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Latest discovery on Autism

...association between the time the child had the MMR vaccine and when the first signs of autism appeared. They write, "No evidence was found that children with autism were more likely than children without autism to have had defined gastrointestinal disorders at any time before their diagnosis of autism." Ac...

Vaccine for septic conditions

...Scripps Institute in the US have been looking at a vaccine for sepsis. It is based on one of the toxins which...ock. Working with animals, they have shown how the vaccine can protect against sepsis, by stimulating the immune system to fight against it. It's hoped that in...

Perceived stress decreases vaccine response

... under stress had a lower response to a meningitis vaccine than expected.// Undergraduate students in the UK all get a vaccination against meningitis, to protect them from an outbreak of this potentially fatal brain infection. So they form an ideal population for studying the effects of stress on immune resp...

New AIDS vaccine may be in the offing

...eported a stunning discovery of a bold new type of vaccine which may one day let people quit their AIDS drugs...ach to HIV. The researchers reported that the new vaccine uses a type of cell, commonly found in the skin, called dendritic cells or DCs. The main job of DCs ...

New lung cancer vaccine on the anvil

...hem. In the new study researchers have developed a vaccine that gets the attention of the T-cells// and makes...g chemical signal. Patients got injections of this vaccine once or twice a week. Lead researcher Dranoff said that this is the first time a vaccine has been d...

Drop in global deaths from measles

...tions.About 15 percent of children who receive the vaccine for the first time fail to develop immunity....

WHO Says Toronto Going Back on SARS-Affected List

... at a hospital. Hong Kong researchers said a SARS vaccine developed with their mainland Chinese counterparts was ready for testing on animals, with results expected in six months.//...

Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

...ess. The findings may complicate the search for a vaccine against the deadly mosquito-borne illness, accordi...effective dengue vaccine. The risk, is that if the vaccine does not "hit" all four types of the virus, the vaccine may end up mimicking a second natural infect...

AIDS vaccine falls short but shows some promise

.... The FDA has said it would consider approving the vaccine if it were 30 percent effective, but the reduction...oint of the trial."// The researchers studied the vaccine in about 5,400 people -- 5,108 of them were men who had sex with men; 309 were women. All of them ha...

Bowel diseases linked to bug in milk

...ation. Prof Hermon-Taylor is trying to develop a vaccine against Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) as a treatment for Crohn's disease and is shortly to test it on mice. Research by his team and others suggests that MAP, which infects cattle, is infiltrating water supplies and defeating ...

Measles Risk in Transplant Patients

... they don’t receive the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine in a timely manner.// Completion of MMR vaccinati...children aged 2 years received a first dose of the vaccine by March 2003. (Data shows there were 66 cases of measles reported in the second quarter of the year...

Need for Hepatitis Booster Questioned

.... Studies done indicate people who receive the HAV vaccine develop immune memory of the virus long after// de.... Now that researchers have been able to study the vaccine for a decade, they’re finding people with healthy immune systems continue to have protective antibod...

A new Vaccine for Pneumonia

Researchers show a new type of vaccine can reduce the incidence of pneumonia in children ... flu vaccine. The researchers found the pneumonia vaccine decreased the rate of the particular strain of pneumonia in the vaccine, by 72 percent. It also redu...

Vaccine Reduces antibiotic-resistant infections in Children

Children who receive a vaccine to protect them against severe strains of the bact... for the bacterium after the introduction of a new vaccine that protects children from the seven most invasive strains of S. pneumoniae. The rate of children w...

New vaccine for brain cancer

...rch suggests, when combined with chemotherapy, the vaccine increases the two-year survival of patients with g...ever specialist’s newest endeavor is to inject the vaccine directly into the tumor of patients whose cancer has recurred. In the first patient vaccinated this ...

New Vaccine for SARS Coming Soon

A new study shows a vaccine made from the common cold virus may induce the imm...earlier this year. The monkeys were given a second vaccine 28 days later, and researchers used two monkeys to serve as control subjects. Results of the study ...

The Effectiveness Of Chickenpox Vaccine Questioned

Latest research shows the chickenpox vaccine loses some of its effectiveness in the first year ...searchers were prompted to further investigate the vaccine after chickenpox outbreaks were reported among vaccinated individuals. Researchers studied nearly ...

Groundbreaking Study Gives Hope For Patients With Kidney Cancer

...ers have developed what appears to be an effective vaccine against recurrent kidney cancers.// Kidney cancer ...r kidney cancer. About half the group received six vaccine injections at four-week intervals following surgery. The other half received no additional treatment...

SARS vaccine shows promise in Animal Testing

...chers say mice immunized with an experimental SARS vaccine were protected against the deadly respiratory dise...m an accelerated federal research program show the vaccine prompted an immune response in the mice and dramatically reduced the level of the virus in the lungs...

A Vaccine For Non – Hodgkin’s Lymphom

... resistant disease and die of their lymphoma. The vaccine is made from a unique protein pattern from the patient's own tumor. It teaches the immune system to recognize cancer cells and kill them. Researchers say , "There are certainly patients who've been vaccinated who have yet to have their cancer return,...

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