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Biotechnology on the lead

...ioterrorism agent. "We're currently working on a vaccine that uses biotechnology to take a fragment of the ...cule and produce a safer, but still very effective vaccine that has no toxicity in and of itself."...

Health Officials Recommend Flu Vaccine

...ait in hours-long lines to get a shot of influenza vaccine this year: They want to avoid both the flu and ant...se of all that's in the press." // In fact, more vaccine is expected to be produced this year than in years past: about 85 million doses this year, compared ...

Smallpox Vaccine May Help Fight Cervical Cancer

A modified version of the smallpox vaccine is being tested against cervical cancer. Human pap...ors at Britain's Cancer Research Campaign hope the vaccine will boost the immune system's response to the human papilloma virus (HPV), which is linked to most ...

New HIV cases resist drugs

...Unless better drugs are developed soon, or until a vaccine is invented that can control the virus, patients will have ever-lessening chances of using drugs to counter AIDS. Richman and colleagues tested blood samples from 1,647 men and women. They used a test to show how the virus responded to the many avail...

High Demand for a child vaccine

High demand for a new vaccine against childhood pneumonia, meningitis and ear infections has led to a shortage around the country. Meanwhile, doctors are directing the supplies they do have to children// who run the highest risk of infection, such as those with sickle cell anemia...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...lating everyone who has been exposed. The smallpox vaccine can also be used to treat the infection if given in the days immediately after exposure....

A new vaccine for leukemia

A new vaccine has been developed by a research team from Southam...son plans to launch a 21-patient trial of the new vaccine within six months.She believes the treatment will be without side effects, and will offer the patien...

Syphilis uncovered

....The discovery could pave the way for a preventive vaccine and better diagnostic tests and treatments.// Syp..., alive in the laboratory long enough to work on a vaccine or better treatments. Dr George Weinstock, who led the gene mapping study, said: "The genome sequen...

Panacea Biotech To Market Anthrax Vaccine

...roduction and marketing rights of the anti-anthrax vaccine developed by the Centre for Biotechnology in the J...al Nehru University (JNU). It is expected that the vaccine would be in the market in 3-4 months. The Company has made a milestone payment to JNU for the exclus...

Babies Need Vaccination

...ecommended; both lists recommend a series of seven vaccine shots starting in infancy for all U.S. children. ...that because of a current shortage of pneumococcal vaccine - which protects against childhood pneumonia, meningitis and ear infections - doctors are urged to r...

Rubella nearly wiped out

... fallen from almost 58,000 in 1969//, the year the vaccine was introduced, to 272 in 1999. Rubella, which typically causes a mild rash, was considered harmless until the 1940s, when it was discovered that it could cause birth defects in children whose mothers were infected while pregnant. The virus can caus...

New Prostate Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise

Preliminary results from a study on a vaccine made from the immune system cells of prostate canc...ke University Medical Center in Durham, tested the vaccine on 13 men with metastatic prostate cancer.// The vaccine uses the men's own dendritic cells, extra...

Shortage of MMR vaccine

The vaccine that protects children against measles, mumps and rubella is in short supply. The MMR vaccine joins a growing list of scarce drugs, with shortfalls caused by production problems, fewer drugmaker...

Anthrax vaccine produced

Indian scientists have produced a more effective vaccine for anthrax and they claim that it could be less m...d that if further tests proved successful, the new vaccine could replace the form presently used, which although effective has many side effects. Dr Bhatnagar ...

Problematic Use of smallpox vaccine

... not recommending that it be widely used- yet. The vaccine currently on hand, 16.8 million doses in a governm...eople with weakened immune systems, the live-virus vaccine can cause illness. And in 1 to 2 people per million, it can cause death. Routine smallpox vaccinat...

Meningitis C vaccine a cost-effective success

Researchers say the introduction of meningitis C vaccine into the UK has not only reduced the incidence of the disease in children and young people, but has done so cost-effectively.// Researchers assessed the cost-effectiveness of the meningitis C campaign in young people up to the age of 19. Before the...

Drug Firm Offers to Donate Smallpox Vaccine

...s and leaves others covered in sores. But giving a vaccine within days of exposure can protect against illnes...ate up to 90 million doses of decades-old smallpox vaccine and the United States said it would accept the supplies if they are still effective against the dead...

Vaccine guards against shingles

A slight variation of a chicken pox vaccine gave good protection to those at high risk of shin...y of Hokins have tested an inactivated chicken pox vaccine in a group of lymphoma patients about to undergo a bone marrow transplant. Such patients are at very...

Demand for universal flu vaccination

...one over the age of 60 had a flu jab. According to vaccine experts, Dr. Gregory Poland fe that universal vacc...65s. First, nurses should be able to prescribe the vaccine to elderly people in hospital. Next, set up special flu clinics and use 'standing orders' for repeat...

The importance of vaccines

... has never been a better time than the present for vaccine development and implementation, write. However, ... and there is not a great deal of enthusiasm about vaccine development among those who actually have the capability to develop and produce vaccines. The resea...

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