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HIV antibodies that are worth the wait

An effective vaccine against HIV-1 remains elusive, but one promising strategy focuses on designer antibodies that have much broader potency than most normal, exquisitely specific antibodies. These broadly ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 28, 2013 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Flu vaccine rates in children remain lower than expected

This year's flu season is in full swing with 41 states now reporting widespread illness.

Pediatrics created Jan 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Clinical trials for bacterial meningitis treatments are not keeping pace with the rise of resistance

New vaccines and drug treatments are urgently needed for bacterial meningitis, a devastating disease which kills or maims around a fifth of people who contract it, according to medical experts writing in a new Series on bacterial ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 08, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Kindergarten vaccines close to target levels: CDC

(HealthDay)—Most kindergarten children in the United States are up to date on their vaccinations, a new government report finds.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Test vaccine successfully protects monkeys from Nipah virus

Researchers have successfully tested in monkeys a vaccine against Nipah virus, a human pathogen that emerged in 1998 during a large outbreak of infection and disease among pigs and pig farmers in Southeast Asia. This latest ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Aug 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Building a better Rift Valley fever vaccine

University of Texas Medical Branch researchers have significantly improved an existing experimental vaccine for Rift Valley fever virus, making possible the development of a more effective defense against the dangerous mosquito-borne ...

Medical research created Jun 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers say step closer to meningitis B vaccine

Researchers said Monday they were a step closer to developing a vaccine against the type of meningitis that mostly affects Europe and North America and kills hundreds every year.

Medications created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WHO: Measles deaths have plummeted over a decade

The number of measles deaths worldwide has apparently dropped by about three-quarters over a decade, according to a new study by the World Health Organization and others.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Adjuvanted flu vaccine associated with child narcolepsy in Finland

A sudden increase in narcolepsy in Finnish children at the beginning of 2010 was likely related to the Pandemrix vaccine used in response to the H1N1 2009 flu pandemic, according to two reports published Mar. 28 in the open ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Whooping cough returns as vaccine modified to reduce side-effects

Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. - mostly babies and toddlers - were coming down with whooping cough each year when vaccines against "this menace," as one newspaper called it, were introduced in the 1930s and 1940s.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Measles outbreaks on the rise across Europe

(AP) -- After years of decline, measles is on the rise in Europe, according to a new report released Thursday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More kids skip school shots in 8 states

More parents are opting out of school shots for their kids. In eight states now, more than 1 in 20 public school kindergartners aren't getting all the vaccines required for attendance, an Associated Press ...

Health created Nov 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Researchers advocate national strategic approach to therapeutic cancer vaccines

Vaccines that save lives by preventing disease have been around for centuries. Now, new vaccines that treat cancer are being developed, but how they will be combined with existing treatments is not clear.

Cancer created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Shingles vaccine is associated with reduction in both postherpetic neuralgia and herpes zoster

Shingles vaccine is associated with reduction in both postherpetic neuralgia and herpes zoster, but uptake in the US is low.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 09, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Varicella vaccine has long-term effectiveness against chicken pox

Chicken pox, the childhood affliction of earlier generations, has been largely neutralized by the varicella vaccine, according to a new study by the Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center, which appears in the current online ...

Pediatrics created Apr 01, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0