Items tagged with Vaccine

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Stem Cell Vaccine for Cancer Step Nearer Thursday, October 8th, 2009 - 16:41:51 - Anuradha Menon Researchers have engineered stem cells to mimic some characteristics of cancer that when injected trick the body into building up a natural immunity... read more

Vaccine Could Prevent HIV Infection Saturday, September 26th, 2009 - 10:13:20 - Anuradha Menon The first vaccine to show any sign of preventing the spread of HIV has provided the most encouragement since the 1990s in the three-decades quest to... read more

Aids Vaccine Found to Cut Risk of Infection Thursday, September 24th, 2009 - 16:36:56 - Anuradha Menon An experimental vaccine designed to combat HIV has shown the first signs of protection against the virus. The vaccine, which was being used in a... read more

Swine Flu Shots Expected in October Friday, September 18th, 2009 - 16:00:33 - Anuradha Menon Illinois will get about 2 million of the 45 million doses of swine flu vaccine expected to be available nationwide by mid-October, state health... read more

One Vaccine Shot Seen as Protective for H1N1 Saturday, September 12th, 2009 - 14:43:57 - Anuradha Menon Defying the expectations of experts, clinical trials are showing that the new H1N1 swine flu vaccine protects with only one dose instead of two, so... read more

A Safer Anthrax Vaccine is at Hand Monday, September 7th, 2009 - 14:04:22 - Ehud Rattner Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified two small protein fragments that could be developed into an... read more

Malaria Vaccine Holds Out Eradication Hope Monday, August 17th, 2009 - 00:00:00 - Ehud Rattner A vaccine that targets the malaria parasite at a vulnerable point in its development could form part of a strategy to eradicate the disease. Unlike... read more

A Vaccine for Colon Cancer Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 - 14:31:23 - Anuradha Menon A cancer vaccine with a twist is making headway in clinical trials at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Rather than targeting a... read more

Mystery of HIV Vaccine Failure Deepens Tuesday, July 21st, 2009 - 15:51:19 - Ehud Rattner Two groups of scientists have cast doubt on a leading explanation for the failure of a key HIV vaccine. The two teams examined immune cells from... read more

H1N1 Vaccine Should Be Available In November Saturday, July 18th, 2009 - 09:08:11 - Anuradha Menon Researchers at the University of Antwerp are currently comparing 4 potential vaccines for H1N1v, also known as swine flu or Mexican flu. 300 to 400... read more

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