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According to results from a Phase III safety and immunogenicity study presented today, Prevenar 13 (Pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate vaccine, [13-valent, adsorbed]) was shown to be immunogenic and generally well tolerated in healthy young children who had received at least three prior doses of Prevenar (Pneumococcal Saccharide Conjugated Vaccine, Adsorbed)...
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Scientists report a protein made by a gene already associated with a handful of human inflammatory immune diseases plays a pivotal role in protecting the intestinal tract from colitis. St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators led the research, which points to possible new strategies for combating colitis...
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Treating virulent influenza, sepsis, and other potentially deadly infections long has focused on looking for ways to kill viruses and bacteria. But new research from the University of Utah and Utah State University shows that modulating the body's own overeager inflammatory response to infection may help save more lives...
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Nature News examines GAVI Alliance's multi-billion-dollar budget shortfall ahead of a donors meeting in The Hague on March 25-26...
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WHO Suspends Distribution, Purchase Of Pentavalent Vaccine A WHO spokeswoman announced Wednesday that the agency "has suspended the distribution and purchase of the Shan5 vaccine, produced by Sanofi-Aventis's Indian unit Shantha Biotechnics, pending a quality investigation," after several reports of white sediment on the walls of the vaccine vials, the Wall Street Journal reports...
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Every day, our gut comes in contact with bacteria, inducing an inflammatory response that is tolerated and controlled. Sometimes the control of inflammation is lost and this can lead to inflammatory bowel disease that may predispose to colon cancer...
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Based on encouraging results from pre-clinical research, Bionor Immuno AS today announced intentions to take the therapeutic and potentially preventative HIV-vaccine candidate Vacc-C5 into a Phase I/II clinical trial. The research results indicate that Vacc-C5 may induce a protective antibody response in HIV patients similar to that found in patients with slow or non-progressing disease...
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New research conducted by the scientific director for VGTI Florida and his colleagues at the University of Montreal, in collaboration with scientists from the NIH and the McGill University Hospital center, may soon lead to an expansion of the drug arsenal used to fight HIV...
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Healthcare personnel influenza immunization rates have remained low, despite recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other leading healthcare organizations that all healthcare personnel receive annual flu vaccines. Experts say these levels are perilous. Increasing vaccination rates substantially improves patient safety, lowering flu deaths by 40 percent...
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A booster shot appears to improve tuberculosis (TB) resistance in previously vaccinated adults, according to new research in South Africa. The study has been published online ahead of print publication in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. "The world urgently needs new, better vaccines against TB," said Willem Hanekom, M.B.Ch.B...
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New York Times Features Profiles Of USAID's Shah, CDC's Frieden The New York Times examines the recent changes at the CDC - "considered one of the world's premier public health agencies, responsible for tracking the spread of infectious disease, distributing vaccines and monitoring the causes of sickness and deaths" - since Director Thomas Frieden took ove...
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According to a recent United Nations study, HIV infection rates among high-risk groups such as gays, drug users and sex workers are on the rise around the world. U.N. AIDS agency chief Michel Sidibe is saying the increase may be due to worsening discrimination against these groups in certain countries. In the U.S...
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Two teams of researchers including Los Alamos National Laboratory theoretical biologists Bette Korber, Will Fischer, Sydeaka Watson, and James Szinger have announced an HIV vaccination strategy that has been shown to expand the breadth and depth of immune responses in rhesus monkeys. Rhesus monkeys provide the best animal model currently available for testing HIV vaccines...
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) announced that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted marketing authorisation for RevoladeŽ (eltrombopag), a once-daily oral treatment for adults with chronic immune thrombocytopenic purpura (ITP)...
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Black children are less likely than white or Asian children to develop shingles (herpes zoster) after receiving the varicella vaccine to prevent chickenpox, reports a study in the March issue of The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal...
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To understand the role of inflammation in cardiovascular and other diseases, it is essential to identify and characterize genes that induce an inflammatory response in the body -- and the genes that regulate them...
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PARASITOLOGY: Cancer drug beneficial in models of infectious disease Drugs known as receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitors (RTKIs) are routinely used to treat several forms of cancer, but whether they could be used to effectively treat infectious diseases has not been determined...
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The GAVI Alliance has "asked existing and potential donors to a meeting in The Hague on March 25 and 26 to challenge them to 'make a strong impact' on childhood death rates," Reuters reports...
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Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health conducted an analysis of worldwide use of Haemophilus influenza Type b vaccine (Hib) to determine what factors influenced a nation's adoption of the vaccine...
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Obesity may limit the body's ability to develop immunity to influenza viruses, particularly secondary infections, by inhibiting the immune system's ability to "remember" how it fought off previous similar bouts of illness, according to new research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
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Several drugmakers have reached an agreement "to supply up to 200 million doses a year of cut-price pneumococcal vaccines to developing nations," according to GAVI Alliance, Reuters reports. A formal announcement of the deal is expected "in the next couple of weeks," GAVI's Deputy Chief Executive Officer Helen Evans told the news service Thursday...
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Baxter International Inc. (NYSE:BAX), in conjunction with DynPort Vaccine Company LLC (DVC), a CSC Company (NYSE:CSC), presented Phase III study data measuring the clinical efficacy for PREFLUCEL, a trivalent seasonal influenza candidate vaccine. PREFLUCEL is made using Baxter's Vero cell culture platform and does not contain an adjuvant or preservatives...
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BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: BPAX) announced positive results of a human clinical study that show that its GVAX Leukemia vaccine may be able to reduce or eliminate the last remaining cancer cells in some chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) patients taking the drug Gleevec (imatinib mesylate)...
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Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms for pharmaceutical and healthcare issues, finds that Merck KGaA/Oncothyreon's Stimuvax vaccine earns Decision Resources' proprietary clinical gold standard status in 2013 and 2018 for the treatment of locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer...
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A new study unveils the possible link between widely used childhood medicines and the risk of developing allergies and eMedindia Health News - Know your immune system
A new study appearing in an upcoming issue of Brain, Behavior, and Immunity says that flu shots do not work properly in Medindia Health News - Know your immune system
Stronger Immune response in women could be the reason why isolated women are less vulnerable to falling ill and death asMedindia Health News - Know your immune system
A new research has highlighted the use of platinum and gold in the treatment of autoimmune disorders. The mechanism of hMedindia Health News - Know your immune system
Johns Hopkins researchers studied the activity and the major role played by the tumor necrosis factor (TNF) molecule in Medindia Health News - Know your immune system
Professor Ruslan Medshitov and his Post doc Daniel Stetson have reported in the Journal Immunity that the host immune syMedindia Health News - Know your immune system
Professor Keith Palmer and his team from Southampton General Hospital, studied the inflammatory response in occupationalMedindia Health News - Know your immune system
Serotonin drugs which were found to be an effective anti-depressant is also found to interact with immune cells but the Medindia Health News - Know your immune system
New research from the Weizmann Institute of Science throws light on cells that could prevent deterioration of cognition Medindia Health News - Know your immune system
Professor Gabriel Nunez, Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School has reported in the Journal NaturMedindia Health News - Know your immune system
The immune response of human beings can be re-energized to counter chronic viral infection, according to a study which hMedindia Health News - Know your immune system
It may be possible to treat severe asthma now by blocking a chemical in the immune system. This chemical is present in hMedindia Health News - Know your immune system
Immunity refers to the natural ability of the body to fight against specific diseases. The development of this natural aMedindia Health News - Know your immune system
Researchers from University of Michigan had identified a protein that triggered the antibodies in patients suffering froMedindia Health News - Know your immune system
A simple technique to rejuvenate the immune system, to increase its output and enhance response of the T cells has been Medindia Health News - Know your immune system
Expression of gene may be responsible for various immune deficiency syndromes, and researchers have been able to find
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Scientists from UCLA and Harvard School of Medicine have successfully discovered how the body's immune system fights i
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Researchers say they have found a way to prevent type 1 diabetes in rats that are generally prone to develop the disease
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Asbestos exposure has long been associated with cancers, fibrosis and other diseases. Based on findings of a recent stud
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If your son loves wrestling you might want to get him involved in wrestling early, and it may significantly boost his im
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Stem cell transplants have become an increasingly common procedure for hard-to-treat cancers. The goal is to restore the
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The anthrax bug swiftly disarms the sentinels of the body's immune system, hampering the body's ability to defend agains
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Several studies in the past have shown that exercise could benefit both the young and the old in more ways than one. A n
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An immune cell swallows a small capsule-shaped bacteria. The immune cells which help protect us from disease does not ge
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A new study has found that children with some autoimmune diseases have an increased risk of asthma. In the study, Dr. Ju
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News is out that Spirulina may be the wonder drug we are all looking out for. According to Journal of Medicinal Food, Sp
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