Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Data analyses back Sanofi dengue vaccine: study
A dengue vaccine candidate by French drugmaker Sanofi protects more than three quarters of participants, an analysis found Monday.
Jul 28, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Diagnostic errors linked to high incidence of incorrect antibiotic use
New research finds that misdiagnoses lead to increased risk of incorrect antibiotic use, threatening patient outcomes and antimicrobial efficacy, while increasing healthcare costs. The study was published online today in ...
May 18, 2015
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Surgery
Delays from pain diagnosis to SCS treatment result in higher health-care use post-implantation
Winner of the William H. Sweet Young Investigators Award, Frank William Petraglia III, presented his research on the relationship between the efficacy of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) to block pains signals and the amount ...
May 11, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Subunit vaccine efficacious against herpes zoster
(HealthDay)—A subunit vaccine containing varicella-zoster virus glycoprotein E and the AS01B adjuvant system (HZ/su) is efficacious against herpes zoster infection in older adults, according to a study published online ...
Apr 30, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Final trial results of the world's most advanced malaria vaccine announced
The first malaria vaccine candidate (RTS,S/AS01) to reach phase 3 clinical testing is partially effective against clinical disease in young African children up to 4 years after vaccination, according to final trial data, ...
Apr 24, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Know your enemy: Combating whooping cough requires informed vaccine booster schedules
A key to victory in battle, according to Chinese general and military strategist Sun Tzu, is to know your enemy. In the current fight against whooping cough resurgence, perhaps the biggest obstacle is an incomplete understanding ...
Jan 19, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Common treatment of certain autoimmune disease does not appear effective
Among patients with the systemic autoimmune disease primary Sjögren syndrome, use of hydroxychloroquine, the most frequently prescribed treatment for the disorder, did not improve symptoms during 24 weeks of treatment compared ...
Jul 15, 2014
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Medications
Brief laser-light treatment may significantly improve effectiveness of influenza vaccines
Pretreating the site of intradermal vaccination – vaccine delivered into the skin rather than to muscles beneath the skin – with a particular wavelength of laser light may substantially improve vaccine effectiveness without ...
Dec 11, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Malaria vaccine candidate reduces disease over 18 months of follow-up in phase 3 children's study
Results from a large-scale Phase III trial, presented today in Durban, show that the most clinically advanced malaria vaccine candidate, RTS,S, continued to protect young children and infants from clinical malaria up to 18 ...
Oct 7, 2013
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HIV & AIDS
Experts urge renewed push on US-Thai HIV vaccine
Health experts on Thursday called for trials of an HIV vaccine under development in Thailand to be speeded up following recent setbacks in other efforts to end the AIDS epidemic.
Aug 29, 2013
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