Breast tumors in mice eradicated using cancer vaccine
Findings could lead to new immune therapy for breast cancer A team from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has shown that by using a cancer vaccine based on the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, they can cure mice with established breast tumors. Cancer vaccines, which are more properly described as immunotherapy, work by boosting an immune response against tumor-associated...Congenital rubella syndrome nearly eradicated in the US
Congenital rubella syndrome, a birth defect caused by the rubella virus (also known as German measles), has practically been eliminated in the U.S., according to a statement published in the April 2006 issue of Birth Defects Research Part A, the official journal of The Teratology Society. The journal is available online via Wiley InterScience at <A HREF="http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin...Polio can be eradicated in India: Health Experts
Experts from Imperial College London UK opine that new measures have to be considered to battle Polio in India now. //Even after mammoth efforts for comprehensive immunization from the health officials in India, almost one-third of polio cases reported globally happen to be from India. According to the experts in UK, the rising numbers of cases of polio in India are due to improper san...TB can Be Eradicated in the U.S With Modified Guidelines: Study
To eradicate tuberculosis effectively in the US the present guidelines should be modified affirms a recent work published in the American Journal of Respiratory and// Critical Care Medicine. This will need all foreign immigrants to be classified as "high-risk,” when they have originally come from high risk areas around the world.This paper has been published by American Thoracic Society....Ancient Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years, UN Agency Reports
Guinea worm, an ancient parasitic disease causing tennis-ball-size ulcers so painful that victims feel as if they are on fire, could in less than two years// become the second illness after smallpox to be pushed into oblivion, thanks to water treatment and other preventive methods, the United Nations health agency reported today. “This is the culmination of years of effort by local and...