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New Insights Into HIV Immunity Suggest Alternative Approach to Vaccines

New insights by Duke University Medical Center researchers as to how HIV evades the human immune system may offer a new approach for developing HIV vaccines. The findings suggest some HIV vaccines may have failed because they induce a class of antibodies that a patient's own immune system is programmed to destroy. The Duke team discovered that certain broadly protective antibodies, which...

Live vaccines more effective against horse herpes virus

Following the recent deadly outbreak of equine herpes virus at Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, a Cornell University virologist says his preliminary research indicates that vaccines containing weakened live viruses, called modified live vaccines (MLV), appear to be more effective in preventing horse herpes than other more widely used vaccines. "It's important that people know t...

Designing vaccines by computer

Having vaccines developed by computer may sound unnerving but the increasing role of computer modelling in the development of new vaccines could bring new products onto the market quicker, benefiting patients and saving pharmaceutical companies millions of pounds. Researchers using informatics and computer modelling can help scientists to uncover and harness the hidden patterns in the weal...

Improving the potential of cancer vaccines

A special stretch of genetic material may turn off the immune suppression that stymies attempts to fight cancer with a vaccine, said researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) at Houston. In a report in today's issue of the journal Science, Dr. Rong-Fu Wang, a professor in the BCM Center for Cell and Gene Therapy and Department of Immunology, and his colleagues describe a new strategy...

High-dose flu vaccines appear to safely boost immunity in elderly

High-dose influenza vaccines may increase elderly patients' immune response without significant adverse effects, offering this vulnerable population additional protection against the flu, according to an article in the May 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Vaccines containing inactivated influenza virus have been available for 50 years to prevent...

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New Vaccines To Combat Rotavirus

Rotavirus which causes severe diarrhea can be combated with two new vaccines, according to clinical trials. The New England Journal of Medicine has published this report.// The symptoms can be reduced by as much as by between 85% to 100%. The affliction affects children in large numbers. Experts say the unqualified success of two drugs in these larger trials, without negative side ef...

The importance of vaccines

According to health policy experts felt that governments and societies must implement revolutionary changes in their approach to vaccines and preventive medicine if they want to ensure the health and welfare of their citizens.// Rino Rappuoli, Henry J. Miller, and Stanley Falkow, felt that vaccination is considered the most effective medical intervention and there has never been a better time tha...

Two New Human Papilloma virus (HPV) vaccines to prevent cervical cancer

Cervical cancer is the second leading cause of female cancer mortality worldwide, with 288,000 deaths annually. About 510,000 cases are // reported each year, 80% of them in developing countries. Two new vaccines are undergoing trial to prevent HPV infections, which causes cervical cancer. These vaccines must be given to girls before they are sexually active. The new vaccines are man...

Producing Vaccines from genetically modified crops

The consortium, called Pharma-Planta, wants to produce vaccines and other treatments for major //diseases, such as HIV/Aids, rabies and TB and they hope to start clinical trials by the year 2009. The project's aim is to focus on areas that will be of greatest benefit to developing nations where they feel that access to most vaccines is very poor at the same time keeping in mind that human health...

Understanding Chronic Infections May Help in Developing Therapeutic Vaccines

Vaccines for prophylaxis are well known. Famous vaccines include the ones against tetanus, polio, diphtheria, measles, // mumps etc.; Therapeutic vaccines to cure a condition are more recent innovation. The current vaccines tested in this area include the ones against HIV and hepatitis. The therapeutic vaccines aim to enhance the immune system's ability to combat an infectious agent, such as a vi...

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CytoGenix to Present at 2007 International DNA Vaccines Conference in Spain

HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 23, 2007 - CytoGenix, Inc. (CYGX.OB)announced today that Dr. Yin Chen, Chief Scientific Officer willpresent an update on preclinical animal data for DNA vaccines madeusing the Company's proprietary synDNA(TM) technology at the 2007DNA Vaccines conference to be held in Malaga, Spain between May 23and May 25. Dr. Chen comments, "We have successfully conducted t...

GlaxoSmithKline’s Hib-MenCY-TT Combination Vaccine Meets Phase II Study Endpoints of Immunogenicity and Safety Compared to Licensed Vaccines

Investigational vaccine could offer protectionfor infants against type b andmeningococcal disease — GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced results from aPhase II vaccine clinical study presented this week at thePediatri...

Flu Vaccine Used Last Winter Seems to Have Been Less Effective Than Vaccines Used in Previous Years

ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 02, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Harris Pollsuggests that the flu vaccine used before last winter may have beenless effective than the vaccines used in some previous years. Theadults who had flu shots before last winter were only 24 percentless likely to get the flu than those who were not vaccinated. Thedifferences were larger in two previous Harris Polls on the samet...

Newly Released Canadian Data Links Vaccines with Pervasive Developmental Disorder

National Autism Association calls 2006 Pediatrics study fatallyflawed CHICAGO, March 07, 2007 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New findingspresented yesterday at a National Autism Association meetingbolster claims that vaccines may play a role in the development ofautism spectrum disorders. David Ayoub, MD presented datasuggesting a correlation between mercury- containing vaccines andrates of...
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