push the direct cost of immunizations higher," says Mitragotri. "But the secondary costs..., says Mitragotri, helping ensure that needle-free immunizations will eventually be commonly used. ...

New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

...ddition of this vaccine to the roster of childhood immunizations is the culmination of decades of work and represents a significant milestone in public health. It brings us a step closer to our ultimate goal of eliminating childhood disease." Nearly every child experiences infection with rotavirus, usually as ga...

Survivors of childhood polio do well decades later as they age

... 1952, when 3,000 people died of the disease. Mass immunizations in the mid-1950s began to slow the spread of the disease, and the last case of polio not caused by a vaccine occurred in the United States in 1979. The three major types of polio include spinal polio, a paralytic polio that attacks nerve cells in the...

Malaria vaccine prompts victims' immune system to eliminate parasite from mosquitoes

... three and seven months after their initial set of immunizations than they did one week after their immunizations were completed. Next, the researchers fed serum containing the antibodies to mosquitoes carrying P...

New study suggests potential for a broadly-protective HIV vaccine

...The researchers tested antibodies generated by the immunizations to determine their effectiveness in neutralizing the infectivity of a variety of HIV-1 strains. Antibodies produced as a result of immunization neutralized all 48 strains of HIV-1 tested. The results are encouraging for vaccine development, because t...