Archive for the ‘Immune System / Vaccines’ Category
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Recent scientific findings explain why patients with a rare immunodeficiency disorder are unusually susceptible to certain common infections. By revealing the exact molecular mechanisms involved, they also give us clues as to why some 'healthy' people are more prone to these infections than others, and suggest potential treatments. People ...
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Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Health care professionals should increase influenza immunization rates by implementing key, practice-proven interventions and offering vaccine at every opportunity throughout the entire influenza season, conclude leading influenza experts in a July 2008 supplement to The American Journal of Medicine. The experts assert that the medical community is not taking ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
A unique technique for analyzing the function of microRNAs developed by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem doctoral student has led to the discovery of a new mechanism by which viruses evade the human immune system. This discovery has important implications for human intervention in the battle between viruses and humans.For ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Protherics PLC "Protherics" or the "Company"), the international biopharmaceutical company focused on critical care and cancer, today announces that the first patient has been enrolled in a phase 2a study of its Angiotensin Therapeutic Vaccine (ATV) for the treatment of hypertension.Hypertension is a major risk factor for serious and common ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of sanofi-aventis Group, announced today the inauguration of a high-tech vaccine production facility in France to respond to soaring demand worldwide. This new 100 million euros facility located in Val de Reuil (North West of France) incorporates ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Take Care Health Systems, one of the largest managers of convenient care clinics and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Walgreens (NYSE, NASDAQ: WAG), is now administering the shingles vaccine at all 177 Take Care Health Clinics located at Walgreens drugstores in 19 markets throughout 14 states. By administering the shingles vaccine ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
The immune system of vertebrate animals consists of two components: the innate immune response, a constitutive system ready to respond to a pathogen, and the adaptive immune response, a system of immunological memory that responds to previously encountered pathogens. In a study led by Dr. Anlong Xu of Sun Yat-sen ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Vaccines are critical tools in the fight to prevent high-burden infectious diseases in all age groups living in both industrialized and developing countries. Vaccine and public health experts will gather in Paris to review the promise of and challenges related to today's vaccine research, what new products are expected and ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has been formally notified by Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics S.r.l. of its decision to withdraw the application for a centralised marketing authorisation for the pre-pandemic vaccine Aflunov (A/VietNam/1194/2004 (H5N1) virus surface inactivated antigen). Aflunov was expected to be used for active pre-pandemic immunization against ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
New target to enhance anticancer drug sensitivity found in translationThe development of resistance to anticancer chemotherapeutic agents remains a large problem. In some cases, such resistance is associated with altered control of a cellular process known as translation, which is central to the generation of proteins. New data, generated by ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) announced publication in the June 12, 2008 issue of The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) of data demonstrating Baxter's candidate avian influenza (H5N1) vaccine, CELVAPAN, met Phase I/II trial endpoints for safety and immunogenicity (generating a ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care has assessed recent evidence on allergies. It found that the once controversial immune therapy against allergy symptoms can definitely help many people with allergies. When it is green and the flowers have returned, the allergy season has hit its peak. ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
A detergent solution developed at The University of Texas at Austin that treats donor nerve grafts to circumvent an immune rejection response has been used to create acellular nerve grafts now used successfully in hospitals around the country. Research also shows early promise of the detergent solution having possible applications ...
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Saturday, June 14th, 2008
Researchers at the University of Oxford have discovered a series of new peptide molecules that have potential as treatments of inflammatory disorders, including endotoxic shock, inflammatory bowel disease, rheumatoid arthritis, uveitis and atherosclerosis. The peptides work by reducing the production of inflammatory cytokines, signaling proteins which play an important ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
Adequate vaccination advice to holidaymakers heading abroad for their summer holidays can help to avoid an unnecessary medico-legal claim, the Medical and Dental Defence Union of Scotland (MDDUS) urges today (Friday, 6 June 2008). A doctor who fails in his or her duty of care by neglecting to offer appropriate ...
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