NIAID Initiates Trial of Experimental Avian Flu Vaccine
Fast-track recruitment has begun for a trial to investigate the safety of a vaccine against H5N1 avian influenza, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced today. Sites in Rochester, NY, Baltimore and Los Angeles will enroll a total of 450 healthy adults. The clinical sites are part of the NIAID-sponsored V...Biologists visualize protein interaction that may initiate viral infection
Biologists at Purdue University have taken a "snapshot" of a Velcro-like protein on a cell's surface just after it attached to the dengue virus, a linkup thought to initiate the early stages of infection. During the earliest stages o...A smoke free place to be initiated
Passive smokers have always been at a loss when it comes to health issues. In California, travel is now the major source of environmental tobacco smoke for residents. Environmental tobacco smoke// (ETS, or passive smoking)is linked to a wide range of adverse health effects - from exacerbation of asthma to eye irritation and even lung cancer. In California smoking is now banned in the work...Stem Cell Treatment For Children With Brain Injury To Be Initiated
It has been proposed to initiate a novel clinical trial to assess the clinical benefits and safety of stem cell based therapy for treatment of traumatic brain injury in children at the University of Texas. // The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the university’s Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects (CPHS) have already approved the proposal. The fact that stem ce...Clinical Trials Of New Anti-Cancer Drug To Be Initiated In New Zealand
A novel anti-cancer drug claimed to attack the human cancer cells in a unique way will be distributed to patients for the first time in New Zealand. The clinical trial would be held at New Zealand's Waikato Hospital, according // to health reports released on Wednesday. Auckland University cancer researcher Professor Bill Wilson described PR-104 as a "unique anti-cancer drug that is conv...Massive Production Of Bird Flu Vaccine To Be Initiated In China
It has been proposed to initiate mass-production of a live bird flu vaccine for dual protection against bird flu and Newcastle disease before the start of next year // in China. This move is further anticipated to lead to the development of a vaccine for humans. More than 1-billion units of the vaccine are believed to be produced by the year-end. This would be a supplement to the al...Exclusive Team initiated To Check Bird Flu Pandemic: Jakarta
Jakarta: The Bird Flu outbreak is threatening to cause a major upheaval to the Nation’s health, making it very crucial to contain the spread, according to the Coordinating Minister// for People’s Welfare, Aburizal Bakrie. The Nation’s Economic Minister, equally concerned, has expressed fears on the dwindling poultry industry and a consequent fall back in the Nation’s Economic condition, d...Malvern initiates European user group meetings for chemical imaging
WORCESTERSHIRE , England, 21 June 2007, Malvern Instruments hasheld the inaugural meeting in Europe for users of the company'snear infrared chemical imaging (NIR-CI) systems. The one-day event,which took place on 13 June 2007 was hosted by AstraZeneca inMacclesfield, UK. Malvern customers from some of the world's majorpharmaceutical companies joined Malvern's technical and scientificteam...