News tagged with experimental vaccines
Diabetes vaccine stumbles at second hurdle
An experimental vaccine to prevent progression of Type 1 diabetes failed at the second step of the three-phase trial process, doctors said on Monday in a study reported online by The Lancet.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 27, 2011 |
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Experts debate destroying last smallpox viruses
(AP) -- Smallpox, one of the world's deadliest diseases, eradicated three decades ago, is kept alive under tight security today in just two places - the United States and Russia.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 13, 2011 |
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New vaccine candidate shows strong potential to prevent highly contagious norovirus
Scientists have shown that an experimental vaccine against the human norovirus – the bug behind about 90 percent of highly contagious nonbacterial illnesses that cause diarrhea and vomiting – can generate a strong ...
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Mar 15, 2011 |
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New discovery could lead to vaccines for plague and bacterial pneumonias
There is an ongoing battle in the "war on terror" that remains mostly unseen to the public -- a race between scientists working to develop a vaccine to protect against plague and the terrorists who seek to use plague as a ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 25, 2011 |
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Researchers create experimental vaccine against Alzheimer's
Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have created an experimental vaccine against beta-amyloid, the small protein that forms plaques in the brain and is believed to contribute to the development of Alzheimer's disease.
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Oct 08, 2010 |
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Study finds genital herpes vaccine ineffective in women
An experimental vaccine intended to prevent genital herpes disease in women, although generally safe and well-tolerated, proved ineffective when tested in the recently concluded clinical study known as the Herpevac Trial ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Sep 30, 2010 |
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Clinical trial to test whether vaccine can effectively treat melanoma
Rush University Medical Center is leading a nationwide Phase III clinical trial to determine whether a promising vaccine for advanced melanoma can effectively treat the deadly skin cancer.
Apr 06, 2010 |
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Experimental vaccine protects monkeys against chikungunya
Imagine a mosquito-borne virus that has already infected millions of people in recent outbreaks in South and Southeast Asia, the islands of the Indian Ocean, Africa and northern Italy. Although seldom fatal, it causes highly ...
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Mar 04, 2010 |
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Human immune cells -- in mice
(PhysOrg.com) -- In 1796, English physician Edward Jenner decided to investigate a tale he had often heard -- that milkmaids infected with cowpox became immune to smallpox, a much more dangerous affliction. ...
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Jan 13, 2010 |
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Hindering HIV-1-fighting immune cells
Immune proteins called HLA molecules help to activate killer T cell responses against pathogens. But according to a study that will be published online on December 14th in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, one partic ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 14, 2009 |
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Animal TB 'tracker' to speed drug and vaccine studies
Johns Hopkins researchers have developed a novel way to monitor in real time the behavior of the TB bacterium in mouse lungs noninvasively pinpointing the exact location of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The ...
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Jul 22, 2009 |
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Preventing ear infections in the future: Delivering vaccine through the skin
An experimental vaccine applied the surface of the skin appears to protect against certain types of ear infections. Scientists from the Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, report their ...
May 21, 2009 |
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Vaccine trial flags challenge to celiac disease
An effective clinical treatment for coeliac disease (or gluten intolerance) is the ultimate objective of WEHI clinician scientist, Dr Bob Anderson. This month will see the beginning of a Phase 1 clinical trial for an experimental ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 03, 2009 |
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Vaccine against CMV shows promise in clinical trial
A new vaccine has the potential to be the first to prevent maternal and congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) study published in the March 19 edition of the New En ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 18, 2009 |
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