News tagged with journal of immunotherapy


Study demonstrates that once-a-day pill offers relief from ragweed allergy symptoms

An international team of researchers, led by physician-scientists at Johns Hopkins, reports that a once-daily tablet containing a high dose of a key ragweed pollen protein effectively blocks the runny noses, sneezes, nasal ...

Immunology created May 07, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mouse model exposes a new type of T cell to target melanoma

Cancers arise in the body all the time. Most are nipped in the bud by the immune response, not least by its T cells, which detect telltale molecular markers—or antigens—on cancer cells and destroy them before they grow ...

Cancer created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Oral immunotherapy shows promise as treatment for children with egg allergy

A team of researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine and four other institutions have found that young children with egg allergies can benefit from treatment with oral immunotherapy.

Immunology created Jul 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers find success with new immune approach to fighting some cancers

A national research collaboration of senior researchers, including a researcher from Moffitt Cancer Center, has found that 20 to 25 percent of "heavily pre-treated" patients with a variety of cancers who enrolled in a clinical ...

Cancer created Jun 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Delivery system for gene therapy may help treat arthritis

A DNA-covered submicroscopic bead used to deliver genes or drugs directly into cells to treat disease appears to have therapeutic value just by showing up, researchers report.

Immunology created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Four-week vaccination regimen knocks out early breast cancer tumors, researchers find

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report that a short course of vaccination with an anti-HER2 dendritic cell vaccine made partly from the patient's own cells triggers a complete ...

Cancer created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new cat in adulthood can up your allergy risk

(Medical Xpress) -- According to a new study published in The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, getting a cat for the first time as an adult can nearly double your chances of developing allergies to the ...

Health created Dec 28, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Novel therapy improves immune function in teen with rare disease

In a novel approach that works around the gene defect in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, an inherited immune deficiency disorder, researchers used an alternative cell signaling pathway to significantly improve immune function in ...

Medical research created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0