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A team of scientists have investigated a case of vaccine-associated chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and macrophagic myofasciitis in an individual demonstrating aluminium overload. This is the first report linking aluminium overload with either of the two conditions and the possibility is considered that the coincident aluminium overload contributed significantly to ...
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The Alabama Department of Public Health encourages the public to get their flu shots. Contact your local health care provider or county health department to ask about influenza vaccination. "An ample supply of influenza vaccine remains available this season," said Dr. Donald Williamson, state health officer. "Influenza usually peaks during ...
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Cancer patients - with their weakened immune systems - are particularly vulnerable when the cold and flu season hits. To help, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) is sponsoring a landmark trial to see whether a unique Canadian cold remedy - COLD-FX - can help....
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Latest results from a clinical trial of Gardisal™, the Australian developed vaccine for human papilloma virus, add to the growing weight of opinion that the Government should extend its funding of the vaccine to boys. The research was presented today (18/11) to the Clinical Oncolgoical Society of Australia Annual Scientific ...
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In a November 16 advance online publication of the journal Nature, the researchers say their discovery revamps common beliefs about how such potentially lethal infections may be ravaging the brain and suggests the possibility of new treatments. "This is a paradigm shift in how we think about some forms of ...
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A cost-effectiveness analysis of Insite, Canada's only supervised safe injection site in Vancouver, concludes that it results in $14 million in savings and health gains of 920 life-years over 10 years. The study, published in CMAJ, estimated the number of HIV and Hepatitis C cases that could be prevented with ...
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Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) is a disease of the B lymphocytes of the immune system. Under normal conditions, B lymphocytes (or B cells) play an important role in battling infection. CLL is a disease manifested by uncontrolled growth of these B lymphocytes. In this month's issue of...
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GeneThera, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GTHR), released information about its E.Coli O157:H7 vaccine. The vaccine consists of Live Attenuated Bacterial Vaccine to Reduce or Inhibit Carriage and Shedding of Enterohemorrihagic Escherichia Coli in Cattle. This vaccine was developed for use against Shiga toxin-producing E.Coli (STEC) in cattle. This strategy is to ...
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The four-type (6,11,16,18) human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine Gardasil® is also effective in men according to the primary analysis from a pivotal phase III clinical study. In previously uninfected men aged 16 to 26 years*, Gardasil® prevented 90% (95%CI: 69, 98) of external genital lesions caused by HPV types 6, 11, ...
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Propelled by advances in molecular biology, the treatment of colorectal cancer is on the verge of dramatic change and a promising future as innovative vaccines will replace chemotherapy. According to a new report from Kalorama Information, "Cancer Vaccines: Market Forecasts, New Developments and Pipeline Analysis," this market, lead by OncoVAX, ...
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DelSite Inc., (OTCBB: DSII) today announced Dr. Yawei Ni, chief scientific officer, of its wholly-owned subsidiary, DelSite Biotechnologies, Inc., presented its innovative GelVac(TM) nasal powder platform for vaccine delivery and the synthetic typhoid vaccine at the 2nd Vaccines Asia Conference held November 10-13, 2008, in Beijing, China. Dr....
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Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI) has released a statement by its Vice President and Director of Programs Dr....
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Information about vaccination against the virus that causes cervical cancer could encourage rather than discourage women to attend for cervical screening, a new survey has found.1 A number of commentators have said that vaccinating women against the human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer, could make them complacent about attending ...
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The failure of the latest HIV vaccine from Merck is analysed in two Articles and a Comment published early Online and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet. The vaccine failed to give any protection from HIV infection, and the usefulness of non-human models for HIV vaccine development have been ...
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GARDASIL® [Human Papillomavirus Quadrivalent (Types 6, 11, 16, and 18) Vaccine, Recombinant], the cervical cancer vaccine from Merck & Co., Inc., prevented 90 percent of external genital lesions caused by human papillomavirus (HPV) types 6, 11, 16 and 18 in a pivotal Phase III study in men aged 16 to ...
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A new research study underway at Cardiff University could see a decrease in the rates of treatment failure among patients with end-stage kidney disease....
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CEL-SCI Corporation (NYSE: CVM) announced the presentation of new rheumatoid arthritis data at the 6th annual GTCbio Vaccine Conference in Vienna, Va. The data, presented by Dr. Daniel Zimmerman, Senior Vice President of Research, Cellular Immunology of CEL-SCI, indicate that CEL-SCI's rheumatoid arthritis treatment vaccine CEL-2000 prevents or retards the ...
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The American immunologist Dr. William E. Paul has received the Max Delbrück Medal in Berlin. The jury honored the researcher for his work on a key regulator of the immune system, interleukin 4 (IL-4). Dr. Paul works at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the National ...
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Walter J. Lukiw, PhD, Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Ophthalmology at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, is the lead author of a paper identifying, for the first time, a specific function of a fragment of ribonucleic acid (RNA), once thought to be no more than a byproduct, in regulating ...
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A new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, adds to the evidence that vitamin C supplements can lower concentrations of C-reactive protein (CRP), a central biomarker of inflammation that has been shown to be a powerful predictor of heart disease and diabetes. The same study found ...
