Sentences with phrase «effective safer vaccines»

Over the years, since I entered the profession in the early 70's more effective safer vaccines have been developed against these diseases and they have been widely used to a point where most pets have been vaccinated to at least some degree.

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Yes, although most of the time when your baby has a low fever or a mild cold, it's still safe and effective to get the vaccine.
The Vaccine - Friendly Plan: Dr. Paul's Safe and Effective Approach to Immunity and Health - from Pregnancy Through Your Child's Teen Years
Many studies have been conducted and the results consistently show that the flu vaccine is safe and effective for children.
A vaccine against rotavirus, a highly contagious bug that causes life - threatening diarrhea in young children, was deemed safe and effective by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel on Friday.
The team claims its work, funded by Tonix, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, could lead to a safer, more effective vaccine against smallpox.
A virus closer to Jenner's vaccine might be safer and more effective, he argues.
An interdisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Profectus BioSciences, Inc. has developed a quick - acting vaccine that is both safe and effective with a single dose against the Ebola strain that killed thousands of people in West Africa last year.
He pointed to the sudden rise in share prices for pharmaceutical firms working on Ebola vaccines as one type of economic spur to ensure that medicines are there in an emergency, along with WHO's capacity to «prequalify» drugs as safe and effective so that they can be sold more cheaply and widely.
The concern was that researchers have tested other vaccines given to children beforehand, to ensure that they're both safe and effective, but the anthrax vaccine never has been given to children.
Yet in the absence of a safe and effective vaccine, the only way to end the epidemic is to quickly identify and quarantine people who have been infected.
Since then, scientists have been racing to create a safe and effective vaccine.
«Single dose Ebola vaccine is safe, effective in monkeys against outbreak strain: VSV - EBOV appears to trigger innate, adaptive immunity.»
«If this research is borne out in future studies, we could be less than a decade away from a safe and effective live - attenuated vaccine for RSV.»
Equipped with this deeper understanding, researchers are trying to make allergy vaccines safer and more effective by designing them to micromanage the allergic immune response.
The study did not look at whether the vaccines are safe and effective for use during pregnancy.
The idea of using messenger RNA molecules as vaccines has been around for about 30 years, but one of the major obstacles has been finding a safe and effective way to deliver them.
But these limitations could one day be overcome thanks to a push to replace one - size - fits - all vaccines with genetically «personalized» immunizations that are safe and effective for everyone.
If the vaccine also proves safe and effective in subsequent tests in humans, it might be possible to mount a containment strategy similar to that used in the past against smallpox.
The final piece of the puzzle is producing a safe, widely available, and effective rabies vaccine for people like the grandfather in Guizhou.
In the West, these have been replaced by safer, more effective vaccines grown in cell cultures.
«Taken together, our findings provide substantial optimism that the development of a safe and effective Zika vaccine for humans will likely be feasible,» they write.
Since 2000, however, an updated version of the Salk vaccine, safer than the Sabin version, has been the only one given in the U.S. to prevent polio: it is 99 percent effective after three doses.
Zika virus infection during pregnancy can result in microcephaly and other serious birth defects in the fetus, making the development of a safe and effective vaccine a global health priority.
He says that a vaccine like this one could be on the market as soon as it proved effective and safe.
«We know that vaccines are very safe and effective, but vaccine injury does occur,» Halabi said.
«In exploring why some parents do not have their child get the flu vaccine, we found that many parents do not believe that flu vaccine is as safe, effective or important as the other vaccines their children receive.»
«These findings clearly point to the very important role that health care providers can play in increasing coverage with this safe and effective vaccine,» said lead author Linda M. Niccolai, Ph.D., associate professor in the school's Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and member of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program of the Yale Cancer Center.
Candidate vaccines against Ebola or malaria — one of which recently received an important stamp of approval in Europe — should definitely be used if they are safe and effective, he says, but they could lead to more virulent pathogens.
Ultimately, we believe, the only guarantee of a sustained end of the AIDS pandemic lies in a combination of nonvaccine prevention methods and the development and deployment of a safe and sufficiently effective HIV vaccine
In one of the greatest moments in modern medical science, American microbiologist Jonas Salk on 12 April 1955 pronounced his newly invented polio vaccine safe and effective in almost 90 % of cases.
However, a safe and at least moderately effective HIV vaccine is needed to reach this goal more expeditiously and in a more sustainable way, according to a new commentary from Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and colleague Hilary D. Marston, M.D., M.P.H.
Safe and effective vaccines could help end the ongoing Ebola virus disease epidemic in parts of West Africa and stop future outbreaks of the virus.
The largest corporate - funded medical trials in history indicate that two new vaccines against rotavirus, a leading cause of childhood mortality worldwide, are both effective and safe.
The vaccine, a DNA vaccine, is safer and more effective against Zika virus and could offer more affordable long - term protection, researchers said.
Dr Gambhir said the team looked at whether a randomized control trial (RCT)-- where all people in the population have the same chance of being selected; or a stepped - wedge cluster trial design — which would give vaccine to healthcare workers and eventually treat all of them — is most safe and effective in evaluating a vaccine.
Dr Gambhir said the team found the best way of detecting an effective and safe vaccine was to use a modified, randomized control trial.
Dr Gambhir said Ebola has claimed the lives of more than 10,000 people, and whilst the epidemic was now receding, the search for a safe and effective vaccine remains crucial.
PHILADELPHIA --(April 19, 2018)-- The Wistar Institute and partners at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, and GeneOne Life Science were recognized among the Top 10 Clinical Research Achievement Awards by the Clinical Research Forum for their ground - breaking phase 1 DNA - based Zika vaccine research — the first trial of a Zika vaccine in humans, which proved safe and effective.
A safe and effective Zika vaccine that prevents infection in those at risk is a global public health priority,» said Maj. Leyi Lin, principal investigator of the study.
In order to facilitate access to these skills and capacities, and to promote collaborations in the European vaccine landscape - aiming thereby to accelerate the development of safe, effective and affordable vaccines - the EC, in the context of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, has recently funded «TRANSVAC2», a European vaccine research and development (R&D) infrastructure.
Vaccines are amongst the safest and most cost - effective measures that we have to improve public health and protect from disease and it is vital that we achieve high vaccination rates to prevent the return of the many and terrible diseases that they prevent,» he said.
The HVTN's mission is to fully characterize the safety, immunogenicity, and efficacy of HIV vaccine candidates with the goal of developing a safe, effective vaccine as rapidly as possible for prevention of HIV infections globally.
The development of a safe and effective vaccine takes many years and needs to go through many different stages of testing, including work on cells, testing on animals and finally clinical trials on humans.
He laboratory is also developing effective and safe Brucella vaccines with an aim for eventual human use.
«The two greatest challenges remaining in HIV / AIDS research are finding a cure and developing a safe and effective preventive vaccine,» said Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is leading the vaccine trial.
«The standard vaccines that are in current use are safe and effective, and not prone to cause the emergence of more dangerous strains of viruses.
May 18 — HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (HVAD)-- is an annual observance to recognize and thank the thousands of volunteers, community members, health professionals, and scientists who are working together to find a safe and effective HIV vVaccine Awareness Day (HVAD)-- is an annual observance to recognize and thank the thousands of volunteers, community members, health professionals, and scientists who are working together to find a safe and effective HIV vaccinevaccine.
A safe and effective malaria vaccine would be a major addition to current malaria control tools and could reinforce hope for malaria eradication.
In 2009, the RV144 Thai vaccine trial provided the first evidence in humans that a safe and effective preventive HIV vaccine is possible.
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