Health
Food allergies & Thanksgiving dinner can mix, just follow these tips
When loved ones come together for your Thanksgiving feast, keep in mind your those who have food allergies.
Nov 21, 2022
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News tagged with chicken eggs
Immunology
Vaccines grown in eggs induce antibody response against an egg-associated glycan
Over years of studying antibody responses against the flu in the Wilson lab at the University of Chicago, researchers kept coming up with a strange finding: antibodies that seemed to bind not only to the flu virus, but to ...
Jul 2, 2021
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Health
National warning on backyard chooks after salmonella outbreaks
The Food Safety Information Council today issued a national warning to people with backyard chickens to always wash their hands after handling the chickens or their eggs following salmonellosis outbreaks in Victoria and Queensland.
Jul 9, 2020
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Vaccination
Health officials: It's time to give flu vaccine another shot
The flu forecast is cloudy and it's too soon to know if the U.S. is in for a third miserable season in a row, but health officials said Thursday not to delay vaccination.
Sep 26, 2019
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Health
Backyard chickens and the risk of lead exposure
When Teresa McGowan and her husband first bought their Somerville, Massachusetts, home in 2004, one of the first things they did was test the soil in their yard for lead. It was a recommendation from local gardeners, who ...
May 30, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
A major step towards individualized cancer therapy
Fuyuhiko Tamanoi of Kyoto University's Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) and colleagues in the U.S. succeeded in establishing a powerful and convenient model to analyse human cancer.
Jun 4, 2018
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
H3N2 mutation in last year's flu vaccine responsible for lowered efficacy
The low efficacy of last year's influenza vaccine can be attributed to a mutation in the H3N2 strain of the virus, a new study reports. Due to the mutation, most people receiving the egg-grown vaccine did not have immunity ...
Nov 6, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
How flu shot manufacturing forces influenza to mutate
According to a new study from scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), the common practice of growing influenza vaccine components in chicken eggs disrupts the major antibody target site on the virus surface, ...
Oct 30, 2017
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Dutch egg probe widens to chicken meat tests
In a new twist in Europe's tainted egg scandal, Dutch authorities announced Tuesday they had started testing chicken meat coming from affected poultry farms to determine whether it was also contaminated.
Aug 8, 2017
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Medical research
New vaccine production could improve flu shot accuracy
A new way of producing the seasonal flu vaccine could speed up the process and provide better protection against infection.
Jul 24, 2017
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