News tagged with malaria vaccine
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Nano-sized vaccines
MIT engineers have designed a new type of nanoparticle that could safely and effectively deliver vaccines for diseases such as HIV and malaria.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 22, 2011 |
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New malaria vaccine depends on ... mosquito bites
The same menace that spreads malaria – the mosquito bite – could help wipe out the deadly disease, according to researchers working on a new vaccine at Tulane University.
Feb 16, 2011 |
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Profiling malaria-causing parasites
The majority of fatal cases of malaria are caused by infection with the parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Most at risk are young children and women who are pregnant. A team of researchers, led by Patrick Duffy, at the Nation ...
Feb 07, 2011 |
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MVI, Merck, NYU collaborate to research potential malaria vaccine
Development of a vaccine to prevent the malaria parasite from entering the human liver is the goal of a new collaboration announced today by global leaders in malaria research and vaccine development. The PATH Malaria Vaccine ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 14, 2010 |
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Malaria vaccine for Africa closer than ever, scientists say (Update)
Scientists are closer than ever to rolling out the first malaria vaccine, which could be available in Africa by 2015, a co-inventor of the shot against the killer disease said Tuesday.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Researchers modify yellow fever vaccine to fight malaria
(PhysOrg.com) -- A genetically modified vaccine originally used to eradicate yellow fever could be the key to stopping a mosquito-borne scourge that afflicts much of the developing world.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Lancet: Towards a malaria vaccine -- serious investment needed
The lead Editorial in this week's Lancet, ahead of World Malaria Day on April 25, calls for 'serious investment into a 'broad research and development strategy towards a malaria vaccine'. The Editorial welcomes the vaccin ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 22, 2010 |
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New malaria vaccine is safe and protective in children, scientists find
A new vaccine to prevent the deadly malaria infection has shown promise to protect the most vulnerable patients — young children — against the disease, according to an international team of researchers led by the University ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 04, 2010 |
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Gates makes $10 billion vaccines pledge
(AP) -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will donate $10 billion over the next decade to research new vaccines and bring them to the world's poorest countries, the Microsoft co-founder and his wife said ...
Jan 29, 2010 |
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UCF professor's vaccine could be lethal weapon against malaria, cholera
Mankind may finally have a weapon to fight two of the world's deadliest diseases.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jan 26, 2010 |
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First steps taken toward the development of a malaria transmission-blocking vaccine
The PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative (MVI) today announced a new collaboration to initiate development toward a vaccine that may eventually help eliminate and eradicate malaria. This collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 15, 2010 |
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WHO to send swine flu vaccine to poor countries
(AP) -- The World Health Organization plans to start shipping swine flu vaccine to Azerbaijan, Afghanistan and Mongolia in the next few weeks, flu chief Keiji Fukuda said Thursday.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 17, 2009 |
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Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes
(AP) -- Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 17, 2009 |
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Drug industry, nonprofits join forces to fight world's neglected diseases
Drug companies and nonprofit organizations are joining forces to develop new drugs and vaccines to target so-called "neglected" diseases that claim millions of lives in the developing world each year. Those hard-to-treat ...
Nov 11, 2009 |
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World's largest malaria vaccine trial now underway in 7 African countries
A pivotal efficacy trial of RTS,S, the world's most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate, is now underway in seven African countries: Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania. The trial, ...
Medicine & Health / Medications
Nov 03, 2009 |
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