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Abdul Kalam Confident of AIDS vaccine on Indian market soon

...d in that region. President Kalam spoke about the vaccine while addressing a two-day international conclave ...tion (NACO) said the first phase of trials for the vaccine began this month at the National AIDS Research Institute at Pune. "Trial is already on and I am ve...

BCG vaccine to be boosted to effectively prevent tuberculosis

...e. //Although more than 3 billion doses of the BCG vaccine have been administered to fight tuberculosis, the ability of the BCG vaccine to protect adults is very limited. This has led us to ponder over the effectiveness of the vaccine i...

WHO says MMR vaccine is safe and recommends MMR Jab to all children’

...cines), there seems to be an increased use of this vaccine world wide which is the only source of protection ...re is an increase of about 80% in the usage // of vaccine compared to last year. During 1998, there were world wide concerns regarding the use of MMR vaccin...

Flu Vaccine Can Be Used To Treat Lung Cancer

...d they are trying to develop an existing influenza vaccine so that it will be effective against lung cancer//...ey had succeeded in altering an existing influenza vaccine so that it acted on the immune system like a sparkplug, giving it a kick-start. Then the system beco...

A Vaccine for the impending pandemic Avian Influenza

...nnounced results from initial clinical trials of a vaccine being developed to protect humans against infection with H5N1 avian influenza. NIAID and MedImmune have joined forces to develop potential pandemic influenza vaccines. HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt today announced that NIAID and MedImmune Inc. have sign...

“Provenge”, Dendritic cell vaccine for Prostate Cancr

An experimental dendritic vaccine has shown significant prognosis and extension of lifetime of men with prostate cancer. The vaccine Provenge is based on dendritic cells, which help the immune system recognize tumors. // “If these re...

Gardasil vaccine for cervical cancer

Gardasil is the new cervical vaccine developed by Sanofi Pasteur and Merck and found to be effective in its phase III trial, the vaccine is given in three doses over 6 months which has shown 100% successful. The company is // to apply fo...

Speed up bird flu vaccine, Bush tells experts

...ident George Bush getting in on the act and urging vaccine developers to speed up the process of developing a vaccine to combat the same. // Representatives of more than 80 countries and international organizations m...

Antigenics Pharmaceuticals plans for Phase III trial of its Melanoma vaccine

...s Pharmaceuticals is to start its Phase III cancer vaccine trial against Melanoma which is a type of skin cancer. Oncophage is the new skin cancer vaccine developed by Antigenics.// The vaccine trial of Oncophage which was conducted in 322 patients failed...

Vical Biotech and NIH jointly develops HIV vaccine

A new HIV vaccine is being jointly developed by Vical Pharmaceutical...he National Institute of Health (NIH). The new HIV vaccine was developed by the scientistis in NIH and the Federal government is using the Vical Biotechs DNA d...

BCG vaccine for both Protection and treatment of Tuberculosis

...with the TB bacterium. BCG is the most widely used vaccine worldwide, but its mechanism of protection is poor...tuberculosis disease, our results suggest that the vaccine also protects against tuberculosis infection . . . Our findings show that children can be protected ...

Booster dose not required for Hepatitis B Vaccination

...s, the use of routine booster doses of hepatitis B vaccine does not seem necessary to maintain long-term protection in immuno-competent individuals vaccinated as infants and teenagers." Ding-Shinn Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan said, “Unless accumulating data show a significant increase of HBV inf...

Microbicides could serve to materialise women empowerment in the years to come

...hree years, and this trial is important as the HIV vaccine is still 10 years away. Researchers world over are working on 60 products and half a dozen candidate microbicides are in the last stages of clinical trial, some in India. In India, microbicide trials will be carried out by the ICMR in collaboration ...

India preparing to counteract bird flu threat

...vernment would be starting manufacturing influenza vaccine and anti-viral drugs. The minister said that we co...explained. "When the need arises we will go in for vaccine preparation in the country but we will have enough stock of medicine and the vaccine could be made a...

MMR Vaccination not linked to Autism

...r bowel disease. As it is believed that use of MMR vaccine shots in children’s may cause Autism. This review ...e Library. The review confirmed that the combined vaccine may cause expected short-term effects such as irritability, fever, rash and joint stiffness. Very ra...

Results Of Human Trials Of Hungarian Bird-Flu Vaccine Expected Today

...epartment (ANTSZ) has said that a prototype //of a vaccine developed against the disease was proving effectiv...ainst birds. 'The effectiveness of the prototype vaccine against the Asian H5N1 strain of bird flu is proved among poultry and so it can be used to vaccinate...

Promotion Of Medical Research In India Is The Need Of The Hour: ICMR

...ishing a facility for the manufacture of influenza vaccine and to improve production of anti-viral drugs to help combat diseases like avian bird flu....

Indian Health Minister interested to import bird flu vaccine

...madoss Tuesday said India would import the Tamiflu vaccine to prevent bird flu in the country. Following earl...try had set up a facility to manufacture influenza vaccine and for the production-cum-procurement of anti-viral drugs and he has said that when the need arises...

Chiron Corporation Gets US Contract To Produce Bird Flu Vaccines

...the move would address a shortfall in the nation's vaccine stockpile and said, 'The hard truth is that capaci...y American.' Chiron corporation is to produce flu vaccine from the inactivated flu strain H5N1 through tissue culture the production will be done in its facto...

Bill Gates to Fund £28m for Malaria researc

...ducting clinical trial of newly developed Malarial vaccine by GlaxoSmithKline in Mozambique, Africa. The newly developed vaccine is found to protect young children’s from Malaria infection. The vaccine gives protection in 58% of ...

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