Sentences with phrase «as vaccine studies»

The immunological benefits from the wild mice's gut bacteria may, in part, explain a persistent problem in disease research: Why disease experiments in lab mice, such as vaccine studies, turn out very differently in humans or other animals.

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Harpal Kumar, Cancer Research UK's chief executive, said: «As someone with an ethnic minority background myself and as a parent, this study highlights a very worrying reason why girls from some minority groups don't get the HPV vaccinAs someone with an ethnic minority background myself and as a parent, this study highlights a very worrying reason why girls from some minority groups don't get the HPV vaccinas a parent, this study highlights a very worrying reason why girls from some minority groups don't get the HPV vaccine.

The latest study is the most thorough large - scale study to date of the risk of febrile seizures following inoculation with the DTaP - IPV - Hib vaccine, which protects against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (whooping cough), as well as polio and Haemophilus influenzae type b.

Protection against the disease pertussis, or whooping cough, doesn't appear to be as strong with the currently administered vaccine when compared with the older version administered up until the 1990s, according to a new study in Pediatrics.

As part of their study, the researchers collected tweets that mentioned measles - mumps - rubella vaccine and classified their sentiment using artificial intelligence computer programs.

A multi-institutional study, as reported in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, shows that mandatory flu vaccines for healthcare workers improve vaccination rates by as much as 30 percent and reduce absenteeism during critical periods by about six percent.

«It's a novel strategy, and it works beautifully,» said senior investigator Harvey M. Friedman, MD, a professor of Infectious Diseases at Penn. «I know of no other HSV2 vaccine candidate with published results that are as promising as this study.»

Findings from this study of flu vaccines delivered by a small needle intradermally parallel earlier results that found adding a strain of influenza B could improve the effectiveness of a flu vaccine nasal spray and a traditional intramuscular vaccine that is injected as a shot in the arm muscle.

Vaccines are successful in preventing pandemic flu and reducing the number of patients hospitalised as a result of the illness, a study led by academics at The University of Nottingham has found.

The organization supports vaccine - related research, and Singer knew that her bosses would expect her to vote for more studies of vaccines as a possible cause of the condition.

In addition to a comprehensive study of their use in vaccines, this article summarizes the benefits and challenges associated with the use of these polymer systems as adjuvants.

The nursing homes in the study were randomly assigned to one of two groups as a care standard for influenza prevention, with either the regular dose of the influenza vaccine or the high dose vaccine as the care standard for their residents age 65 and older.

Scientists have moved closer to developing a universal flu vaccine after using the 2009 pandemic as a natural experiment to study why some people seem to resist severe illness.

The results from the study could be used to help public health officials to plan a more effective response to future pandemics, such as rolling out vaccines at a much earlier time and targeting specific types of vaccines at different age groups.

Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for studies of human diseases, therapies and vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.

«We are pleased to have demonstrated such a potent and durable immune response to the vaccine,» said the study's lead author, Sita Awasthi, PhD, a research associate professor of Infectious Diseases at Penn. «If found effective in clinical trials, the vaccine will have a huge impact on reducing the overall prevalence of genital herpes infections and could reduce new HIV infections as well, especially in high - burden regions of sub-Saharan Africa.»

Ding's next goal is to raise $ 5 million so he can spend about five years studying new vaccines for human pathogens such as dengue fever.

«Now that we know the mice can be vulnerable to Zika infection, we can use the animals to test vaccines and therapeutics — and some of those studies are already underway — as well as to understand the pathogenesis of the virus,» said senior author Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at Washington University.

«From what we have seen in this small preliminary study in young children, this experimental vaccine is working as we hoped it would.»

For example, in our film we took Brian, who studies risk, to a football game where he used the stadium as a metaphor to show how extremely rare vaccine - related injuries really are.

Vaccination with the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine - 7 [PCV7 — a vaccine that covers 7 strains (serotypes) of Streptococcus pneumoniae] is linked to overall decreases in the rate of serious infections caused by this bacterium, such as pneumonia and meningitis, referred to as invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD)-RSB-, but small increases in IPD caused by serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae not covered by the vaccine (referred to as non-vaccine type IPD), according to a study published in PLOS Medicine this week.

A new flu vaccine sprayed into the nose may be just as good as a shot in the arm, according to a study in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.

For instance, people who insist that vaccines cause autism may point to the known dangers of mercury as evidence, even though mercury is no longer a component of most vaccines, and studies have found no link between vaccines and autism.

As part of the study, groups of 18 to 20 female mice were vaccinated with one of the vaccines or a placebo, and some animals received a second dose of the same vaccine or placebo a month later.

A group from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) evaluated the live imaging system as a potential alternative to traditional methods of assessing investigative influenza vaccines and treatment in mice, which can be time consuming and require more study animals for valid statistical comparison.

While the effect of vaccines was not analyzed as part of this study, Rzhetsky notes that the geographic clustering of autism and ID rates is evidence that if vaccines have a role, it's a very weak one as vaccinations are given uniformly across the US.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

Recent studies have shown that locally made Chinese vaccines are less effective than imported versions, which cost five to 10 times as much.

In their new study, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Imperial College London and the University of Florida re-analyzed data from vaccine trials conducted in 10 countries with more than 30,000 participants as well as recently published data on the long - term follow - up of these participants.

For the near term, groups known as accelerated development and introduction plans (ADIPs) have studied the possibility of more rapidly introducing new vaccines for rotavirus, a common diarrheal disease, and pneumococcus, a bacterium that causes pneumonia.

Unpredictable demand creates a three - way catch - 22 problem, as pointed out in a 2002 study commissioned by the GAVI Alliance, formerly the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization.

Studies in patients suggest these systems have potential as therapies and as vaccines

DNA vaccines have been studied in animal models of viral, bacterial, and parasitic disease, as well as animal models of tumors.

A recent study on 749 men in Brazil showed that a 46-fold diluted vaccine triggered the same antibody response as a full dose.

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Also, he says, the study shows that high - risk groups, such as researchers and lab technicians working with West Nile, should consider getting a JE shot as long as there's no specific West Nile vaccine.

But a new animal study shows that the vaccine performs much better when given intravenously instead of into the skin, as it was in the clinical trial.

Thus, as Americans have expanded their sexual repertoire, as an October study from The Journal of Sexual Medicine highlighted, prevalence of HPV can sweep quickly through a population — especially one that is unprotected by a vaccine or consistent condom use.

An Australian study recently reported that kids who were given the acellular vaccine as infants were more than three times as likely to get pertussis between 2009 and 2011 than were those who received the whole - cell version.

Since the outbreak exploded in August, researchers have vigorously debated how to set up Ebola drug and vaccine studies, with some advocating randomized controlled studies, in which one group of patients doesn't receive the drug, as the quickest way to get results.

In a previous study, investigators at the Cancer Institute showed that using a vaccine treatment for bladder and breast cancer tumors in laboratory models resulted in a reversal of the traditional immune blockade, as well as the development of tumor specific immunity throughout the body.

One gene produces a protein known to help the parasite infect red blood cells and is already under study as a target for a vaccine.

«Taken together, these two studies suggest that the new scalable vaccine formulation is likely to prove as effective as the original formulation — which would make it the first protective TB vaccine in humans since BCG, which was introduced almost a century ago,» said Professor Ajit Lalvani, Director of the Tuberculosis Research Centre, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and a member of the DAR - 901 development team.

The bacterium that causes whooping cough, Bordetella pertussis, has changed in Australia — most likely in response to the vaccine used to prevent the disease — with a possible reduced effectiveness of the vaccine as a result, a new study shows.

«Instead of administering a cancer vaccine to destroy tumors, we hope to modify the immune system to allow the patient's own tumor to act as a cancer vaccine,» said Hyung Lae Kim, MD, co-medical director of the Urologic Oncology Program and lead author of the study.

As a next step, Kurtis's group is conducting a study of the vaccine in nonhuman primates.

He said that prior research has shown that it is very hard to completely debunk misinformation, such as the mistaken belief that the MMR vaccine causes autism, but the study results suggest that accurately communicating about the risks of Zika can help lessen the detrimental effects of the misbelief.

The fog around the largest AIDS vaccine study ever conducted began to lift today, as Thai and U.S. researchers for the first time publicly presented a detailed analysis of their data to over 1000 scientists gathered here at an annual meeting.

Thus, this study has implications for analysis of human vaccine studies, as in addition to searching for defined lineages it is worthwhile to perform functional analysis of monoclonal antibodies that may have found new structural solutions to high affinity binding which can not be discerned from DNA sequence alone.

WHO today issued a «donor alert,» urgently requesting a 6 - month budget of $ 10.5 million to support the vaccine study (which may require 5000 doses), as well as surveillance, treatment, and conventional prevention and control efforts.