News tagged with therapeutic vaccine

Scientists create vaccine against heroin high

Researchers at The Scripps Research Institute have developed a highly successful vaccine against a heroin high and have proven its therapeutic potential in animal models.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 20, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

New study identifies potential vaccine to prevent gastritis, ulcer disease, gastric cancer

A new study led by researchers at Rhode Island Hospital in collaboration with the University of Rhode Island (URI) and EpiVax. Inc, a privately owned vaccine development company in Providence, RI, has identified a potential ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New hope for melanoma patients

(PhysOrg.com) -- A therapy that multiplies the effect of a natural disease-fighting antibody has extended the lives of patients with metastatic melanoma in a large, international clinical trial. The study’s researchers will ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Major breakthrough may pave the way for therapeutic vaccines

It should be possible to use therapeutic vaccines to create both cheap and effective drugs for diseases like cancer and allergies. One problem in developing such vaccines has previously been the lack of adjuvants, substances ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Australia to begin vaccinating against swine flu

(AP) -- Australia approved a vaccine against swine flu Friday and said it would start administering the medicine this month its most at-risk citizens, including medical staff, pregnant women and the chronically ill.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Could therapeutic vaccines treat hard to beat breast cancers?

A comprehensive analysis of nearly 1,600 tumor samples has found that CT-X genes are expressed in nearly half the breast cancers that lack the estrogen receptor (ER). CT-X gene products are the targets of therapeutic cancer ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0