Archive for the ‘Immune System / Vaccines’ Category
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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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
In an editorial commentary(1) in the current issue of The Journal of Infectious Diseases (JID), independent experts on cytomegalovirus (CMV) said the vaccine under development by Vical Incorporated (Nasdaq: VICL), at the optimal dose and regimen tested, "holds promise" based on its ability to elicit persistent immune responses in ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
Researchers examined whether the work of community-based intervention increased interest in influenza vaccination among hard-to-reach individuals in urban settings. Intervention activities were conducted in eight racially and ethnically diverse and economically disadvantaged locations in East Harlem and the Bronx. "Hard-to-reach" populations of interest included substance abusers, possible undocumented immigrants, homeless ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
A review published in this week's The Lancet claimsthat induced hypothermia is underused in the UK and in the USA. Thispractice of deliberately cooling the body is capable of preventing orlimiting permanent injuries if it is employed within the first couplehours of a clinical event.Dr Kees Polderman (University Medical Center ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
One child in five in England is still without protection from pneumococcal disease through missing their booster dose, with one in ten missing their primary vaccination, despite the inclusion of the pneumococcal vaccination into the UK national schedule in September 2007.1 These ...
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Saturday, June 7th, 2008
University of Queensland researcher Professor Mark Kendall has been awarded the 2008 Amgen Medical Research Award for his excellence in translational medical research studies. This national award is made annually by the Australian Society for Medical Research as part of Medical Research Week. Professor Kendall leads a research ...
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008
High living standards and the life style connected to them seem to promote the development of autoimmune diseases and allergic symptoms. This has lead to the assumption that the immune system begins to overreact to the organism's own structures or to exogenous non-infectious proteins, i.e. allergens, when it does not ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (Amex: SVA), a leading provider of vaccines in China, announced that the Ministry of Health has purchased approximately RMB 20 million (US$2.86 million) of the Company's inactivated hepatitis A vaccine, Healive(R), to vaccinate people living in the disaster zone following the May 12th earthquake. ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Yale University researchers have determined how a key component of many vaccines activates an immune system response, a finding that opens up promising new avenues of research on better ways to prevent infections.A team of scientists led by Stephanie C. Eisenbarth and Richard A. Flavell of the departments of immunobiology ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Advocates and researchers at a panel discussion on Thursday called for an increase in funding for and a renewal of efforts to develop an HIV/AIDS vaccine, CQ HealthBeat reports. Panelists at the forum, which was sponsored by the Caucus for Evidence-Based Prevention and the AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition, said that ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
eFoodSafety.com, Inc. applauds the European Commission's marketing authorization in the European Union of GlaxoSmithKline's ("GSK") H5N1 pre-pandemic bird flu vaccine Prepandrix™. eFoodSafety, which is also dedicated to developing solutions aimed at combating the virulent H5N1 strain of bird flu, commends the European Commission for raising global awareness of the influenza ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
In an online paper in the journal Nature, Yale University researchers funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, explain how a common ingredient in many vaccines stimulates and interacts with the immune system to help provide protection against infectious ...
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