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Vaccine to quit smoking?

...been taken in trying to prevent smoking, but a new vaccine developed by Nabi,// a pharmaceutical company, pro... new hope in preventing people from relapsing. The vaccine (NicVAX) binds nicotine and prevents it from reaching the brain, where it causes its stimulatory eff...

First Vaccine Designed for Africa Cleared for Testing in Humans

The first AIDS vaccine candidate designed specifically for Africa will en...ited Kingdom has approved Phase I testing of a DNA vaccine based on HIV subtype A, the most common strain in Kenya and in many other parts of Africa. Recruit...

Naked DNA Vaccination May Conquer Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis

...multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis. The vaccine is currently being successfully tested in animals. In multiple sclerosis (MS) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the body essentially attacks itself, causing inflammation. In MS, the myelin sheath of nerves falls victim, while in RA, it is the joints and...

Feeding channel created by malaria parasite - a new target for malaria treatments

... cell surface might be an attractive candidate for vaccine development....

Ebola Virus - 'Outbreak' Claims More Lives In Uganda.

...researchers in Paris last week reported successful vaccine tests on monkeys. Most victims die of shock after days of high fever, chest pains, vomiting and extensive internal bleeding. Doctors can do little except provide supportive rehydration therapy...

Miracle cure for Alzheimer’s around the corner

...the much awaited miracle cure round the corner. A vaccine made headlines sometime ago, as being efficient in...first stages of which have been successful and the vaccine declared safe to be administered. If proven successful it would be an enormous breakthrough. Though...

New hope for cancer victims – will vaccine cure the deadly bug

...re is some hope for the unfortunate victims. A new vaccine has been successfully tested on the pancreatic cancer victims and it has increased the survival rates in many. Vaccines are typically thought of as a way of preventing disease. In cancer, however, they are used along with other therapies to fight th...

Vaccine for Alzheimer’s diseas

Researchers developing a vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease have shown that it see... brain clean of the plagues. Mice given the test vaccine developed fewer protein deposits in their brains compared with unvaccinated animals. These results a...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...ma patients can now breathe easy. Literally. A new vaccine called grass pollen vaccine has been shown to be effective in improving the quality of life and has also reduced medication requ...

Man against HIV – new vaccine ready for human trials

A new vaccine called the TAT vaccine has been developed in Italy as the latest and most exciting HIV vaccine to date. And more importantl...

New vaccine helps allergy and asthma patients

...ma patients can now breathe easy. Literally. A new vaccine called grass pollen vaccine has been shown to be effective in improving the quality of life and has also reduced medication requ...

India takes on foot-and-mouth disease by vaccinating animals

...aided institution that has been has beenmaking FMD vaccine since 1972. "FMD is prevalent in an endemic form ... says. India produces 25 million doses of the FMD vaccine annually, of which IVRIproduces 4 million doses. The rest is manufactured by two companies in thepri...

Development of AIDS vaccine -- Chiron Corp in talks with four Indian cos

...turing agreement between Chiron Corp, the US-based vaccine major, and an Indian company for the development of a potential AIDS vaccine to halt the spread of the deadly disease in the country is in an advanced stage of finalisation. Tw...

HIV did not arise from polio vaccine

...us (HIV) Epidemic did not arise from an oral polio vaccine used in Africa in the 1950s and say rumours sugges...UK, France and Germany, should help free the polio vaccine manufactured by the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from lingering questions over it...

Hundred million dollar gift for malaria institute

...y at the forefront of efforts to find an effective vaccine and new treatments for the mosquito-borne disease,...he few institutions trying to develop a successful vaccine or new drug treatments. Dr. Diane Griffin, professor and chair of the Department of Molecular Micro...

Antibiotics losing their power against acne

...robing the possibility of harnessing a therapeutic vaccine to prevent acne. If successful, this can prove to be an effective solution for millions of patients, most of them teenagers, suffering from physical and psychological trauma of severe acne....

WORM! WORM! all the way

...enting them from producing too much of the drug or vaccine they are engineered to make...there is no question helminths play an important if not essential role in the maintenance of human health....

Double impact vaccine

The virus strain which produces the measles vaccine is effective for another purpose - fighting lympho... of molecular medicine have found that the measles vaccine virus caused remission of lymphoma in mice injected with human cells containing the cancer.// Adele...

Vaccination reminder for anyone over 65..

...ple with health problems may even benefit from the vaccine at a younger age. And if you had this vaccine when you were younger than 65 and this was more than five years ago, you would be well advised to go...

Smallpox as Biological Weapons?

...ernment now has about 15 million doses of smallpox vaccine on hand. Experiments are getting underway to see w...sed to make it, hoping they will agree to make the vaccine and deliver it next year so it can be stockpiled. Smallpox is highly infectious, and can be fatal....

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