Oncology & Cancer
Preventing cervical cancer
Silent but deadly. These are words often used to describe cervical cancer—a slow-growing disease that rarely causes symptoms in its early stages.
Jan 5, 2023
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HIV & AIDS
COVID vaccines also help protect HIV patients
People infected with HIV who receive antiretroviral therapy form antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 after being vaccinated against COVID with mRNA vaccines. Their immune response to the vaccination is, however, less strong than ...
Dec 9, 2022
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Immunology
Scientists confirm smallpox vaccine also teaches T cells to fight mpox
There's even more reason to think a vaccine developed against smallpox can help the body fight against mpox (monkeypox virus disease) as well, according to researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI). Their new ...
Dec 7, 2022
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HIV & AIDS
Clinical trial shows promising results for inciting production of neutralizing antibodies in HIV vaccine
A large team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions across the U.S., working with two colleagues from Sweden, reports promising results in a phase I clinical trial aimed at testing the efficacy and safety of ...
HIV & AIDS
Scientists may be closer to effective HIV vaccine
It's thought that for an HIV vaccine to be widely effective, it will have to spur the body to make special antibodies that can neutralize a broad range of HIV strains. Now scientists say they have taken an essential step ...
Dec 2, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists find dramatic rise in anal cancer in Midwest and Southeast
South Carolina is seeing one of the fastest rises in anal cancer incidence among women and anal cancer mortality among men, according to a study published Nov. 28 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, led by MUSC Hollings ...
Nov 28, 2022
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HIV & AIDS
Therapeutic HIV vaccine achieves encouraging results
A phase I/IIa clinical trial that the University of Oxford collaborated on has demonstrated that a T-cell therapeutic HIV vaccine was associated with better control of the virus rebound when antiretroviral therapy (ART) was ...
Nov 4, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Monkeypox: High vaccine acceptance among users of European gay-dating apps
The ongoing global monkeypox outbreak is mainly affecting gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in countries where the virus has previously not been endemic. One approach to control the outbreak could be ...
Oct 20, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Infections reported after single dose of monkeypox vaccine
Most cases of monkeypox that occur after vaccination with the modified Vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordic vaccine (MVA-BN) occur within 14 days of receipt of the first dose, according to a research letter published online Sept. ...
Oct 4, 2022
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HIV & AIDS
Scientists design and validate promising HIV vaccine strategy
Scientists at Scripps Research, IAVI, the Ragon Institute and Moderna, Inc., have come together to make critical advances in developing an effective vaccine against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
Oct 3, 2022
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